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Kolkata had faced some blows at the beginning of the Indian T20 League 2023 as their regular skipper Shreyas Iyer was already ruled out of the tournament due to a lower back injury. Later on, the Bangladesh all-rounder, probably an asset for Kolkata, also pulled back from the tournament due to personal reasons.
Now, in a recent line of events, the franchise has roped in senior England batter Jason Roy for the remaining part of the 16th edition of the Indian T20 League 2023. They have signed the veteran right-hander for an amount of INR 2.8 crores. Notably, he had registered in a mini-auction on a base price of INR 1.5 crores but unfortunately, he went unsold during the mini-auction ahead of the tournament.
Subsequently, a section of cricket fans also reacted to this news with a lot of reactions and responses on the micro-blogging site Twitter.
Here’s how fans reacted:
@Prat1k_ bhau ka sapna sach ho gya finally 😭😭♥️♥️
— retired ICT fan (@anubhav__tweets) April 5, 2023
@Prat1k_ bhai party
— Siddharth (@breakingbadass) April 5, 2023
— Rajnesh (@Rajnesh54769412) April 5, 2023
Good news ✨
— Dr Khushboo 🇮🇳 (@khushbookadri) April 5, 2023
Roy is one of my personal favorites. Too bad he will play for a finished franchise kkr
— Lil ducky (@Iagreewithyoub1) April 5, 2023
Abhi to form me hi hau, lekin ipl me out of form ho jayega 😄😄
— Arunabh Bhardwaj (@ArunabhBhardwa4) April 5, 2023
Wow.. finally some good news for kkr fans
— Vishal Singh Raksel (@VSRaksel) April 5, 2023
KKR Fans : pic.twitter.com/Hle0JFumTt
— R 🇮🇳 (@Lords_131) April 5, 2023
News of the day 💜
— GOURAB (@Gourabking7) April 5, 2023
Good job @KKRiders 👏
— Jαყαɳƚ Sԋαɾɱα 🚩 (@JAYANTS86490628) April 5, 2023
KKR fans: pic.twitter.com/ku71u5frCr
— SANKET (@oye_protein) April 5, 2023
Earlier, the 32-year-old Durban-born England batter had appeared in the Indian T20 League for other teams including the likes of Delhi, Gujarat, and Hyderabad. Interestingly, it is the second time when Roy will be appearing for Kolkata in the cash-rich Indian franchise T20 tournament.
Speaking of his performance in the Indian T20 League, he has played 13 matches in the tournament so far since his debut five years back in the year 2017. In these matches, he has scored 329 runs with an average of 29.91 including two half-centuries to his name.
Here’s a look at the Kolkata squad for the Indian T20 League 2023:
Nitish Rana (Captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, Narayan Jagadeesan, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Sharma, David Weise, Kulwant Khejrolia, Mandeep Singh, Litton Das, and Jason Roy.