Australian leg-spinner and Royal Challengers Bangalore player Adam Zampa will be missing the opening match of RCB in the 14th edition of Indian Premier League as he is getting married. RCB's Director of Cricket Mike Hesson confirmed the same in a video posted on RCB's official Twitter page.

RCB will be going against defending champions Mumbai Indians in the series opener and the 20-year-old Australian bowler will be missing the game. "Adam Zampa is getting married. We won't have our full contingent of overseas players available for the first game. It's an important time for him and it's something that as a franchise we are aware of and we respect and we hope he has a great time. So when he joins us, once again he is going to be fresh and make a massive contribution to the rest of the tournament. We have got eight good overseas options, we are making sure that we are firing and functioning for the entire tournament not just trying to push guys for the first game" Mike Hesson mentioned on Bold Diaries. The director also said that AB de Villiers will arrive on March 28 to join RCB in its training camp, set to begin on March 29.

Speaking about Australian players and coach Simon Katich coming to India, Hesson added, "Getting people out of Australia has been a challenge. Simon has been ready to go for a long time, it will be probably two days before he is able to jump on a plane and join us. The documentation has been a bit challenging. It is very different than the last year where we had everybody together for a long period of time on the back of a period where the guys had not trained or played. So, this time it is different, we got players playing international cricket over here and overseas and domestic cricket up until a hand full of days ago. So, we had to prepare in slightly different ways."