Adam Zampa IPL team 2020: RCB laud Australian spinner’s splendid performance on England tour

Dixit Bhargav | 16/09/2020
Adam Zampa IPL team 2020: RCB laud Australian spinner's splendid performance on England tour

RCB laud Australian spinner’s splendid performance: IPL 2020 will be Adam Zampa’s first season at Royal Challengers Bangalore.

During the third ODI of the ongoing Australia’s tour of England in Manchester, Australia spinner Adam Zampa emerged as the pick of their bowlers with bowling figures of 10-0-51-3.

Zampa, who was among the wickets in each of the three ODIs, has become the highest wicket-taker for Australia in a three-match series.

Having picked 10 wickets in three ODIs at an average of 14.20, an economy rate of 4.73 and a strike rate of 18, Zampa is currently the highest wicket-taker in the series having four more wickets than the next best bowler in England’s Chris Woakes.

RCB laud Australian spinner’s splendid performance on England tour

In the last two years, Zampa’s 43 wickets at an average and economy rate of 32.18 and 5.43 respectively make him the third-highest wicket-taker among spinners in ODIs – only behind India’s Kuldeep Yadav (56) and Yuzvendra Chahal (46).

Given how well the 28-year old spinner has performed across conditions of late, his signing with Indian Premier League franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore for the 13th season of the cash-rich league makes all the more sense.

Signed in as a replacement for Australia pacer Kane Richardson, Zampa’s current form has it in it to force RCB’s team management to play him alongside Chahal. With UAE’s pitches assisting spinners, expect Zampa to play a vital role for Bangalore in IPL 2020.

In what will be his second IPL franchise (after Rising Pune Supergiants), RCB took to their Twitter account to laud Zampa’s performance in the third ODI against England.

In 11 matches for Pune in the IPL, Zampa had picked 19 wickets at an average of 14.63, an economy rate of 7.55 and a strike rate of 11.63 including career-best bowling figures of 4-0-19-6 against SunRisers Hyderabad in Visakhapatnam.

Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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