NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) have began preparations for the 2026 version of the Indian Premier League at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. While some high Indian stars, led by Virat Kohli, have been in attendance, bowler Yash Dayal stays a notable absentee. He wasn’t noticed with the group on their first day of the camp on March 18 and continues to be lacking from motion.
Rajat Patidar, Krunal Pandya, Jitesh Sharma, Suyash Sharma, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are outstanding names making ready for the title defence beneath the teaching workers led by Andy Flower, however Dayal’s mysterious absence has already raised eyebrows.There are photos of RCB’s staff bus circulating on social media, and Dayal just isn’t seen in these, both. Additionally, the a number of social media posts by the franchise don’t point out the bowler.In a video uploaded by his spouse, Shweta Pundir, on Instagram, Dayal may be seen receiving throwdowns from a side-arm specialist, however he appeared far-off from the motion in Bengaluru.
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TimesofIndia.com reached out to a number of RCB officers for an replace on Dayal, however they’re but to reply. The franchise retained the cricketer for Rs 5 crore forward of final 12 months’s mini-auction in Jeddah and obtained important backlash due to the authorized case in opposition to the cricketer at the moment.Dayal’s final aggressive look was in June 2025 when he performed for RCB within the IPL closing in opposition to the Punjab Kings. Since then, the bowler has been sidelined from aggressive cricket. Uttar Pradesh didn’t take into account him for your complete home season. It has been learnt that the BCCI Centre of Excellence contacted the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) final September to examine on the bowler, however the officers couldn’t set up contact with him. “The case was going on against him, so he wasn’t considered for selection. I remember there was a call from CoE checking on him in September, but we weren’t able to establish any contact with Yash Dayal. He has even changed his number. Even his childhood coach doesn’t know his whereabouts,” a UPCA official tells TimesofIndia.com. It stays to be seen whether or not or not he’ll characteristic for the RCB on this 12 months’s IPL.
