{"id":14546,"date":"2025-05-16T11:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ipl-2025-mitchell-starc-will-not-return-to-india-before-australias-test-final\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T11:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:10:50","slug":"ipl-2025-mitchell-starc-will-not-return-to-india-before-australias-test-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ipl-2025-mitchell-starc-will-not-return-to-india-before-australias-test-final\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2025: Mitchell Starc will not return to India before Australia&#8217;s Test final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Australia bowler Mitchell Starc will not return to the Indian Premier League when it resumes on Saturday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Starc, 35, has played in all 11 matches for Delhi Capitals, who remain in contention for the play-offs, but will not travel back to India, with Australia&#8217;s World Test Championship final to follow next month against South Africa at Lord&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow quick Josh Hazlewood is nursing a shoulder issue in Australia and a decision is yet to be made whether he will return to play for Royal Challengers Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">RCB are currently second in the standings with three games to play while Delhi sit a place outside of the play-offs in fifth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia&#8217;s players are set to meet in the UK on 4 June to prepare for the defence of their world Test title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IPL play-offs begin on 29 May with the final on 3 June, meaning Hazlewood could play a full part in the IPL&#8217;s latter stages if passed fit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Pat Cummins and batter Travis Head, also in Australia&#8217;s Test squad, will return to India to compete the IPL season at Sunrisers Hyderabad before travelling to England. Sunrisers are already out of contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cricket South Africa (CSA) have not confirmed whether their Test players will remain available for the remainder of the IPL, although coach Shukri Conrad said the Proteas were &#8220;not budging&#8221; on wanting their players to return on 26 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eight of South Africa&#8217;s Test squad are in the IPL &#8211; Kagiso Rabada, Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Tristan Stubbs, Lungi Ngidi, Wiaan Mulder, Ryan Rickelton and Corbin Bosch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa are scheduled to play a warm-up match against Zimbabwe at Arundel from 3 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Test Championship final begins at Lord&#8217;s on 11 June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c2497m4nj35o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia bowler Mitchell Starc will not return to the Indian Premier League when it resumes on Saturday. Starc, 35, has played in all 11 matches for Delhi Capitals, who remain in contention for the play-offs, but will not travel back to India, with Australia&#8217;s World Test Championship final to follow next month against South Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14548,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546\/revisions\/14548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}