Two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have roped in English wicketkeeper batter Phil Salt because the alternative for Jason Roy forward of the Indian Premier League (2024). In an announcement launched by the IPL, it acknowledged that Jason pulled himself out of the upcoming season of the T20 match resulting from “personal reasons”. The assertion additionally added that the 2024 season might be Salt’s second IPL after representing the Delhi Capitals (DC) within the earlier yr. “Kolkata Knight Riders have named Phil Salt as a replacement for Jason Roy after the latter pulled out of the upcoming TATA IPL 2024 owing to personal reasons. Having remained unsold in the auction after representing the Delhi Capitals last year, this will be Salt’s second season in the IPL.”

It added that the Kolkata-based franchise bagged Salt for his reserve value of Rs 1.5 crore.

“Bought at his reserve price of INR 1.5 crore, the aggressive wicket-keeper batter from England scored two consecutive T20I centuries against the West Indies in December last year. His 48-ball century in the 4th T20I at Trinidad is also the joint-fastest for England,” it added.

In the earlier season of the IPL, Salt represented the Delhi-based franchise, the place he took half in 9 matches by which he scored a complete of 218 runs at a strike charge of 163.91.

With star abroad gamers like Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine and Mitchell Starc obtainable, together with a robust Indian core in Nitish Rana, skipper Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer and Varun Chakravarthy, KKR might be aiming to do nicely within the IPL 2024.

Last season, they completed seventh with six wins and eight losses. 12 factors weren’t sufficient to earn them a spot within the playoffs.

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) IPL 2024 squad: Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 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.