Dewald Brevis opens up on interacting with MS Dhoni at CSK in IPL 2025

Chennai Super Kings batter Dewald Brevis has lavished praise on veteran MS Dhoni for his humbleness off the field. Brevis played under Dhoni’s tutelage in IPL 2025 and revealed the wicket-keeper bat is always there to help the young players.

Dhoni has all the experience under his belt and he is known to get the best out of the players. Meanwhile, Brevis had gone unsold at the auction despite setting his base price at INR 75 lakhs, but later he was picked as an injury replacement for Gurjapneet Singh for INR 2.2 crore by Chennai Super Kings.

Brevis scored 225 runs in six matches for CSK at an average of 37.50 and a strike rate of 180 in IPL 2025 and thus, he was one of the positives for the team.

Brevis said on AB de Villiers’ YouTube Channel, “I’ll always remember like, whenever I tell people it’s amazing. I had amazing times, my four years [in IPL]. It was incredible. And I had to go through all of the journey like it’s been beautiful, and the one thing that I can just say from MS is his humbleness and who he is as a person that stood out for me. How he is basically off the field, the time he has for players, for people.”

“His room door is always open. If he’s sleeping, that’s the only time it’s closed. And I found myself a few times in his room just sitting there with whatever he’s busy like chatting to him about his hobbies, watching cricket, and yeah, that’s just amazing and just to see how what he does like off the field and like everyone knows what he does on the field and at training and yeah just it’s very special,” he added.

The Proteas batter said he enjoyed his time while playing for CSK in the IPL under Stephen Fleming and company.

“I enjoyed my time there. Flem, all the coaches, I see, Eric, everyone was really amazing, how they took me in, and their backing was amazing to just walk in and to almost like settle in first. Didn’t play the first game, but I knew the plans that they’ve got for me. And yeah, it was great. Like really enjoyed all of the other guys. Like, there’s a few great overseas players were fun to have there as well, and also the local guys.

Brevis is currently part of South Africa’s ODI team, which is taking on England.