Zimbabwe Pacer Blessing Muzarbani Joins RCB Ahead Of IPL 2025 Playoffs

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Last Updated:May 26, 2025, 15:31 IST

Blessing Muzarbani has played 70 T20Is for Zimbabwe, claiming 78 wickets.

Blessing Muzarbani was antecedently associated with LSG arsenic nett bowler. (Image Credit: X/RCBTweets)

Zimbabwe pacer Blessing Muzarabani joined Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) connected Monday up of the IPL 2025 playoffs.

Muzarabani has been signed by RCB arsenic a impermanent replacement for Lungi Ngidi, who volition beryllium leaving to articulation South Africa for their preparations up of the World Test Championship (WTC) final. The Zimbabwe pacer was signed by RCB for Rs 75 lakh.

Muzarabani participated successful Zimbabwe’s historical Test against England astatine Trent Bridge, which the visiting broadside mislaid by an innings and 75 runs connected Saturday. He emerged arsenic the highest wicket-taker for Zimbabwe with figures of 3/143.

The 28-year-old volition beryllium disposable for RCB’s last league signifier crippled against Lucknow Super Giants successful Lucknow connected Tuesday. He has played 70 T20Is for Zimbabwe, claiming 78 wickets, and has besides represented Zimbabwe successful 13 Tests and 55 ODIs.

Although Muzarabani has not yet featured successful an IPL match, helium has antecedently served arsenic a nett bowler for LSG erstwhile RCB’s existent caput manager Andy Flower was portion of their coaching setup. The duo has besides collaborated astatine Multan Sultans successful the PSL and Gulf Giants successful the ILT20.

On Sunday, Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood rejoined the squad aft recovering from a enarthrosis injury, further strengthening their bowling arsenal for the knockout stages.

Hazlewood, RCB’s starring wicket-taker this play with 18 scalps from conscionable 10 matches, had been sidelined since April. He returned to Australia during the IPL’s little suspension pursuing cross-border tensions betwixt India and Pakistan.

He completed rehabilitation astatine location and resumed grooming successful Brisbane arsenic portion of Australia’s mentation for the upcoming WTC last against South Africa. Having successfully travel done those sessions, helium is present backmost with the RCB squad.

RCB are poised to decorativeness successful the apical 2 with a triumph against LSG successful Lucknow. However, a nonaccomplishment would spot them either 3rd oregon fourth, careless of the effect of Monday’s brushwood betwixt Mumbai Indians and Punjab Kings astatine Sawai Mansingh Stadium successful Jaipur.

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