{"id":4844,"date":"2025-09-10T10:16:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.runridedive.com\/?p=4844"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:16:55","slug":"brevis-and-markram-shatter-sa20-season-4-player-auction-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runridedive.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/brevis-and-markram-shatter-sa20-season-4-player-auction-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Brevis and Markram shatter SA20 Season 4 Player Auction records"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over R22 million spent on rising Under-23 stars in the pipeline<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dewald Brevis and Aiden Markram shattered the Betway SA20 Season 4 Player Auction records on Tuesday, with the pair becoming the most expensive buys in the history of all auctions to date.<\/p>\n

The South African top-order batters, who were the talk of the town before going under Richard Madley\u2019s hammer, were in huge demand in Johannesburg, setting the entire cricket world abuzz during the tense bidding wars for the Marquee Sets. \u200b<\/p>\n

The Pretoria Capitals, who had Indian legend and new coach Sourav Ganguly setting the bids for the Centurion franchise, won a bidding war with Joburg Super Kings to land Brevis for a whopping\u00a0R16.5 million<\/strong>\u00a0to become the most expensive player bought in SA20 auction history.<\/p>\n

Brevis, 22, is homegrown in Pretoria and will return to Centurion after playing the past three seasons at MI Cape Town.<\/p>\n

This was part of a hugely exciting Marquee Set 1 with Brevis\u2019 purchase coming just 12 minutes after Aiden Markram was bought for\u00a0R14 million.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Proteas T20I captain Markram will relocate to Kingsmead after Sunrisers Eastern Cape had done their level best to keep their former captain by utilising their Right to Match (RTM) card at the initial auction price of R12.4 million, before DSG raised their bid by a further R1.6 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m always reluctant to talk about the numbers, but it is exciting to see the investment back into South African cricket,\u201d Betway SA20 League Commissioner said after the auction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an investment that was never there. The franchises have come and they’ve invested properly. You see they’re getting behind the South African players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it’s also credit to how the players have progressed over the last three or four years. I think there’s some proper talent. The platform that Betway SA20 has provided has not only benefited them here (in South Africa), but benefited them in other leagues and internationally as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think credit to their performances. They’ve fetched the prices because they’ve performed well, and they’ve stood out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The previous Betway SA20 auction record was held by Sunrisers Eastern Cape\u2019s Tristan Stubbs\u2019 R9.2 million at the maiden auction in Cape Town back in 2022.<\/p>\n

Joburg Super Kings went close to the mark with the acquisition of Proteas allrounder Wiaan Mulder for\u00a0R9 million<\/strong>\u00a0along with left-arm seamer Nandre Burger for\u00a0R6.3 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall, the six franchises spent\u00a0R129.3 million<\/strong>\u00a0on 84 players giving them a chance to unleash their potential and make an impact on the upcoming Season 4.<\/p>\n

A mega\u00a0R116.9 million<\/strong>\u00a0was spent on South African players, which includes\u00a0R22.8 million<\/strong>\u00a0on 12 Under-23 players.<\/p>\n

Rising teenage paceman Kwena Maphaka will form part of the Durban\u2019s Super Giants squad, after the left-arm seamer was purchased for\u00a0R2.3 million<\/strong>, while promising youngsters Janco Smit, Bayanda Majola and JJ Bason were picked up by Joburg Super Kings, Pretoria Capitals and Paarl Royals respectively to mark their debut SA20 seasons. \u200b<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have had an unprecedented investment in young players,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIn the Under-23s, I think over R22 million was invested into young players in South African cricket, which is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over R22 million spent on rising Under-23 stars in the pipeline Dewald Brevis and Aiden Markram shattered the Betway SA20 Season 4 Player Auction records Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runridedive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runridedive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runridedive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runridedive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runridedive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.runridedive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4845,"href":"https:\/\/www.runridedive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions\/4845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runridedive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runridedive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runridedive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}