Exclusive News: 3 Debutants who could Steal the show in IPL in 2022 – The next Indian Premier League 2022 season, which will kick off on March 26 at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium. Several players making their INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE debuts. The lucrative league gives a stage for players to shine. And there have been numerous debutant success stories over the years. Other than international players like Dewald Brevis and Odean Smith, other cricketers from India’s World Cup-winning U-19 team will be trying to make an impression.
3 Debutants Who Could Steal the show in IPL in 2022
Here’s a look at three Indian Premier League 2022 debutants that could steal the show:
Raja Bawa:
Bawa had been in excellent form all through the competition. And he claimed Player of the Match for the five-wicket performance in the U-19 World Cup match. Punjab Kings (PBKS) acquired him for Rs 20 million. And he made 252 points in the U-19 World Cup, along with a century. As a fast bowler, he moved on to grab the ninth wickets in six games.
The career of Raja Bawa:
- When Chandigarh got BCCI membership, Raj Bawa’s family had moved from Gurugram to Chandigarh. And Raj joined the elite DAV Public School, where he switched from PCA to UTCA and has captained the team ever since.
- The BCCI nominated the hitting those, along with his colleague Harnoor Singh Pannu, a strong batter from Chandigarh, to the India U-19 lineup for the Asia Cup after he made 154 runs, along with a century, and grabbed eight wickets in the U-19 Challenger Trophy 2021.
- In four matches, Raj Bawa took 8 wickets at a 5.18 economy rate.
- Yash Dhull has named Raj Bawa to his ICC U19 World Cup 2022 side.
- In the contest’s first group stage match versus South Africa U19, Raj Bawa managed just 13 points with the batting, but he shined with the bowling, claiming four wickets.
- Between his four wickets are Dewald Brevis (65), SA skipper George Van Heerden (36), Andile Simelane (6), and then last wicket Aphiwe Mnyanda (5).
- On January 19, 2022, Raj Bawa hit 42 runs while going wicketless in a group stage match versus Ireland U19.
- In the game’s Quarter-Final 2 on January 29, 2022, Raj Bawa failed to score a single point and also failed to capitalize wickets. English Raghuvanshi carried the league to the tournament semifinals with his difficult 44 hits off 65 balls.
- On February 2, 2022, Raj Bawa didn’t get a destiny of batting in the Semi-Final 2 versus Australia U19, as he remained wicketless despite delivering 3.5 overs for 20 points.
- Raj Bawa wins his first five-wicket record of the season versus England in the finals of an ICC U19 World Cup 2022. In the game, he finished with 9.5 innings, 1 maiden, 31 hits, and 5 wickets.
Odean Smith:
After his performance in previous India against West Indies test series gained an amount of publicity. Smith got acquired by PBKS worth Rs 60 million. The West Indian player is indeed a capable batsman with good power-hitting skills, as well as a dangerous bowler.
Odean smith’s career:
- In December 2015, Smith got named to the West Indies side for the 2016 U19 Cricket World Cup.
- In March 2018, Smith was picked to the West Indies Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for a series against Pakistan. He got his T20I bow for the West Indies versus Pakistan on April 2, 2018.
- Smith has indeed been chosen for the West Indies One Day International (ODI) as well as Twenty20 International (T20I) teams for such November 2021 game versus Pakistan.
- In December 2021, he was named to the West Indies ODI squad for a game versus Ireland. He got his Professional debut for the West Indies versus Ireland on January 8, 2022.
Dewald Brevis:
During this year’s U-19 World Cup, Brevis blasted two centuries and three half-centuries for South Africa, emerging as the game’s leading run-scorer. Because of his hitting style’s proximity to that of AB de Villiers, and became dubbed ‘Baby AB.’In the mega extravaganza, he was acquired by Bombay Indians (MI) worth Rs 30 million.
Dewald Brevis’s Career
- In April 2021, People in the north recruited him before the South African county cricket year 2021–22.
- On October 8, 2021, he got his Twenty20 bow for the South Africa Under-19s in the CSA Regional T20 Blow tournament. In his 46 from 25 balls that same day, he hit two fours plus four sixes.
- On December 26 of that year, he got his Under-19 Debut appearance against the West Indies Under-19s. He got 14 runs in 25 deliveries and took three vital grounds in the match.
- He got selected to South Africa’s squad again for ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2022. Which will be held in the West Indies in November 2021.
- In the World Cup appearance versus India, Brevis achieved 65 points on 99 balls. Among some of the wickets he got were R Bawa and Vicky Ostwal.
- Dewald Brevis established the Guinness standard for the most points scored in one U19 World Cup match. Dewald Brevis hit 506 runs in the 2022 U19 World Cup. With 505 runs, Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan formerly held the world record.
Dewald Brevis’ INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE Career:
The Mumbai Indians, the 5 INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE champions, acquired Dewald Brevis for INR 30 million in the INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 2022 Super Event.
INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE Favorite Team of Dewald Brevis:
Dewald Brevis has expressed intention of playing for RCB there in INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE, naming AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli as some of his childhood heroes.
“My main ambition is to play for the Proteas, but because I am such a big fan of the INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE, I would want to play for RCB. Because AB (de Villiers) and (Virat) Kohli are both there,” Brevis said in a video posted on ICC.