This deadly player will return to RCB team, coach Mike Hesson told the date of return

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Royal Challengers Bangalore, RCB

IPL 2023, RCB: In IPL 2023, many teams are struggling with the problem of injury. One of them is Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). This team is forced to play without players like Rajat Patidar, Josh Hazlewood. At the same time, Reece Topley was also ruled out due to a shoulder injury in the first match against KKR. Patidar has already been out for the entire season. Topley, on the other hand, may be out of the team for the next two weeks. Meanwhile, coach Mike Hesson has given a good news from which RCB fans can heave a sigh of relief.

Actually, Hesson has confirmed the return of Josh Hazlewood in a video shared by RCB on Twitter handle. Also, Mike Hesson has also told that Josh Hazlewood will join the team on 14 April. At the same time, he/she also replied on the availability of Sri Lankan spinner Wanindu Hasarangi and said that he/she will join the team after finishing the series against New Zealand. At the same time, coach Hesson also accepted the point of missing Rajat Patidar.

Josh Hazlewood

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Josh Hazlewood

In the RCB video, when Mike Hesson was asked about Wanindu Hasaranga and Josh Hazlewood joining the team, he/she said that Hasaranga is currently with the national team on the tour of New Zealand. The Sri Lankan spinner will join RCB as soon as he/she finishes. Apart from this, Josh Hazlewood will join the team on 14 April. That is, he/she will be available for the team in the team’s fourth match against Delhi on 15 April. At present, there is a big problem for the team, before that they have to play two matches.

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Trouble for RCB

Josh Hazlewood will join till the fourth match and Reece Topley is out for two weeks with a shoulder problem. In such a situation, the lack of a pacer can hurt the team. Although, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel and Akash Deep Singh are there but the lack of an overseas pacer will cost the team in the next two matches. RCB will play their second match against KKR on Thursday. And the team has to play the third match against Lucknow Super Giants on Monday, April 10. Hazlewood will join the team till the fourth match, then there is every possibility of solving this problem. RCB started their campaign with a win by defeating Mumbai Indians in the first match.

Full squad of RCB

Faf du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Anuj Rawat, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Suyyash Prabhudesai, Karn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, David Willey, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Manoj Bhandge, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Sonu Yadav, Michael Bracewell.