Phil Salt replaces Jason Roy at KKR

Kolkata Knight Riders have brought in Phil Salt as a replacement for Jason Roy for IPL 2024 after Roy pulled out citing "personal reasons". Having remained unsold in the latest auction after representing Delhi Capitals last year, this will be Salt's second season in the IPL. He was acquired by KKR at his reserve auction price of INR 1.5 crore (approx $181,000). Salt's latest T20I appearances came in December 2023 in the Caribbean, where he recorded scores of 40, 25, 109 not out, 119 and 38, beating the run-scoring diagrams with his 331 runs, at a strike pace of 185.95. Sadly for him, the two centuries came on December 16 and 19, the last the date of the bartering. With Roy quitting, however, he turned into a possibility for KKR. His 48-ball century in the fourth T20I in the West Indies is the joint-quickest in the organization for Britain, and Salt presently has a heavenly T20 record, with 5308 runs from 221 innings at a strike pace of 153.41 and a normal of 25.89. Also, he has played all over the planet, as well, remembering for the BBL, the Caribbean Chief Association, the Pakistan Super Association, and in associations in Sri Lanka, the UAE and South Africa. Roy, as far as concerns him, hasn't had a customary run at the IPL regardless of his standing as a short-design champion, despite the fact that he has been around a little, playing for the now-dead Gujarat Lions in 2017, Delhi Thrill seekers (presently Capitals) in 2018, and in this way for Sunrisers Hyderabad and KKR; he had been procured by KKR at the December 2023 closeout for INR 2.8 crore. This, however, isn't whenever he first has quit the IPL. He had removed in 2020 (Capitals) for individual reasons and afterward in 2022 (Gujarat Titans) when he took an "endless break" from the game. The trade doesn't change the abroad/Indian equilibrium of the KKR line-up. Salt turns into a possibility for the initial opening alongside Rahmanullah Gurbaz, with Sherfane Rutherford the other expert abroad hitter in the blend. That to the side, they have old regulars Andre Russell and Sunil Narine, as well as speedy bowlers Mitchell Starc and Dushmantha Chameera, who had prior supplanted Gus Atkinson, and Mujeeb Ur Rahman, the fingerspinner. Shreyas Iyer is the assigned chief of the side, which will play its IPL 2024 opener on the second day of the competition, Walk 23, against Sunrisers at home in Kolkata's Eden Nurseries.