KL Rahul and Mark Wood
The 2024 Indian Premier League (IPL) season is expected to begin in the last week of March. Earlier, the Lucknow Super Giants team suffered a major blow with England fast bowler Mark Wood being ruled out for the entire upcoming season. In his place, the franchise has made West Indies fast bowler Shamar Joseph a part of its team. Lucknow Super Giants have decided to add Shamar Joseph to their team for Rs 3 crore.
Joseph came into the spotlight with the Gaba test
West Indies fast bowler Shamar Joseph was part of the West Indies team that recently toured Australia to play a two-match Test series. Joseph’s bowling was great in both games. In the second match of the series played at the Gabba, Joseph played an important role in helping the Australian team defeat them by 8 runs by taking 7 wickets. The 24-year-old Joseph has only played two T20 matches in his Test career so far in which he failed to take a single wicket. Apart from this, Joseph has 34 wickets to his name in 7 first-class matches.
The ECB has decided that Mark Wood should handle the workload
According to ESPN Cricinfo’s report that Mark Wood will not play in the upcoming IPL season, the England Cricket Board has taken this decision to manage his workload so that he can get ready ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup taking place this month , can fully recover in June. Can stay fit. Let us tell you that Mark Wood is also part of the England team that came to India to play the Test series. He got a chance to play in the Hyderabad Test match and was then rested in the Visakhapatnam Test match. When Wood played for Lucknow Super Giants last season, he took a total of 11 wickets, in the game against Delhi Capitals, he also managed to grab 5 wickets.
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