Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on Monday decided to include Kedar Jadhav as the replacement for England all-rounder David Willey for the remainder of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 season. Willey played four matches for RCB this season and scalped three wickets. His injury is, however, unspecified.
Jadhav began his IPL career in 2010 with Delhi Daredevils (now Capitals) against RCB, becoming one of just nine Indians to score a half-century on debut. He has played 93 games in the IPL, scoring 1196 runs. The right-handed batter has previously represented RCB in 17 matches during the 2016-17 seasons. Jadhav, who last featured in the IPL in 2021, was roped in by RCB for INR 1 crore.
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Kedar Jadhav was out of limited-overs cricket since November 2021 before making a comeback for a couple of games in the Vijay Hazare Trophy in November 2022. The 38-year-old then relished a superb comeback to First-Class cricket by cracking 283 in his first FC match in four years since January 2019.
Jadhav’s century was also his first First Class ton since late 2018 and his first score of more than 200 runs since his record-breaking 2013-14 Ranji Trophy season, where he emerged as the leading run-scorer with 1223 runs in 17 innings. Jadhav’s highest first-class score of 327 came in the 2012-13 season against Uttar Pradesh.
Kedar Jadhav had featured in 73 ODIs and 9 T20Is for India and is also the only Indian batter to maintain 40-plus average and 100-plus strike rate in ODIs (min. 1000 runs).
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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Squad: Virat Kohli(c), Shahbaz Ahmed, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik(w), Suyash Prabhudessai, Wanindu Hasaranga, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Faf du Plessis, Akash Deep, Karn Sharma, Finn Allen, Anuj Rawat, Michael Bracewell, Siddarth Kaul, Sonu Yadav, Manoj Bhandage, Wayne Parnell, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Himanshu Sharma, Kedar Jadhav
