Chennai Super Kings’ star abroad signing Devon Conway has been ruled out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 season with a fracture to his left thumb. The defending champions have due to this fact signed England’s right-arm medium pacer Richard Gleeson as Conway’s replacement for the remainder of the season at his reserve value of Rs 50 lakhs.
Conway’s absence could damage Chennai within the longer run as he was the third-leading run-getter of IPL 2023. The southpaw scored 672 runs for CSK and was behind Shubman Gill (890 runs) and Faf du Plessis (730 runs) on the run accumulators listing.
Conway’s contribution performed an instrumental function in serving to Chennai declare their fifth IPL title. The southpaw made his IPL debut for Chennai within the 2022 version and scored 252 runs in seven video games at a median of 42.00. His strike charge of 145.66 was additionally spectacular and his efficiency gave the workforce administration a real motive to consider in his talents.
On the opposite hand, Gleeson is a home veteran and a capped England cricketer. Gleeson, 36, has represented England in six T20Is and claimed 9 wickets to date. He made his T20I debut for the Three Lions towards India at Edgbaston in Birmingham on July 9, 2022.
Though quick on worldwide expertise, the Lancashire-born has performed T20 cricket all over the world for sides like Rangpur Riders within the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), Melbourne Renegades within the Big Bash League (BBL) and Peshawar Zalmi within the Pakistan Super League (PSL).
Chennai Super Kings IPL 2024 squad
Rachin Ravindra, Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Sameer Rizvi, MS Dhoni (wk), Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Mustafizur Rahman, Matheesha Pathirana, Nishant Sindhu, Mitchell Santner, Moeen Ali, Shaik Rasheed, Maheesh Theekshana, Deepak Chahar, Mukesh Choudhary, Devon Conway, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Prashant Solanki, Simarjeet Singh, RS Hangargekar, Aravelly Avanish, Richard Gleeson.
