Latest News
Heinrich Klaasen exposes himself to some family reasons in 2024 CPL
Heinrich Klaasen will not be taking part in the 2024 season of the Caribbean Premier League, which begins on Thursday, due to a family emergency. The South African middle-order batter is one of the world's best power-hitters, especially against slow bowling and is a significant loss for St Lucia Kings, who had signed him up, in June ahead of the CPL draft.
Lords, who came to the Eliminator in the wake of completing third on the focuses table last season, have supplanted Klaasen with New Zealand wicketkeeper-player Tim Seifert, who has recently played for Trinbago Knight Riders and brought home the championship with them in 2020.
Klaasen was important for the Guyana Amazon Champions group in 2022, yet that was before he made his mark as a restricted overs cricketer. He made 118 runs in five matches at a strike pace of 137. In the a long time from that point forward, he has played 82 T20s for both club and nation, scoring 2293 runs at a strike pace of 169, including two hundreds and 16 fifties.
There were faculty changes in different groups too with Knight Riders welcoming USA's Andries Gous on board as a transitory substitution. The 30-year-old wicketkeeper-hitter dazzled as the seventh-most noteworthy scorer at the T20 World Cup recently and will sub in for Australia's Tim David, who is supposed to join Knight Riders solely after their initial four matches of the time.
Barbados Royals required momentary cover also with David Mill operator and Keshav Maharaj because of miss the initial two matches to go to the Cricket South Africa grants capability on September 5. They've gotten Sri Lanka allrounder Dunith Wellalage, who was a champion entertainer in the new ODI series against India, and Shamarh Streams.
Sikandar Raza has pulled out of the CPL too with a physical issue. The Zimbabwe allrounder posted on X (already Twitter) that he would be feeling the loss of the whole competition. St Kitts and Nevis Loyalists are yet to name a substitution.
For additional subtleties on the CPL crews for the 2024 competition.