Two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have hired English goalkeeper Phil Salt to replace Jason Roy ahead of the Indian Premier League (2024). In a statement released by the IPL, Jason has withdrawn from the upcoming T20 tournament season due to “personal reasons”. The statement also added that the 2024 season will be Salter’s second appearance in the IPL after playing for Delhi Capitals (DC) last year. “Kolkata Knight Riders have appointed Phil Salt to replace Jason Roy, who has withdrawn from the upcoming TATA IPL 2024 due to personal reasons. After representing Delhi Capitals last year, the auction Still unsold, this will be Salter’s second season in the IPL.”
The Kolkata-based franchisee acquired Salt at a base price of Rs 15 crore, it added.
“Bought for a base price of INR 150 million in December last year, the aggressive wicketkeeper-batsman from England scored two consecutive T20I centuries against West Indies. His fourth in Trinidad The 48-ball century in a T20I match is also joint-fastest for England,” it added.
In the last season of IPL, Salter played 9 games for the Delhi team and scored a total of 218 runs with a strike rate of 163.91.
With overseas star players such as Rahmanullah Gubaz, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine and Mitchell Starc, as well as a strong Indian core of Nitish Rana, captain Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer and Varun Chakravarthy, KKR will be committed to IPL 2024.
Last season, they finished seventh with six wins and eight losses. 12 points wasn’t enough to get them into the playoffs.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) IPL 2024 squad: Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gubaz, Shreyas Iyer, Phil Salt, Sunil Narine, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy, KS Bharat , Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb Ur Rehman, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain.
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