Rajasthan Royals (RR) confirmed that their Australia pacer Andrew Tye flew back to Australia today morning due to personal reasons. With this, Rajasthan are now left with only four overseas players.
Tye is the fourth overseas player for the franchise to pull out of the IPL. Earlier, Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer pulled out of the IPL due to injuries while Liam Livingstone flew back home due to bubble fatigue.
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"AJ is leaving in the morning at 4 am (Sunday), all of you boys who wanna say bye to him and thank you. He has been part of the squad and he has offered us a lot of himself and his thoughts. Relax, enjoy and we get back to stuff that we do well training and focusing," Director of Cricket Kumar Sangakkara said in a video posted by Rajasthan on their official Twitter handle.
"We had a game against RCB here. We talked about remembering good things and learning also from the bad things. Same thing with this game, it was a great overall performance but I know all of you know that we can do things a little better every single time. Remember this feeling and remember this energy," he added.
Rajasthan will now take on Mumbai Indians in Delhi on April 29.
(ANI/PTI inputs)