Gujarat Titans pacer Kagiso Rabada returned to South Africa earlier in the season, citing personal reasons. However, there have been no updates on when he will return to the Indian Premier League 2025. However, ahead of the Gujarat Titans’ match against Delhi Capitals, skipper Shubman Gill would give an update on the Proteas pacemen.
“In the next ten days or so,” said Gill. “The South African international was a part of the Gujarat Titans’ first two matches of the IPL 2025. Kagiso Rabada has returned to South Africa to deal with an important personal matter,” the Gujarat Titans said in a statement earlier.
Rabada on freedom at Titans
Speaking to the Indian Express, Rabada would tell about the Titans’ pace attack. “The players have been given the freedom, and everything is well organized and chilled out to be honest, but there’s a lot of hard work being done behind the scenes. I’m really enjoying working with Ashish (Nehra). It’s a great bunch of lads with a nice bowling attack, with good pace, which will suit the Ahmedabad conditions.”
“Using saliva and sweat are two different aspects… they have different textures, though I can’t explain scientifically how it affects the ball. Let’s see how this IPL goes with saliva being used again. It’s definitely interesting,” Rabada would give his view about letting the fielding team apply saliva on the ball and if needed another ball can be taken in the second innings after 10 overs if there were to be any dew after the authorization of umpires.
Gujarat Titans squad: Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Jos Buttler(w), Washington Sundar, Sherfane Rutherford, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Arshad Khan, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Mahipal Lomror, Nishant Sindhu, Anuj Rawat, Jayant Yadav, Kulwant Khejroliya, Ishant Sharma, Dasun Shanaka, Karim Janat, Gerald Coetzee, Manav Suthar, Kumar Kushagra, Gurnoor Brar
