The IPL 2025 auction was recently held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on 24 and 25 November. Many players were bought in this auction. While many players remained unsold. Every team bet on some important player. Royal Challengers Bangalore also bought players during this period. The most talked about among them was Phil Salt. England's Phil Salt has previously played for Kolkata Knight Riders. Whereas he has now become a part of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). After this, some of his batting statistics in T-20 have come to light which can shock the senses of other teams too.

RCB bought Salt for Rs 11.50 crore

Royal Challengers Bangalore have added Phil Salt for IPL 2025 for Rs 11.50 crore. Salt is known for his explosive batting. RCB's batting coach and mentor Dinesh Karthik himself has shared some statistics of his T20 batting. It is clear from this that the decline of bowlers is going to come in 2025. In a video that surfaced recently, Dinesh Karthik is seen talking about Salt's stormy batting.

PHIL SALT Batting Stats

• 28% of the time gets 6-8runs per over.
• 30% of times gets 12-15runs per over.
• One in Four overs he will hit 16+ plus runs in an over..
• One in Two overs basically he goes for 12runs..#rcb #PlayBold #IPL2025 pic.twitter.com/ldLBqWY7fE

— ᴅᴋ (@coach_dk19) December 10, 2024

Salt's T20 statistics are very dangerous

In a video, Dinesh Karthik is analyzing the batting of Phil Salt. Let us tell you that Karthik has also played for RCB. After the 2024 IPL, RCB made him batting coach and mentor. Karthik is seen doing his work very well already. He is telling in the video that 28 percent of the time he scores 6 to 8 runs in the salt over. And 30 percent of the time they score 12 to 15 runs in an over. Whereas Salt scores more than 16 runs in one out of four overs. Apart from this, he scores up to 12 runs in one out of two overs.

Salt's strike rate in IPL is more than 175

After playing for Kolkata in the Indian Premier League, Phil Salt will now be seen in RCB. Phil can open with veteran batsman Virat Kohli. Till now he has scored 653 runs in 21 innings of 21 matches in IPL. His highest score is 89 runs not out. Salt's strike rate in IPL is 175.5. Now it will be interesting to see whether he will be successful in getting RCB the IPL trophy for the first time with his explosive game or not.