Mayank Agarwal to replace Padikkal in RCB, DC sign Sediqullah Atal for Brook
New Delhi, May 7 (PTI): Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Wednesday picked Mayank Agarwal as a replacement for injured Devdutt Padikkal, while Delhi Capitals signed Afghanistan's Sediqullah Atal in place of Englishman Harry Brook for the remainder of the Indian Premier League.
Padikkal, who played 10 matches for RCB this season and scored 247 runs with the help of two half-centuries, sustained an injury to his right hamstring.
Agarwal has played 127 IPL matches so far, scoring 2661 runs. He has one IPL hundred and 13 fifties against his name. He joins RCB for Rs 1 Crore.
DC, on the other hand, have signed up 23-year-old Afghan batter Atal, who made headlines with his heroic 85-run knock against Australia in the ICC Champions Trophy earlier this year.
Atal has played 49 T20s across various competitions, scoring 1,507 runs at an average of 34.25, including 13 half-centuries.
He first rose to prominence during the Kabul Premier League 2023, where he smashed 48 runs in a single over. In that innings, he remained unbeaten on 118 off 56 balls, which included seven fours and ten sixes. He also scored a century in the tournament final, making 103 off just 42 deliveries.
Atal played a pivotal role in Afghanistan’s title win at the ACC Men’s T20 Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2024, topping the run-scorers’ chart with 368 runs in five matches.
He replaces Brook, who has been banned by the BCCI for pulling out of the IPL despite being bought at the auction.
"We are excited to welcome Atal to the Delhi Capitals. He is an exciting, young talent who has impressed everyone with his performances for both the Afghanistan youth and senior teams," DC head coach Hemang Badani said.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฑ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐จ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ, ๐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ค ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ โจ
— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) May 7, 2025
This campaign won’t be the same without you, Dev. Heal up fast, we’ll keep the fight on, and wait for your comeback next year,… pic.twitter.com/Z4KJ1LkxfG
เฒจเฒฎเณเฒฎ เฒฎเฒจเณ เฒฎเฒ เฒฎเฒฏเฒพเฒเฒเณ! ๐ฅน
— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) May 7, 2025
After 1๏ธโฃ2๏ธโฃ long years, ๐ก๐’๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ค where he belongs. Happy #HomeComing, Mayank. ๐ก
12th Man Army will be on top of the moon hearing this, and they’ll all be right behind you. ๐ซถ pic.twitter.com/k5RwAGINrG
An Afghan Tiger joins the ranks, welcoming Sediqullah Atal ๐โค๏ธ
— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) May 7, 2025
He replaces Harry Brook in the squad. pic.twitter.com/MBrVn4MdVZ
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Man sets fire to gas cylinder on truck in Kerala's Kottayam, held
Kottayam(Kerala) (PTI): A 33-year-old man climbed onto a parked truck carrying cooking gas cylinders and set fire to one of them near Thalayolaparambu in the small hours of Saturday, police said.
The incident occurred around 12.30 am, they said.
The fire and rescue personnel soon arrived at the scene and extinguished the fire, averting a major disaster.
According to police, the man is suspected to be under mental distress as he claimed that he was walking from Ernakulam to his home in Marangattupilly here when he saw the truck on the roadside.
An FIR under sections 329(3)(criminal trespass),324(2)(mischief),326(f)(mischief by injury, inundation, fire or explosive substance) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was lodged against him.
Police said that the man was formally arrested, but will be released on station bail as the offences he is accused of are bailable.
"His family is here at the station and he will be released to them," the officer said.
In the FIR, police have said that the man opened the seal of one of the gas cylinders and set fire to it with the knowledge that his act was dangerous to those living in the area.
According to the company transporting the cooking gas cylinders, it suffered a loss of Rs 2,300 in the incident.
