2024-03-25 04:17:52
Kolkata: Everyone was shocked when a player went unsold in the IPL 2024 auction. Even after scoring 218 runs at a strike rate of 164 last season, Delhi Capitals released this player. During the auction itself, this England player scored two centuries in the T20 series against West Indies. Even after this it remained unsold. But then KKR included him in the team as a replacement. This player is wicketkeeper batsman Phil Salt.
Phil Salt became popular as soon as he arrived
Phil Salt showed in his very first match of IPL 2024 why his going unsold was shocking to everyone. KKR gave Salt a chance to open the batting in the match against Hyderabad. He left his mark in the very second over. Salt hit Hyderabad’s leading fast bowler Marco Yansen for three sixes in a single over. These three sixes were hit on consecutive balls.
All three sixes are off side.
Phil Salt hit all three sixes on the off side. Marco Jansen bowled every ball outside the off stump. Salt hit everyone in almost the same way. However, Sunil Narine was all out on the last ball of the same over. Yansen did not give room to Salt on this ball. Sunil Narine ran away to score runs. Shahbaz Nadeem ran out Narine with a direct hit.
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Playing eleven of both the teams
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Marco Johnson, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markandey, T Natarajan.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Philip Salt (wicketkeeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy.