Two-time Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have named West Indies batter Johnson Charles as alternative for Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batter Litton Das for the remaining IPL 2023 season. Litton Das needed to return to Bangladesh final week resulting from a household emergency.
“Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Thursday named Johnson Charles as a replacement for Litton Das for the remainder of the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023,” an IPL assertion stated.
Charles is a wicketkeeper-batter like Litton Das and has represented West Indies in 41 T20Is, scoring 971 runs and was part of West Indies’ 2012 and 2016 ICC World Twenty20-winning squads. Additionally, he has performed 224 T20s and has over 5600 runs towards his identify. “He joins KKR for Rs 50 Lakh,” the assertion added.
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Charles scored the quickest T20I century by a West Indies batter, off 39 balls, earlier this 12 months towards South Africa in Centurion. KKR are on the brink of tackle Sunrisers Hyderabad in match no. 47 of the IPL 2023 on the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Thursday.
Litton Das performed in just one match within the IPL 2023 season, scoring 4 runs earlier than returning dwelling to Bangladesh. With his 39-ball hundred earlier this season, Charles broke Chris Gayle’s document. Charles now holds the document for the quickest T20I hundred by a West Indian.
Earlier, Gayle had scored a ton off 47 balls towards England in Mumbai in 2016. Charles additionally notched the joint second-fastest hundred in T20Is, equalling Romania’s Sivakumar Periyalwar (towards Turkey in 2019) and Hungary’s Zeeshan Kukikhel (towards Austria in 2022).
The document for the quickest T20I hundred is being collectively held by India’s Rohit Sharma, South Africa’s David Miller and Czech Republic’s Sudesh Wickramasekara. Charles was a part of the Durban’s Super Giants crew within the inaugural SA20 league earlier this 12 months.
The 34-year-old from St Lucia within the Caribbean has scored 5,607 runs in 224 T20 matches in his profession with a strike-rate of 130.72 with 3 centuries and 32 fifties to his identify. Charles’ power-hitting got here to the fore in worldwide cricket when he muscled 52 off 36 balls towards India, establishing West Indies’ win over India within the World T20 semi-final in Mumbai in 2016.
