IPL 2023: Good and Bad news for RCB Fans; Injured Will Jacks replacing with Kiwis Star All Rounder

RCB 2023: Before the start of IPL 2023, Faf du Plessis-led Royal Challengers Bangalore suffered a major setback. Despite this, the team has got another new happy news. Before the start of IPL 2023, the Faf du Plessis-led Royal Challengers Bangalore team has heard bad news as well as good news. IPL 2023: Good and Bad news for RCB Fans; Injured Will Jacks replacing with Kiwis Star All Rounder.

England’s explosive batsman Will Jacks has been ruled out of the entire tournament due to injury. But Mitchell Bracewell of the Kiwis team has been selected in his place. Now, the RCB franchise has managed to attract star all-rounder Mitchell Braswell from New Zealand to replace Will Jacks after he left the team.

Mitchell Bracewell has so far played 6 Tests, 19 ODIs and 16 T20Is for New Zealand. Will Jacks was injured during the Bangladesh tour. Due to this he has walked out of IPL. RCB have included Will Jacks as cover for Glenn Maxwell.

Will Jacks is also one of the best T20 batsmen. He has so far scored 2802 runs in 109 matches including 1 century and 23 fifties. Will Jacks has hit 140 sixes in T20Is. Thus, in the IPL mini-auction held a few days ago, the RCB franchise weighed a lot and bought England batsman Will Jacks for Rs 3.2 crore.

The 24-year-old England batsman Will Jacks scored more than 150 runs at a strike rate in T20 cricket. But he got injured during the T20 series against Bangladesh and now he is out of the entire IPL tournament. RCB’s first match will be on April 3 against Mumbai Indians at Chinnaswamy stadium. But fans can meet the players a week before the match. ‘RCB unboxing’ event is all set to give a big surprise.

RCB Squad: Faf du Plessis (C), Finn Allen, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Suyash Prabhudesai, Will Jacks, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Vanindu Hasranga, Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sonu Yadav. Manoj Bhandage, Akash Bhandage, Joe Hazlewood, Siddharth Kaul, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, David Willey (ENG), Avinash Singh, Rajan Kumar, Reese Topley, Himanshu Sharma.

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