{"id":555478,"date":"2026-03-21T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555478\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:52:09","slug":"reeza-hendricks-replaces-johnson-charles-at-karachi-kings-for-psl-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555478\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeza Hendricks replaces Johnson Charles at Karachi Kings for PSL 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/karachi-kings-953835\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karachi Kings<\/a> have brought in South Africa batter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/reeza-hendricks-269280\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reeza Hendricks<\/a> into their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/pakistan-super-league-2026-1515734\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PSL 2026<\/a> squad as a late replacement. Hendricks replaces West Indies opener <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/johnson-charles-333066\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Johnson Charles<\/a>, who will miss the season for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Hendricks&#8217; second stint in the PSL. He represented Multan Sultans in 2024, scoring 304 runs in eight innings at an average of 43.42 and a strike rate of 134.51. An experienced top-order batter, Hendricks has played 296 T20s and has 64 fifties and five centuries in the format.<\/p>\n<p>Hendricks adds to Kings&#8217; experienced overseas contingent that includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/david-warner-219889\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Warner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/adam-zampa-379504\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Zampa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/moeen-ali-8917\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moeen Ali<\/a> and UAE&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/muhammad-waseem-1241277\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muhammad Waseem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kings enter PSL 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/psl-2026-can-karachi-kings-go-the-distance-are-multan-sultans-back-1528511\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">looking to build on<\/a> their third-place finish last season, which was also their first playoffs finish since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Their campaign starts against Quetta Gladiators, the losing finalists from last season, on March 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karachi Kings have brought in South Africa batter Reeza Hendricks into their PSL 2026 squad as a late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-555478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}