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Phil Salt has signed on to return to Adelaide this summer, and his career numbers provide plenty of reasons to be excited.
Salt was born on August 28, 1996 in Bodelwyddan, North Wales. If you were to place his birthplace on a Scrabble board, and your opponent allowed place names, you would receive 22 points.
Bodelwyddan has a population of 2,147, which is just 180 more than Salt’s first-class run-tally.
There are 749 known puns that can be created using the surname ‘Salt’, with more being discovered daily.
The right-hander has played T20 cricket with Adelaide Strikers, Sussex, Barbados Tridents, Lahore Qalanders and Islamabad United.
Making his BBL debut last season, Salt played 15 games for the Strikers and cracked four half-centuries, including 45 boundaries and 12 maximums.
Salt’s BBL strike rate of 164.09 from is the third-highest in the competition’s history. It was also the highest strike rate of any player to play 10 or more games in BBL|09.
Only one game was won by 10 wickets in BBL|09, and it was Salt and Jake Weatherald that did the damage that day, combining to chase down Brisbane Heat’s 100 without the loss of a wicket.
Never one to be out of the game, Salt’s 10 catches were the most of any player in BBL|09.
Salt was also prolific in the UK in 2019, taking the most catches (13) in the English T20 competition that season.
Salt was Sussex’s highest T20 run scorer last year, belting 406 runs at an average of 36.9 and a strike rate of 161.11.
In 71 career Twenty20 innings, Salt has scored 1709 runs at a strike-rate of 157.36.
Throughout his T20 career, Salt has smashed 193 boundaries and cleared the fences 63 times.
Salt has 13 T20 half-centuries to his name, with a high score of 78*. He has finished unbeaten in six innings, including a 67* for the Strikers which came off 38 deliveries.
In 2013, at 17 years of age, Salt finished with an unbeaten double century from 129 deliveries in a Sussex Premier League fixture.
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The Adelaide Strikers are an Australian professional Twenty20 cricket team based in Adelaide, South Australia, competing in the Big Bash League (BBL). Established in 2011, they succeeded the Southern Redbacks, who played in the now-defunct KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. The Strikers play their home games at the Adelaide Oval and wear a cornflower blue uniform.
