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Kedar Jadhav moves to RCB, Yuvraj released in IPL trading window

by Sandeep Shivam Friday 1 January 2016

Yuvraj Singh had a poor season for Delhi Daredevils in IPL 2015 having scored 248 runs from 14 matches.

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Royal Challengers Bangalore have acquired Kedar Jadhav from the Delhi Daredevils in the first trading window of the 2016 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

In 2015, Jadhav has scored 344 runs at an average of 57.33 from six matches in the Vijay Hazare Trophy for Maharashtra including two centuries.

In his IPL career Jadhav has 584 runs from 47 matches at an average of 22.46 with two fifties across five editions of the tournament.

Jadhav made his international debut in the year 2014 and has so far played four One-Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals for India.

In his last ODI for India in July 2015 against Zimbabwe in Harare, Jadhav scored an unbeaten hundred and also picked up the man of the match award in India’s 83-run victory in the game.

Apart from Jadhav, Delhi Daredevils have released Yuvraj Singh and Angelo Mathews from their squad while Royal Challengers Bangalore have released Dinesh Karthik.

Also, Kevin Pietersen, Dale Steyn and Ishant Sharma have been released by the Sunrisers Hyderabad franchise as the IPL trading window ended on Thursday.