IPL 2025: Tim Seifert Replaces Star 21-Year-Old Allrounder At RCB As Playoffs Beckon

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Last Updated:May 22, 2025, 14:34 IST

Tim Seifert volition regenerate Jacob Bethell successful Royal Challengers Bengaluru squad arsenic the second volition articulation England for ODIs against West Indies starting May 29.

Tim Seifert volition regenerate Jacob Bethell successful IPL 2025 (Picture credit: AFP)

Veteran Kiwi wicketkeeper-batter Tim Seifert has replaced Jacob Bethell successful the Royal Challengers Bengaluru squad, arsenic the second is each acceptable to permission to execute his duties for the England nationalist team, who volition beryllium taking connected the West Indies successful 3 ODIs starting May 29.

The replacement volition beryllium effectual from Saturday, May 24, arsenic Bethell volition permission aft Bengaluru’s lucifer against the Sunrisers Hyderabad connected May 23.

Notably, Seifert is playing for the Karachi Kings successful the Pakistan Super League, and his accomplishment successful India volition beryllium connected however his franchise progresses.

Karachi are each acceptable to play the Pakistan Super League Eliminator against the Lahore Qalandars connected Thursday night, portion the last is slated for Sunday, May 25 successful Lahore.

Opening the innings with David Warner successful Karachi, Seifert has till present scored 226 runs successful 9 innings arsenic an opener astatine a onslaught complaint of 145.8.

Seifert, who has scored 1540 runs successful 66 T20s for the Blackcaps, has played conscionable 3 games successful the Indian Premier League and past featured successful the tourney 3 years agone for the Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders. He volition articulation Bengaluru for Rs 2 crores.

Bethell’s past lucifer with RCB volition beryllium connected Friday erstwhile they instrumentality connected the Sunrisers Hyderabad, which was moved from Bengaluru to Lucknow owed to adverse upwind conditions successful the former. Their last league lucifer volition beryllium against the Lucknow Super Giants connected May 27.

Bethell has till present featured successful 2 games for Bengaluru successful his maiden Indian Premier League season.

Replacing an unwell compatriot Phil Salt successful the lineup, Bethell smacked a 33-ball 55 successful his erstwhile innings against the Chennai Super Kings connected Saturday, May 3.

Besides Bethell, Bengaluru are uncertain implicit the availability of Josh Hazlewood, who is successful Brisbane astatine Cricket Australia’s High-Performance Centre successful mentation for June’s WTC Final.

Last Friday, Bengaluru manager Mo Bobat said that they had been successful interaction with Cricket Australia implicit Hazlewood, but they were adopting a wait-and-watch attack arsenic helium recovers from a enarthrosis niggle that helium picked up up of RCB’s crippled against Chennai.

Punjab Kings, Gujarat Titans and the Mumbai Indians are the different franchises to person made the play-offs.

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