Royal Challengers Bangalore have announced that they have replaced Kane Richardson with Adam Zampa for this year’s IPL.
Richardson has pulled out of the tournament as he is expecting the birth of his first child, reports state.
RCB on Twitter wrote, “The RCB family is excited for Kane and his wife who are expecting the birth of their first child and respect his decision to pull out of the tournament”.
Zampa will be joining the RCB’s spin attack which includes Ali, Chahal, Sundar, Negi, Ahmed.
Zampa represented Pune Rising Supergiants for two years and picked up 19 wickets.
Most importantly, he has an extraordinary record against Kohli in the limited overs.
IPL will begin from September 19th and will go on till November 10th.
RCB squad: Virat Kohli (C), Aaron Finch, Devdutt Padikkal, Chris Morris, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Isuru Udana, Moeen Ali, Pavan Deshpande, Pawan Negi, Shahbaz Ahmed, Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, AB de Villiers, Josh Philippe, Parthiv Patel, Dale Steyn, Adam Zampa, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal.
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