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Middle-order batter Bevon Jacobs, a hard-hitter from New 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)
New Zealand batter Bevon Jacobs, who is 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 New Zealand, was bought by Mumbai at his base price of Rs 30 lakh.
In 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 in 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 believe it. I think they were more shocked than I was. We were all in a bit of a mental state this morning [where] we just didn’t know what was going on,” Jacobs said after his IPL selection.
When he was picked, Jacobs had played less than 10 T20s and will 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 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 first match of the Super Smash that season, hitting four 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 New Zealand when he was around three years old.
Jacobs came 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 in the aforementioned Super Smash game. He made his first-class debut in November 2024, scoring a 75 in the first innings and 79 in the second.
Jacobs has till now scored 476 runs in five first-class games at a stunning average of 59.5. In T20s, he has scored 423 runs in 17 matches at a strike rate of 148.42.
