Rajasthan Royals signed left-arm wrist spinner Tabraiz Shamsi from South Africa on Wednesday for the balance of the 2021 Indian Premier League season, which begins on September 19 in the United Arab Emirates. Shamsi, the world's best T20I bowler according to the ICC rankings, will be the Royals' second replacement player. In 2017, the Johannesburg-born 31-year-old made his international debut for South Africa in a bilateral T20I series against England. Since then, the left-arm leg spinner has 45 wickets in 39 T20Is and 32 wickets in 27 ODIs for South Africa.
In the IPL, Shamsi has played 4 matches in which he picked up 3 wickets for Royals Challengers Bangalore, who had recruited him as a replacement player during the 2016 season. Meanwhile, Australian bowler Andrew Tye, who had returned home during the first round of the IPL due to the COVID-19 epidemic, has announced that he will miss the rest of the season.
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"It is with great regret that I have to pull out of the remainder of the IPL 2021 with the Rajasthan Royals," Tye said in a release issued by the franchise."It has been a long year for me which has kept me away from home for a lengthy period, and the disappointment of not making it to the World Cup squad has added to the dismay." "Therefore, keeping my best interests in mind, I had to make this tough decision of staying at home and preparing myself mentally and physically for next year's T20 World Cup."
In April, another RR player, Liam Livingstone, flew back to England claiming bio-bubble exhaustion. Rajasthan Royals are presently in fifth place in the points table, having won three and lost four of their seven games.
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