Highlights:
- South Africa’s Dewald Brevis has top-scored in the ICC U-19 World Cup-2022.
- He is being nicknamed as ‘BABY AB De Villiers’.
- He has registered himself for Rs.20 lakh base price for IPL-2022 auction.
Indian Premier League (IPL)-2022:
The IPL-2022 is a fifteenth season and it is a professional T20 Cricket league established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. The fifteenth edition will see the expansion of the league, with the addition of two new franchises. In August 2021, the BCCI confirmed that two new franchises would join the IPL-2022 league. The new franchises names are Ahmedabad and Lucknow franchises. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) is the defending champions of last season.
Mega Auction of IPL-2022:
The mega auction for the IPL-2022 is to be held on February 12 and 13, 2022. The venue of the auction is Bengaluru. It will be a two-day event like the 2018 mega auction.
‘BABY AB De Villiers’ ready to rock in IPL-2022 Auction:
South African BABY AB de Villiers (Dewald Brevis) has won the Player of the tournament ICC U19 World Cup-2022. He is nicknamed as the “Baby AB de Villiers”- Brevis’s batting style resembles that of legendary AB de Villiers who is not part of the IPL 2022 Auction after announcing retirement from all forms of the game last year.