KKR pacer Rasikh Salam has been ruled out of IPL 2022 due to a lower back injury.
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KKR medium pacer Rasikh Salam has been ruled out of the IPL 2022 on Friday due to a lower back. The Jammu & Kashmir bowler who was making a return to the lucrative tournament featured in two matches for KKR in IPL 2022. He will be replaced by Harshit Rana from Delhi.
Salam was rewarded for his patience as he got his cap for KKR to play against his former franchise in the IPL 2022. He was bought for a base price of INR 20 lakh by the Kolkata franchise.
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Salam made his debut in the IPL for Mumbai Indians in 2019. In his debut season, at the age of 17 years and 353 days, he was said to be the youngest player to make their debut for the Mumbai Indians.
However, it was later found out that he had submitted a ‘faulty birth certificate to BCCI’ and he was subsequently banned for two years due to age-fudging ahead of India Under-19 triangular one-day series in England, with Bangladesh in July.
Salam was replaced with Prabhat Maurya in the 18-member squad and it derailed his career early with little or no hopes of him making a comeback.
It was only hope against hope for Salam in the past two years to make a comeback. But the former Mumbai Indians bowler kept at it and practiced throughout the odds to stay ready for an opportunity.
“For an athlete, who had just started his career, it was very difficult to phase all that, but his family was very supportive…”
“MI provided mental support and training. He would often be in Mumbai to train,” his brother Nadeem Dar told Sportstar.
His cousin Nadeem, understood the difficulty of the situation, and further helped him to train whenever he would visit home in Kulgam. “We had come up with a plan on how to train regularly. Every day, we would go to the park nearby for practice. He would bowl and I would bat, and that would go on for a few hours. In the evening, we were back again with a similar drill,” Dar said.
