IPL Delhi Capitals’ overseas fast bowling battery of 2021 table toppers, Kagiso Rabada, Enrique Nortje and Ben Dwarshuis, has landed in the UAE and reached the team hotel in Dubai on Wednesday ahead of the resumption of the second leg of the Indian Premier League (IPL) . ) 2021.
According to Treports, all three players were tested for COVID-19 on arrival and all of them tested negative. Delhi Capitals said, “Delhi Capitals fast bowlers Kagiso Rabada and Enrique Nortje of South Africa and Ben Dwarshuis of Australia arrived at the Team Hotel in Dubai on Wednesday, 15 September 2021. All players were tested for COVID-19 upon arrival. ” Statement.
“Dwarshui will be in quarantine for six days, meanwhile, South African players have directly entered the Delhi Capitals bio-bubble from the bio-bubble set up for the recently concluded ODI and T20I series in Sri Lanka,” it said. .
Ben Dwarshuis was brought in by Delhi Capitals as a replacement for their English bowler Chris Woakes, who pulled out of the UAE leg of the Indian Premier League, 2021. So far, Dwarshui has taken 100 wickets in 82 T20Is at an average of 23.73. He represents the Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League and is the sixth-highest wicket-taker in the history of the tournament with 85 wickets in 69 matches.
Chris Woakes has revealed that he pulled out of the cash-rich league as playing three back-to-back tournaments would have been too difficult, so he chose the T20 World Cup 2021 and the Ashes series over the IPL.
“With the World Cup and the Ashes, it would have been too much in a short amount of time. I would have loved to be a part of the IPL but something has to be paid,” Woakes told The Guardian.
Delhi Capitals will take on Sunrisers Hyderabad on 22 September at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
(with IANS inputs)
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