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Royal Challengers Bangalore to Miss Injured Samuel Badree in IPL 2016
Royal Challengers Bangalore had signed up West Indian World T20 winner Samuel Badree as their main leg-spinner for IPL 2016 season.
Samuel Badree will miss the 2016 IPL for Royal Challengers Bangalore due to a shoulder injury he sustained in the World T20 final against England.© AFP
Highlights
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Samuel Badree plays for the West Indies
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The wily leg-spinner had been recruited by RCB
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He last played in the World Twenty20 final
Bengaluru:
Royal Challengers Bangalore's West Indian recruit, Samuel Badree, has been ruled out of Indian Premier League with an injury, and replaced by Tabraiz Shamsi of South Africa.
The Windies leg-spinner had injured himself during the World Twenty20 final on April 3 and has not played a game since then.
He will be replaced by chinaman bowler Tabraiz Shamsi, who plays for South African franchise Titans.
Shamsi, 26, previously played in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) after catching the eye of the touring West Indies in South Africa in 2014-15.
He enjoyed reasonable success at the CPL, claiming 11 wickets in seven games at an average of 13.27 for St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in 2015.
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