TATA IPL 2023: This Australian pacer is likely to miss the start of season for RCB

Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood, who will play for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL in 2023, will miss a few games while his Achilles heals. The Australian pacer, who has been sent home for treatment, will also miss the final two Test matches against India. The RCB pacer’s availability for the team’s opening game against the Mumbai Indians on April 2 is still unknown.

Hazlewood’s exclusion from the three-match ODI series against India that begins on March 17 dealt a severe blow to Australia. Hazlewood’s difficulty in controlling Achilles led Australia to decide to have him sent back.

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“Just a bit of workload management at the moment. Just managing the Achilles. I was bowling a fair bit leading into the tour at home and sort of just pushing up against it,” Hazlewood said. “Probably wasn’t recovering as well as I would have liked between each session, so thought we’d give it a few days here straight off the bat and try and get over the hump and have a bowl from Tuesday on (in Nagpur) and hope it goes well.”

On the other hand, RCB received good news. For the ODI series against India, Maxwell is selected. The all-rounder could play a full IPL season for RCB without missing any games if he shows his fitness in these three games.