Mujeeb Ur Rahman out for entire season; 16 year old Afghan spinner joins KKR; Keshav Maharaj's changed team

IPL 2024: The series of injuries to players in IPL 2024 is showing no signs of ending. Now Afghanistan's spin bowler Mujeeb-ur-Rahman is out of the entire tournament due to injury. In his place, Kolkata Knight Riders have added 16-year-old Afghan off-spin bowler Allah Ghazanfar to their squad. Ghazanfar has so far represented Afghanistan in 2 ODI matches. Ghazanfar was earlier seen playing for Afghanistan in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2024. So far, he has played 3 T20 matches and 6 List-A matches in his career, in which he has taken 5 and 4 wickets respectively. Ghazanfar has been signed by KKR for his base price i.e. Rs 20 lakh.

Talking about Mujeeb-ur-Rahman, he has also played for Sunrisers Hyderabad and Punjab Kings in IPL, but in the 2024 auction, KKR bought him for Rs 2 crore. Mujeeb did not play in IPL after 2021, but due to injury he had to sit out this time too. Well, now it will be interesting to see what wonders Allah Ghazanfar can show in his place.

Rajasthan Royals also made a big change

On the other hand, a big change has also been seen in the team of Rajasthan Royals. This is the second consecutive season when Prasidh Krishna has been out of the entire IPL tournament due to injury. As his replacement, RR has added South African all-rounder Keshav Maharaj to its team. Maharaj also had to undergo surgery due to leg injury and is currently recovering from it. He was with Lucknow Super Giants for IPL 2024, but will now be seen playing for RR. Keshav Maharaj has played 27 T20 matches in his international career so far, in which he has taken 24 wickets apart from scoring 671 runs. He has 1,686 runs and 55 wickets in his name in 44 ODI matches. If we look at his Test career, he has played 50 matches so far and scored 5,055 runs and has also taken 158 wickets.

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