Litton Das Out of IPL 2023, KKR Announce West Indies Big-hitter as Replacement!

By Rahul Gupta On May 5, 2023

Litton, who plays for Bangladesh and made his IPL debut this year, went home after just one game because there was a family issue.
Thursday, the Kolkata Knight Riders replaced Litton Das with Johnson Charles for the rest of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 season.

Litton, who plays for Bangladesh and made his IPL debut this year, went home after just one game because of a family issue in the last week of April.

Kolkata Knight Riders’ Litton Das goes back to the pavilion after being sent off during Thursday’s Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 game against Delhi Capitals at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. (IPL Twitter) (ANI Photo/Digital Restriction)

“Litton Das had to go back to Bangladesh early this morning (April 28) because a family member’s health was in danger. We hope that he and his family will be able to get through this hard time,” KKR said.

The right-handed wicket keeper-batsman’s only game this year was against the Delhi Capitals. He only scored 4 runs and had a poor game behind the stumps, where he missed two chances to stump Axar Patel and Lalit Yadav in a game that KKR lost.

Litton joined the KKR team in the second week of April. He had missed the first few games because he had to go abroad. Shakib Al Hasan, who was also from Bangladesh, had already quit the event.

Charles, who will replace Litton, is a wicketkeeper who can also bat. He has played for West Indies in 41 T20Is, getting 971 runs, and was part of the teams that won the ICC World Twenty20 in 2012 and 2016. He has also played in 224 T20s and has more than 5,600 runs to his name. For 50 Lakh, he joins KKR.