Dasun shanaka gujarat titans: Gujarat Titans have announced the replacement of Glenn Philips. Gujarat has included Sri Lankan player Dasun Shanaka in the team. Philips was injured during the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2025. After this, the team gave Shanaka a chance. Shanaka is an all -rounder player and has shown amazing on many occasions. Along with his batting, there is a good record in bowling.

Actually, Gujarat’s fourth match in IPL 2025 was from Hyderabad. The match was played on 6 April at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium. He was fielding for Gujarat during the match. They were injured during fielding. He has not been able to play a single match for the team this season. But the substitute against Hyderabad took to the field as a player. He came on the field during the fifth over of Hyderabad’s innings. But after getting injured, he went out of the field.

How much salary will be given to Gujarat Titans Shanaka –

Gujarat has now included Shanaka in the team in place of Glenn Philips. They will get 75 lakh rupees as a salary. Shanaka has been able to play only once in IPL. He was part of Gujarat in IPL 2023. He played 3 matches this season.

Shanaka has been performing so far –

Shanaka’s T20 record has been excellent. He has played 243 matches so far. During this, 4449 runs have been scored. Shanaka has scored 3 centuries and 16 half -centuries in T20. He has also taken 91 wickets with this. Shanaka has also played 102 T20 International matches. He has scored 1456 runs here. There are also 33 wickets with this. He has played 71 ODIs for Sri Lanka. It has scored 1299 runs. During this time, you have taken 27 wickets.

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Glenn Phillips Injury: Glen Philips, one of New Zealand’s Dhakad cricketer and one of the best fielders in the world, had not yet played in IPL 2025. Now the Gujarat Titans fielded him as a substitute against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Before that he could win the hearts of fans with his tremendous fielding, Philips went out of the field due to injury. Recall that Philips was bought by Gujarat for Rs 2 crore in the mega auction.

This incident is of the sixth over of Sunrisers Hyderabad’s innings. Ishaan Kishan ran for a run off the fourth ball of the famous Krishna’s over. Meanwhile, Glenn Philips threw thrown at the speed of electricity. Immediately after throwing the ball, the Philips fell on the ground while hitting Gulatiyan. Physio was immediately called on the field, which took Philips out of the field. So far no official statement has been revealed on the injury of Philips.

Not a single match played in IPL 2025

Glenn Philips is currently one of the best fielders in the world. White ball has established a special identity for his stormy innings in cricket. Despite this, the management of the Gujarat team has not given Philips a chance to play a single match in IPL 2025 yet. Philips has so far scored only 65 runs in 8 matches played in the Indian Premier League and has also taken 2 wickets playing the role of all -rounder.

In this entire match, Gujarat Titans head coach Aashese Nehra looked quite active as usual. He was seen screaming due to Sai Sudarshan leaving the catch. Apparently, he must have been very disappointed even after the injury of Philips.

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