How West Indies’ Johnson Charles can turn around KKR’s fortunes?

IPL 2023, KKR, Johnson Charles: Kolkata Knight Riders has announced the replacement of Litton Das for the remaining matches of IPL 2023. West Indies wicket-keeper batsman Johnson Charles has got a chance in the team captained by Nitish Rana. Litton Das has returned to his country due to a medical emergency in the family. In such a situation, Kolkata has associated Charles with them for 50 lakh rupees. His performance recently has been commendable. In such a situation, Kolkata will hope that Charles will change the fortunes of the team.

Johnson in fine form

In IPL 2023, Kolkata has played 9 matches so far and they have won only 3. The team is at the 8th position in the points table. Talking about Johnson Charles, he is in excellent form. He has recently scored a century in T20 match. On March 26, against South Africa, Johnson played an inning of 118 runs in 46 balls. In this innings, he had hit 10 fours and 11 sixes. He has scored 2 centuries and a half-century in his last 10 innings.

Career like this so far

Johnson has played 48 ODIs for the West Indies. During this, he scored 1283 runs in 48 innings at an average of 26.72 and a strike rate of 83.80. He has scored 2 centuries and 4 half-centuries in ODIs. Apart from this, he has scored 971 runs in 40 innings of 41 T20 Internationals at an average of 24.27 and a strike rate of 130.86. In T20Is, he has scored 1 century and 4 half-centuries. Charles has played 224 T20 matches so far and scored 5607 runs. He has scored 3 centuries and 32 fifty in T20 format. On the other hand, talking about Charles’ wicketkeeping, he has done 5 stump outs in T20 format, apart from this he has taken 82 catches.

tweeted information

IPL informed about the replacement of Liton Das through a tweet. “Kolkata Knight Riders on Thursday included Johnson Charles in place of Liton Das in the team. Charles is a wicket-keeper batsman. He has played 41 T20 Internationals for the West Indies. In this, he has scored 971 runs. Charles West Indies 2016 ICC World Cup T20 has been a part of the winning team. He was also a part of the 2012 team. Kolkata has included him in the team for 50 lakh rupees.

🚨 NEWS 🚨@KKRiders name Johnson Charles As Replacement For Litton Das.

Details 🔽 #TATAIPLhttps://t.co/YlXMvvsRhp pic.twitter.com/0Qtiiseqw4

— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 4, 2023

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