‘It’s going to be a challenge’: Mitchell Starc excited to be back in IPL ‘circus’ for Kolkata Knight Riders

Australian pacer Mitchell Starc is about to return to the Indian Premier League (IPL) after a lengthy hole of 9 years. Starc, who final performed in the cash-rich T20 league in 2015 for the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), will be plying his commerce for the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) after the two-time champions picked him for INR 24.75 crore forward of the 2024 version of the IPL. 

For years Starc has prioritised worldwide cricket and used the IPL window to relaxation and recuperate forward of the large worldwide season whether or not it was Ashes or the World Cup in the previous couple of years. This time too, there’s a T20 World Cup scheduled in June in the Caribbean and the United States and Starc registered for the IPL public sale after so a few years to hold his T20 sport in form and be raring to go for the marquee match for Australia.

Ahead of the 2024 version of the IPL, Starc expressed his pleasure to be back in the Indian T20 league and taking part in for KKR for whom he was supposed to play in 2018. “It’s been 8 years, I think. Back to KKR where I was supposed to be in 2018. So I’ll be back there for the chance to pull on the gold and purple. I guess my memories are a few and far between of back in 2014 and 2015 with Bangalore but yeah, really excited to get stuck in,” Starc stated talking on cricket.com.au about returning to IPL.

“Obviously, a new group of players. A bunch of guys I certainly haven’t met or been able to work with before,” Starc additional added. “A couple of guys that I’ve, international guys that I’ve played against and come across. Yeah, it’s gonna be exciting. It’s definitely a new challenge. But yeah, it’ll be exciting. It’s always a bit of a circus when it is the best T20 league in the world. So, yeah I look forward to it.”

Starc is about to lead KKR’s bowling assault with the likes of Harshit Rana, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy and Suyash Sharma to share the duties. KKR open their marketing campaign in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at Eden Gardens on Saturday, March 23.