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Phil Salt flies to England for finger scans, RCB await update

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) opener Phil Salt has returned to England for scans on his injured finger, which has kept him out of the team’s last three matches in IPL 2026. In his absence, fellow England player Jacob Bethell has been opening the batting alongside Virat Kohli.

Foreign service

So two intra-squad practice matches in Durham had been spoken of before vague assurances of a game with a combined XI of county players came to be made.

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