New Delhi: Having grown up in Mohali, in a 2BHK apartment, Shubman Gill’s favorite pastime was to copy his childhood hero – Virat Kohli. He would try to imitate his walk, his cover motivation, his celebration, and even played most of his beginning of a career with a red handkerchief nestled his pants.About 8,782 kilometers from Mohali, Pretoria, in the backyard of Brevis, Dewald and his older brother Reinardt, wearing Virat Kohli and AB jerseys, Bengaluru (RCB), withdrawing a heist for RCB.Brevis had a trajectory similar to Gill. Like Gill, he was described as the next “prince”.Both hit a wall. The form deserted them, the criticisms came out with swords, but their heroes stood like rocks and continued to support them. In 2019, when Gill entered the Indian locker room in New Zealand, Kohli said: “I saw him beat in the nets and I said to myself” Wow – I was not even 10% of this when I was 19 years old. »»Likewise, Villiers also helped Brevis in its beginnings. “I have been his mentor for about two years now and I helped him with his striker and his attitude towards cricket,” Villiers said in Netwerk24 in 2022, when the youngster burst into the U19 World Cup scene.In the past two months, Gill, Prince Oint, has found his feet in test cricket, breaking 754 points in his first series of tests as captain. It was again Kohli who wrote a special message for his successor to n ° 4: “Well played Star Boy. Rewriting in history. Back and up here. You deserve all of this,” Kohli wrote after Gill marked a sublime 269 and 161 in Edgbaston.Likewise, earlier this week, when Brevis smoked a hundred bullets against Australia, from Villiers went Gung-Ho on the blow of his countryman and shot the IPL teams, saying: “The boy can play.”
What changed to Gill and Brevis?Before Shubman Gill was appointed captain of the India team, he wanted to prove himself in England. He practiced with the Red Dukes, worked on his trigger movement and asked for help from his father-tragic cricket Lakhwinder Singh Gill.Gill Sr. reminded the young person why he was such a prolific goalscorer at the age group and in the Ranji trophy, and asked him to “return to the bases”. A confident shubman even predicted that he wanted to be the best striker in the Anderson-Tendulkar trophy, and Boy, he traveled the speech.
Dewald Brevis with his childhood coach Deon Botes. (Special arrangement)
For Dewald Brevis, it was his childhood coach Deon Botes – who played a massive role in the development of several South African crickets, notably AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis.Botes, professor of economics and former director of sport at Afrikaans Hoër Sendskool, better known as affairs, explained how The Child Prodigy fought against its dark phase and returned it.“He returned to his bases. So I think that with the T20 game, he might have been a little technically released,” said Botes Timesofindia.com.
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“In the Cricket T20, the Power strike obviously plays a big role. And I think it is a little stuck with that. Playing a little more red ball cricket in the domestic league, I think, helped it just to refine its technique a little. So, it looks like the former Dewald Brevis that we knew.Brevis buyoutLast year, after Christmas, Brevis called Botes asking for help.“So, last year, on December 28, he returned to me and we worked for three days on his game. I went back to the basis, to what he was used to,” said Botes.“He just wanted to go back to the point, which we did. And we essentially gave him a clearer spirit of what he wanted to do. Many people talk to you and there is a lot of noise about you, and sometimes you lose a trace of what you really want to do and what works for you.
Dewald Brevis with coach Deon Botes at Afrikaans high school. (Special arrangement)
“So, he returned to me at the end of last year to return to his roots, return to the basics and to find him the right way to score. It was difficult, but we had a lot of conversations and a lot of sessions to cross.”When he was asked if playing too much T20 cricket had corrupted the Brevis technique, Botes said: “He really wanted to play cricket at the highest level and show his skills and capacities. So, I think it was never on this subject for him.“He just wanted to play and score races and be good. This is essentially everything. Somewhere in this process, he might have been a little confused about what he wanted to do. As I said, there is a lot of noise to play like that, with people who speak to him as a youngster. It is probably difficult for him to work who listen and who cannot listen to everyone.“”
Dewald Brevis of South Africa Bats in the T20 international cricket match between Australia and South Africa in Darwin, Australia, Tuesday August 12, 2025. (Jono Searle / Aapimage via AP)
BOTES feels that his neighborhood is ready to storm the three formats.“I think he can certainly play in the three formats for South Africa. He has already played in two of them. So it’s just the game 50 on which he has not yet made his debut, but I think it will come now.“Yes, I think he will succeed in the three. I think Dewald would really appreciate the long format, red ball cricket. And I think it is good enough to do it in the three formats,” he said.Make way for the next generationEach cricket lover lived this moment, standing in front of a mirror, trying to imitate the shot position of a hero or the graceful climb and the release. Most imitations end with annoying copies, but some rare manage to transport these styles borrowed to the international scene. This is the perfect incarnation of the saying: fuck it until you do it.
Cairns, Australia – August 16: Dewald Brevis of Africa South Africa Batts in the third match of the male T20 International T20 series between Australia and South Africa at Cazaly’s Stadium on August 16, 2025 in Cairns, Australia. (Photo by Emily Barker / Getty Images)
Experts often insist that the action of the brand of a player or bowling is inimitable, which was born from instinct and impossible to reproduce. However, some young regiment this noise and continue to practice what inspires them.Take Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, for example. They have long been the plan for budding crickets. And Shubman Gill and Dewald Brevis, their greatest admirers, seem to have unlocked this model. Tour shooting training, from scoop to punch of the front foot, reverse scanning – Gill and Brevis reflect the range of their idols with amazing ease.
