Putting your mindset and body first is priority Jason Roy

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New Delhi . England opening batsman Jason Roy has said that he had to withdraw from the ongoing IPL 2024 season, where he was to play with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), to put his ‘mindset and body first’.

Roy’s withdrawal from IPL 2024 meant that KKR had to sign fellow England opener Phil Salt. Roy came to KKR in IPL 2023 after Shreyas Iyer was ruled out with a lower back injury and Shakib Al Hasan was unavailable for the season and scored 285 runs in eight matches at an average of 35.63 and a strike-rate of 151.60. Which included two half-centuries.

I think missing this year’s IPL was a very big decision. KKR trusted me so much by retaining me after a good year last year and being available for them throughout the year and in all other competitions, I felt like I owed them.

It was a huge decision, but I took this decision just because it was my daughter’s fifth birthday,” Roy said in the latest episode of The Athlete’s Voice podcast. I was quite tired after the beginning of my year.

This year, after being left out of England’s squad for the 2023 Men’s ODI World Cup in India, Roy played SA20 for Durban Super Giants before representing Abu Dhabi Knight Riders in two ILT20 matches. He will play for Quetta Gladiators in PSL 2024.

I have not come from playing much cricket, so I was very honest towards KKR and we have a great relationship. “Agreement on why I am not coming and things like that,” he said. They completely understood, so I’m very grateful to them for that, but I had to put myself first.

Roy’s withdrawal from IPL 2024 also builds on the learnings from two years ago, when he was forced to take an indefinite break from the game and missed IPL 2022 for Gujarat Titans. That was a huge learning for me, you know, to be able to make this decision this year, and it may look a certain way. But it has nothing to do with anything else.

It’s your decision – I have a young family, I’m an adult man and I made this decision after a lot of thought. I just woke up one morning and thought, you know what – I don’t really feel like going on that flight to India’.

He concluded that there has been a lot of thought put into it, and it becomes much easier to talk about it and it becomes much easier to make decisions, just because you know, especially from past experiences, what it is for you. Can do.

–IANS

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