As the international calendar has begun, What it means is that the foreign players from New Zealand, South Africa and England would not be available in IPL before playoffs and this could be a huge to trouble for some of the IPL teams.
England and South Africa are going to play a 3-match series towards May end. The English and South African players will be leaving to take part in the same. While, New Zealand cricket board has asked all its players to come back. It could be for the reason that the board wants the players to be fresh before heading to England to take part in Champions Trophy.
Complete list of foreign players missing out before playoffs :
Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, AB de Villiers, Faf du Plessis, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Trent Boult, Chris Woakes, Colin de Grandhomme, Tim Southee, Corey Anderson, Hashim Amla, David Miller, Imran Tahir, Kane Williamson.
