Phil Salt's blast before the mega auction, Afghan bowler scored 34 runs in 1 over; watch video

Phil Salt Video: The mega auction for IPL 2025 will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on November 24 and 25, before which the explosion of English wicketkeeper Phil Salt has been seen in the Abu Dhabi T10 League. Actually, the first match of this tournament was played between Team Abu Dhabi and Ajman Bolt on last Thursday (21 November) where Salt achieved the feat of scoring 34 runs in one over.

Yes, that's what happened. Actually, this incident happened in the 5th over of Team Abu Dhabi's innings. Afghan all-rounder Gulbadin Naib had come to bowl this over for Ajman Bolt. On the other hand, Phil Salt was batting after scoring 18 runs on 12 balls. He had settled on the field and now he could see the cricket ball and football. In such a situation, they decided to target Gulbadin.

Here Phil Salt showed his monster form and scored 34 runs by hitting 5 sixes and one four in Gulbadin's over. It is noteworthy that in this match, Phil Salt played a stormy inning of 53 unbeaten runs on just 19 balls and during this, he hit a total of 6 sixes and 2 fours and added runs at a strike rate of 278.94.

Also know that this aggressive inning of Phil Salt has come before the IPL mega auction. In such a situation, it is clear that now even bigger bids can be placed on them on the auction table. Let us tell you that last season he had performed very well and scored 435 runs in 12 matches at an average of around 40 for Kolkata Knight Riders. However, despite this he was not retained. This is the reason why now other teams will also have full opportunity to make him theirs.

If we talk about the first match of Abu Dhabi T10 League 2024, here Ajman Bolt had scored 79 runs by losing 8 wickets in 10 overs, in response to which Team Abu Dhabi scored just one in 5.4 overs on the basis of Phil Salt's brilliant half-century. Won by achieving the target at the loss of a wicket. Phil Salt was also awarded the title of Player of the Match.

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