{"id":286132,"date":"2023-04-14T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=286132"},"modified":"2023-04-15T19:58:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T19:58:09","slug":"ipl-2023-kolkata-knight-riders-ropes-in-aarya-desai-for-rs-20-lakhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=286132","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2023: Kolkata Knight Riders ropes in Aarya Desai for Rs 20 Lakhs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata Knight Riders have signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/tag\/aarya-desai\/\">Aarya Desai<\/a> for the remainder of the 16th edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/cricket\/t20-league\/indian-premier-league\/\">Indian Premier League<\/a> (IPL 2023).<\/p>\n<p>Desai, who represents Gujarat in domestic cricket, has played 3 First-Class matches and has 151 runs against his name. The 20-year-old joins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/cricket\/t20-league\/indian-premier-league\/kolkata-knight-riders\/\">KKR<\/a> for Rs 20 Lakh. Desai made his first-class debut in January and is yet to play List A or T20 cricket for his state team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Check: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/ipl-2023-points-table-indian-premier-league-2023-team-standings\/\">TATA IPL 2023 Points Table<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cKolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Friday brought Aarya Desai on board for the remainder of the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023. Desai, who represents Gujarat in domestic cricket, has played 3 First-Class matches and has 151 runs against his name. He joins KKR for INR 20 Lakh,\u201d<\/em> the IPL said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was not mentioned who he replaced in the team. Shreyas Iyer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/tag\/shakib-al-hasan\/\">Shakib Al Hasan<\/a> have been ruled out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/cricket\/t20-league\/indian-premier-league\/indian-premier-league-2023\/\">IPL 2023<\/a> for KKR.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Shakib reportedly cited \u2018international commitments and personal issues\u2019 as reasons for his pulling out. Shakib\u2019s stint with KKR would have been for just three weeks between April 9 to May 1. Shakib, aged 36 was bought by KKR for his base price of Rs 1.5 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, KKR captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/tag\/shreyas-iyer\/\">Shreyas Iyer<\/a> is expected to be out of action for at least three months as he\u2019s set to undergo back surgery. He\u2019s also expected to miss the final of the ICC World Test Championship slated to be played in June.<\/p>\n<p>Iyer has been troubled by the back injury since he returned home from the Bangladesh tour.<\/p>\n<p>KKR began their season with a defeat to Punjab Kings Mohali. However, the Nitish Rana-led side bounced back with back-to-back wins against Royal Challengers Bangalore and defending champions Gujarat Titans.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/ipl-2023-kolkata-knight-riders-ropes-in-aarya-desai-for-rs-20-lakhs\/\">IPL 2023: Kolkata Knight Riders ropes in Aarya Desai for Rs 20 Lakhs<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\">The Sports News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Kolkata Knight Riders have signed Aarya Desai for the remainder of the 16th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2023).<br \/>\nThe post IPL 2023: Kolkata Knight Riders ropes in Aarya Desai for Rs 20 Lakhs appeared first on The Sports News.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286133,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286132\/revisions\/286133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}