IPL 2025: RR replaced Sandeep Sharma, South African fast bowler joins team, big news

Many of the best matches have been played in IPL 2025 so far. This tournament is now in its final stages. The IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals have performed quite poor in the 2025 season. This season team failed to leave the impression from the performance, and was completely out of the playoff race.

Rajasthan Royals have played 12 matches in IPL 2025 so far, out of which the team has won 3, while they have lost 9 matches. Rajasthan Royals have 6 points and are ranked 9th in the IPL 2025 points table. The team still has two more matches in this season.

However, the bad news for Rajasthan Royals is that the team’s best fast bowler Sandeep Sharma has been ruled out of this tournament due to injury. Sandeep has been one of the important players of Rajasthan Royals. He was retained by the franchise in the IPL 2025 mega auction in his team for Rs 4 crore as an unaccounted player.

But now RR Management has announced Sandeep Sharma’s replacement. South Africa’s finest fast bowler Nandre Burger can now be seen playing in the remaining IPL 2025 match in the Rajasthan Royals team in place of Sandeep Sharma.

Sandeep Sharma took 9 wickets at an average of 40 in IPL 2025. This season was quite disappointing for him. Nandre Burger has also been a part of the Rajasthan team in the last season. He took 7 wickets at an average of 20.71 in 6 innings in the previous season. But the bowler was left unusual in the mega auction of IPL 2025.

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Nandre Burger’s T20 figures have been excellent. He has taken 77 wickets in 69 matches at an average of 23.44. Now in the remaining match of IPL 2025, he can be seen bowling amazing.

Talking about the RR team, they now have to play their next match against Chennai Super Kings on May 12. Chennai Super Kings have also been completely out of the playoff race.