Sunrisers Hyderabad signed up England batsman Jason Roy as replacement for Mitchell Marsh, who has made himself unavailable for the entire season owing to personal reasons, the Indian Premier League announced on Wednesday.
Marsh, who made his Indian Premier League debut in 2010 has played a total of 21 IPL games. His replacement, Jason Roy made his IPL debut in 2017 playing for Gujarat Lions and later featured for Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals) in the 2018 IPL edition. He has played a total of eight matches and scored 179 runs with one half-century to his name.
According to a report in Cricbuzz, “the all-rounder expressed inability to spend long times inside the bio-secure bubble and informed his decision to the Board of Control for Cricket in India as well as to SRH.”
Sunrisers Hyderabad have acquired Roy at his base price of Rs 2 Crore. The Englishman was part of the Delhi Capitals last season before he had withdrawn. He was in India as part of the England…
