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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Russell signs with Knights again

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BLOEM­FONTEIN-West In­dies all-rounder An­dre Rus­sell will cam­paign in the South African Ram Slam Twen­ty20 League for a sec­ond straight year af­ter sign­ing for VKB Knights ahead Sun­day's start of the new cam­paign.Rus­sell, cur­rent­ly on tour with the West In­dies lim­it­ed overs side in Sri Lan­ka, is set to link up with the Knights from No­vem­ber 15.

Last sea­son, the 27-year-old was one of the lead­ing play­ers for the Knights, scor­ing 182 runs at an av­er­age of 30 and a strike-rate of 200, to fire them in­to the fi­nal of the cham­pi­onship where they even­tu­al­ly lost to Co­bras.His half-cen­tu­ry against Dol­phins at Di­a­mond Oval–one of two he scored in the com­pe­ti­tion–came from 19 balls and equalled the fastest-ever Twen­ty20 fifty in South African do­mes­tic crick­et.

The in­nings cat­a­pult­ed Knights in­to the play­offs.Rus­sell was al­so great with the ball, tak­ing 13 wick­ets at an econ­o­my rate of sev­en.

The Ja­maican has emerged as one of the most in-de­mand T20 glob­al stars and al­so rep­re­sents Kolkata Knight Rid­ers in the mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar In­di­an Pre­mier League.

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