We know England has been eliminated from the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024 after facing a loss against India in the Semi-final 2 of the 9th edition of the marquee event. But if we have to talk about a young player who has impressed the most in the ongoing World Cup was Phil Salt, who was playing his 2nd ICC event for the English team after performing well in the concluded 17th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) from Kolkata Knight Riders franchise, where he scored 435 runs in 12 games with an average of 39 having 4 half-centuries and 1 hundred to his name before leaving the team for National Duties. Salt's impressive performance not only helped them to reach in the finals but also lifted their 3rd IPL trophy. Through this article, we are going to talk about Phil Salt's cricketing career, wife, family, age and unknown records.

Early Life

Philip Dean Salt was born on August 28, 1996, in Bodelwyddan, Wales. He began playing cricket in St Asaph and played for the North East Wales Under-11s. He attended school in Chester, and when he was 10 years old his family moved to Barbados, where he started playing with England colleague Jofra Archer. However, after getting a cricket scholarship at Reed's School, Salt returned to the United Kingdom at the age of 15.

Domestic Career

After returning to England Salt Salt, played for Guildford Cricket Club, before being signed to the Sussex Academy for the 2014 season. Later, Salt played Second XI matches as well as playing in the 2014 Sussex Cricket League Premier Division for a Sussex Cricket Board Development XI, where in the Sussex Premier League, Salt gave an impressive performance in 2 back-to-back matches with 200 runs from 129 balls in a match against Horsham, before  147* against the Preston Nomads, for which he was awarded the Player of the Month trophy.

After Salt's impressive performance, he made his List A debut in a 2015 Royal London One-Day Cup match against Essex; where he became the 29th different player to play for Sussex in the 2015 Royal London One-Day Cup. In 2016, he made his Twenty20 debut on 20 May 2016 for Sussex against Gloucestershire in the 2016 NatWest t20 Blast before making his first-class debut for Sussex during Pakistan's tour of England on July 8, 2016. 

After performing well in domestic and List A matches, Salt was signed by Adelaide Strikers as one of their overseas players for the 2019–20 Big Bash League season. However, he was bought up by the Delhi-based franchise in the 2023 IPL season for a whopping price of 2 Crrore but didn't get enough chance to play.

International Career

Phil Salt was picked in the English Squad in the place of Dawid Malan, who got injured in a T20I match against Pakistan, but did not get a chance to play. However, Salt was named in England Cricket Team in ODI squad for their series against Pakistan, after the original squad for the tour tested positive for COVID-19.  He also made his ODI debut on 8 July 2021, for England against Pakistan. Later, in December 2021, Salt was named in England's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against the West Indies. He made his T20I debut on 26 January 2022, for England against the West Indies.

Salt showed his prowess by scoring his first century against the Netherlands,  in ODI cricket, with 122 runs, which was also recorded as the highest score in ODI and List A history of 498 runs with Salt being one of three centurions alongside Dawid Malan and Jos Buttler.

Phil Salt was the part of England team, which won the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2022. Although, made two appearances at the tournament, playing in both the semi-final and final of the competition.

Salt was named in both the ODI and T20 squads for England's 2023-24 tour of the West Indies. In the third T20I of the series, he hit his maiden T20 international century, becoming the fifth England men's batter to do so. You might not know but Salt became the first England men's batter to hit two centuries in international T20 cricket, and only the third men's batter to hit back-to-back international T20 centuries