Australia and RCB leg-spinner Adam Zampa will miss the opening encounter of the IPL 2021 against Mumbai Indians due to his marriage. RCB's Director of Cricket Mike Hesson confirmed via a video on the franchise's Twitter page that the leggie would be missing the opener of the tournament.
"We won't have our full contingent of overseas players available for the first game," Hesson told on Bold Diaries. "Adam Zampa is getting married. It's an important time for him and it's something that as a franchise we are aware of and we respect and we hope he has a great time. So when he joins us, once again he is going to be fresh and make a massive contribution to the rest of the tournament."
RCB are scheduled to begin the campaign against MI in Chennai.
Zampa was one of the players retained by the RCB franchise ahead of the mini auctions that were held last month in Chennai. The right-arm bowler has been a part of 14 IPL matches picking up a total of 21 wickets.
RCB bought a total of seven players in the auctions this year. Glenn Maxwell, Kyle Jamieson and Daniel Christian were the overseas players bought by the franchise while Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Azharuddeen and Suyash Prabhudessai have been the uncapped Indians in the squad.
The franchise will be looking to have a successful IPL campaign in this edition. They have reached the finals thrice in earlier seasons but have failed to lift the trophy.