The Gujarat Titans have confirmed South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada is available for Tuesday’s Indian Premier League fixture against the Mumbai Indians.
Rabada left the Titans’ 2025 IPL campaign in late March and later revealed a suspension for using a banned substance. Rabada served the one-month ban in South Africa and since returned to India.
“Speaking about Kagiso, I’d like to just get a couple of things across. The first of which would be that Kagiso has expressed regret at an error in judgement,” said Gujarat Titans director of cricket Vikram Solanki.
“He’s made a telling statement. I read his statement, and I thought that his statement speaks volumes about the personality of the character that he is. He has expressed regret, as I said. But he is very much looking forward to getting back to playing the game he loves.
“He will take his, sort of, lessons from this and we’re just looking forward to having him back part of our group, having him back at practice. He served his time.
“The second thing I’d like to place on record is that as far as procedure and protocol is concerned, everybody that’s involved in this episode, right from Kagiso, his representative, all matters, as far as requirements go, have been followed to the letter.”
The Titans remain in pursuit of a second IPL title. They won their first in 2022. Gujarat currently occupy fourth position on the 10-team points table after seven wins and three losses.
“We try to be mindful of the emotion around Kagiso as well. But having said all of that, he’s now back, having served the time to serve the suspension for 30 days,” added Solanki.
“And what we’re looking for now is for him to just be back doing what he loves, and for him to be doing stuff that we appreciate him doing. And that’s to be part of the team. One of the things he’s made very clear is that he doesn’t want this episode to distract anybody. But as far as the team’s concerned, he spoke very eloquently about the fact that this is something he’s dealing with.
“As far as the team is concerned, the team will of course support it. It’s our job to support the players we have, whether it be on the matter of form or it be on the matter of personal matters like this. We will be supportive of Kagiso.”