The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have named Sri Lanka’s Dushmantha Chameera as England’s Gus Atkinson’s replacement for the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024.
Atkinson was roped in by KKR for his base price of Rs 1 crore in the IPL mini-auction. Chameera’s services have been acquired by the franchise for his base price of Rs 50 lakh.
The Sri Lankan player recently injured his left quadriceps in the first ODI against Afghanistan. He was ruled out of the three-match T20I series against Afghanistan. Sri Lanka are yet to name their squad for the Bangladesh series. It will be interesting to see if Chameera recovers before the tour.
Chameera made his IPL debut for Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in the 2022 edition. He took nine wickets at an average of 42.67 and conceded runs at 8.73 runs per over. He worked with former LSG mentor Gautam Gambhir who is now associated with his former franchise KKR.
Earlier, Chameera was a part of the Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) squads in the 2018 and 2021 editions respectively but did not get a game.
Chameera's stint with Dubai Capitals
Before getting injured during national duty, Chameera played for Dubai Capitals in the recently concluded ILT20 2024 where they lost to MI Emirates in the final. He took 10 wickets from seven appearances. His best performance of 4 for 28 in the season came against Sharjah Warriors in a losing cause.
Chameera's T20 record
The 32-year-old pacer has 118 wickets from 119 games including four four-wicket hauls. His economy rate is 7.98 runs per over.
KKR's updated full squad for IPL 2024:
Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shreyas Iyer (c), Jason Roy, Sunil Narine, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain.
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