IPL 2022: Adam Zampa IPL SNUB – Despite being the best spinner in the T20 World Cup, Australian spinner Adam Zampa didn’t find a buyer at the IPL 2022 Auction. Zampa along with Kane Richardson and Andrew Tye pulled out of IPL 2021 midway through the season amid the raging Covid-19 2nd wave in India. All three didn’t find any suitors this time around. Zampa said he is gutted while he still eyes a return in IPL 2023. Follow IPL 2022 Live Updates on InsideSport.IN.
“I missed out at the IPL auction, unfortunately. I’m a little bit flat about that to be honest. I thought if there was ever a year that I was going to get the opportunity over there again, it would have been this year. Just with the way that I’m bowling and, from a personal point of view, I just feel like my game at a point where I just want to be playing the best cricket possible,” Adam Zampa told the Unplayable Podcast.
IPL 2022: Australia’s T20 World Cup star Adam Zampa gutted with IPL SNUB, says ‘I would’ve been valuable addition’
Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson both were playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) last season decided to leave IPL midway amid doubts regarding whether Australia will allow any travellers or not.
IPL 2022: Australia’s T20 World Cup star Adam Zampa gutted with IPL SNUB, says ‘I would’ve been valuable addition’
“International cricket is that and then the next thing after that is the IPL. It’s very hard as an overseas spinner, particularly if you’re just a specialist spinner who’s not so much of a mystery spinner. The mega auction, the way it panned out, they spent a lot of money on fast bowlers, a lot of money on allrounders and even batsmen don’t get great money. They get okay money,” Adam Zampa said.
Adam Zampa was keeping note of all the experts who wrote Australia off before the #T20WorldCup, and it made those celebrations all the more sweet! | @alintaenergy pic.twitter.com/2k6FVdi5Xz
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) February 17, 2022
“And then once all that money gets spent, they go, ‘Okay, we need some spinners now,’ and usually they feel like the local guys can do an okay job anyway. I think there’ll be opportunities maybe next year with the IPL though … I think I’d be a valuable addition to any of those squads particularly with the way that I’m bowling at the moment,” he added.
IPL 2022: Australia’s T20 World Cup star Adam Zampa gutted with IPL SNUB, says ‘I would’ve been valuable addition’
Zampa has had a memorable 12 months and he also went on to take 13 wickets in Australia’s T20 World Cup-winning campaign.
IPL 2022: The spinner is currently a part of the Australian squad that is locking horns against Sri Lanka in the ongoing five-match T20I series. A total of 13 Australian cricketers will be part of IPL 2022. The number is down from 17 in IPL 2021.
IPL 2022: Australia’s T20 World Cup star Adam Zampa gutted with IPL SNUB, says ‘I would’ve been valuable addition’
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