Cricket
Once more, Phil Salt can satisfy your fantasy needs in Centurion.
By Kajal Sharma - 25 Jan 2024 09:06 PM
Salt amassed two hundreds from the top of the order in the Championship, including 148 off 138 balls against Derbyshire. In the Blast, he struck at a strike-rate of 172, which helped Sussex reach the final. Had it not been for his disastrous run-out in the second over, Sussex might have won. After spotting his talent, Lahore Qalandars encouraged him to participate in the Abu Dhabi T20 trophy, which is similar to the Champions League, but Islamabad United pounced to sign him in the PSL draft. He scored two more hundreds in the Championship in 2019, but once again, he was most impressive while playing against the white ball.
He smashed a ton in the One-Day Cup and ended the Blast as Sussex's top run scorer. In October, he took a call from the Barbados Tridents while on a Miami beach, and shortly after, he was flying into Trinidad to play in the CPL final. Although he failed, he still lifted the trophy. Playing for Adelaide Strikers in the BBL, he also established himself as a regular, under Sussex coach Jason Gillespie.After smashing a 58-ball century against Ireland in a warm-up match at the Ageas Bowl the following summer, he very well may have made his England debut; but, they went with their tried-and-true openers, and he spent the remainder of the season back in Sussex.
He had little success during his winter away from home with Adelaide and Islamabad as teams exploited his weakness against legspin. Upon his return to the UK, a bizarre bicycle mishap prevented him from competing in the first stages of the Championship season. He did not participate in a single red-ball game in 2021, and his signing of a three-year contract with Lancashire seemed like a homecoming after he had spent the summertime playing for Manchester Originals in the Hundred.