Yash Dayal won’t be part of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) squad for IPL 2026. Mo Bobat, the RCB director of cricket, confirmed that Dayal stays contracted with the workforce, however will probably be unavailable for the whole season.
“Spoke to him earlier today; but decided it’s not in his and franchise’s best interest to join the squad due to the personal situation he’s dealing with,” Bobat mentioned in a press convention on Tuesday. He didn’t go into additional element.
Dayal has not performed any matches for the reason that last of IPL 2025 in June, and faces authorized expenses relating to sexual assault.
“Yash Dayal situation was tricky,” Bobat mentioned. “We went into auction planning in a worst-case scenario that he won’t be available.”
Dayal’s unavailability deepens one thing of a fast-bowling disaster at RCB, with Australia quick Josh Hazlewood additionally set to miss the early part of the season as he recovers from long-standing damage points.
Bobat mentioned RCB had been liaising with Cricket Australia (CA) and hoped to “have him very soon”.
Without Hazlewood and Dayal, RCB’s fast-bowling shares encompass the skilled India swing bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar, uncapped Indian quicks Rasikh Salam, Abhinandan Singh and Mangesh Yadav, abroad quicks Jacob Duffy and Nuwan Thushara, and the West Indies allrounder Romario Shepherd.
