An unknown batsman of Mumbai Indians played a stormy innings, found a player worth crores in lakhs

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Mumbai Indians is one of the most successful teams in IPL. This team is known for betting on young players due to its strong scouting network. Every time, the Mumbai team also includes some such names in its team, about which very few people know. Mumbai Indians did something similar in the mega auction of IPL 2025. Mumbai Indians bought a 22-year-old Kiwi player. This player has not played any international matches yet. But Mumbai Indians had their eyes on this player. This player has now played a stormy innings.

Stormy innings of an unknown player of Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians had bet on 22-year-old New Zealand player Bevon Jacobs in the mega auction of IPL 2025. They had spent Rs 30 lakh for this player. Bevon Jacobs is known for his explosive batting. He has done something similar in a match of the Super Smash cricket tournament. Actually, in the 13th match of this tournament, the Auckland team faced the Northern Districts team. In this match, Auckland had lost 4 wickets for 52 runs at one time. But after this, Bevon Jacobs' batting storm was seen.

Bevon Jacobs batted at number 5 in this match and scored an unbeaten 90 runs off 56 balls. During this, he scored runs at a strike rate of 160.71 and hit 8 fours and 4 sixes. Due to this stormy innings of Bevon Jacobs, the Auckland team managed to score 187 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. He is currently at number three in the list of highest run-scorers in this tournament. Jacobs has scored 147 runs in 3 matches at an average of 73.50, which includes 2 half-centuries. He has also played 2 matches less than the top-2 batsmen.

The first look at Jacobs was in Super Smash.

Mumbai Indians first saw Bevon Jacobs in the Super Smash tournament itself. He scored a brilliant 20-ball 42 on his debut for Canterbury in the Super Smash 2023-24. He worked as a finisher for the Canterbury Kings and scored 134 runs in six innings at a strike rate of 188.73. Let us tell you, that Bevon Jacobs was born in Pretoria, South Africa, but his family moved to New Zealand when he was about three years old.