IPL 2024: Matt Henry replaces David Willey in Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)

IPL 2024: Matt Henry replaces David Willey in Lucknow Super Giants (LSG): After David Willey's exit from the 17th season of IPL, now Lucknow Super Giants has announced the name of his replacement player, in which New Zealand team's fast bowler Matt Henry has been included in the team for this season.

Lucknow Super Giants have included New Zealand fast bowler Matt Henry as a replacement player for IPL 2024. David Willey had withdrawn his name before the start of this season due to personal reasons. The Lucknow team had not announced the name of the replacement player at that time, now they have decided to include Matt Henry in their team after playing the first match of the season. Henry has been included in their team by Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 1 crore 25 lakh.

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Matt Henry fast bowler

Matt Henry, who plays international cricket for the New Zealand team, is known for his fast pace, he consistently bowls at a speed of 140 plus, so he can prove to be very useful for the team even in the death overs with the new ball. . , Matt Henry has previously been a part of Punjab Kings and Chennai Super Kings team in IPL, in which he has played only 2 matches so far and in the year 2017, he got a chance to play for Punjab Kings team. Henry has so far played 25 Tests, 82 ODIs and 17 T20 matches for the New Zealand team. Henry has 20 wickets to his name so far in T20 International, in which his economy has been seen around 8, while the average has been 24.8. If we look at Henry's statistics in T20 cricket, he has taken 151 wickets in 131 matches at an average of 24.70, during which he has also achieved the feat of taking 4 wickets in an innings thrice.

Lucknow Super Giants (LKN) team has lost the first match

Lucknow team is currently at the last position in the points table. They have to play their second match of this season on March 30 against Punjab Kings at their home ground Ekana Cricket Stadium. LSG would like to open its account of victory in this match. In the first match, the batsmen of Lucknow team could not perform as per expectations, due to which the team had to face defeat.