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Middle-order batter Bevon Jacobs, a hard-hitter from Latest Zealand, was bought by the Mumbai Indians at his base price of Rs 30 lakh.
Bevon Jacobs smacks a six during MI’s nets session (Picture credit: Screengrab from X)
Latest Zealand batter Bevon Jacobs, who’s yet to make his debut for the Blackcaps, looked impressive during his nets session for the Mumbai Indians on Monday, as a video shared by the franchise suggests.
Jacobs, a hard-hitter from Latest Zealand, was bought by Mumbai at his base price of Rs 30 lakh.
Within the video, Jacobs was seen in a nets session and smacked a six, which landed on the roof of the Wankhede Stadium. Watch the video here:
Who Is Bevon Jacobs
At an auction through which the likes of Kane Williamson and Daryl Mitchell had gone unsold, Mumbai raised the paddle for the 22-year-old Jacobs for Rs 30 lakh.
“Oh! They [his family] couldn’t imagine it. I believe they were more shocked than I used to be. We were all in a little bit of a mental state this morning [where] we just didn’t know what was occurring,” Jacobs said after his IPL selection.
When he was picked, Jacobs had played lower than 10 T20s and can now join the experienced Trent Boult and Mitchell Santner at Mumbai for IPL 2025. He played 10 more T20s after that.
Jacobs is a hard-hitting batter who was one in every of the breakout stars of the 2023-24 Super Smash tournament. He scored 134 runs in six innings in that event, at a strike rate of 188.73.
Jacobs scored a 20-ball 42 in the primary match of the Super Smash that season, hitting 4 boundaries and three sixes at a strike rate of 210, before getting bowled out by Jimmy Neesham.
Jacobs was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in May 2002, before his family moved to Latest Zealand when he was around three years old.
Jacobs got here through the Auckland pathway system before he shifted to Canterbury, where he made his senior T20 and List A debuts.
Jacobs made his List A debut in November 2023, followed by his T20 debut in December within the aforementioned Super Smash game. He made his first-class debut in November 2024, scoring a 75 in the primary innings and 79 within the second.
Jacobs has till now scored 476 runs in five first-class games at a surprising average of 59.5. In T20s, he has scored 423 runs in 17 matches at a strike rate of 148.42.
