IPL 2025: South Africa gave a big shock to BCCI, called all the players back on this day
IPL 2025 was postponed for a week due to India-Pakistan tension. On Monday, the board announced that the league is starting again on 17 May, while the final match will be played on 3 June. After the new schedule of the board, the tension of all franchises has increased because questions are being raised about the participation of foreign players. On Tuesday, news agency PTI quoted BCCI sources claiming that the board and franchisees were talking to the players at their respective levels. At the same time, in another report, it has been claimed that Cricket South Africa has asked all its players to come back before 26 May.
Cricbing Report According to, Cricket South Africa (CSA) has said that it wants to bring its players back home by 26 May. There are 20 South Africa players in this year’s edition of IPL 2025, but on Tuesday (May 13), eight of them have been selected in the team for the World Test Championship (WTC) finals to be held at Lord’s from June 11.
South African team team head coach Shukri Konrad said on Tuesday, “The initial agreement with IPL and BCCI was with the final on May 25, our players will return on 26th so that they can get enough time before flying on the 30th. Nothing has changed from our point of view.”
Conrad further said, “This is the ongoing conversation between people with higher pay scale people, ie Cricket Director (Hanok NKway) and Foletesi Moseki (CSA CEO), so they are dealing with it. But as the situation is, we are not backing on it, we don’t think. We want our players to come back on the 26th and hope that it will be successful.”
Corbin Bosch (Mumbai Indians), Vian Mulder (Sunrisers Hyderabad) Marco Johnson (Punjab Kings), Aden Markram (Lucknow Supergiants), Lungi Engidi (Royal Challengers Bangalore), Cagiso Rabada (Gujarat Titans), Ryan Recllett (Mumbai Indians) and Triston Stabs (Delhi Capitals) The final has been kept in the team.
Sunrisers Hyderabad is out of the race to make it to the playoffs and the team will play their last match against defending champions KKR on 25 May. In such a situation, it is believed that Mulder may be one of the players who return on May 26. The same can be possible with LSG players as their possibility of reaching the playoffs despite his last game played against RCB on 27 May.
When a senior CSA officer was approached, he said that talks are going on with BCCI. CSA Cricket Director Anoche Nakwe said, “We are still discussing with IPL and BCCI.” The selected players have been asked to gather on 31 May in Arundel (a city in England). He will play a practice match against Zimbabwe from 3-6 June before going to London on 7 June for the WTC final.
Apart from the players selected in the WTC Final team, other South African players in the IPL Dewald Bravis (Replacement player in Chennai Super Kings), Faf du Plessis and Donovan Ferrera (Delhi Capitals), Garald Koetzi (Gujarat Titans), Quinton de Kock and Anrich Nortzers (Kolkata Knight Riders), David Miller, Mithi Breetzke (Lucknow Super Giants), Nandre Burger, Quen Mafaka, Luan-Dre Pretorius (Rajasthan Royals) and Henriqu Klassen (Sunrisers Hyderabad).
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