Harry Brook pulled out of the 10-team tournament earlier this week due to personal reasons and the 2020 runners-up have been forced into another late change to their roster
Lungi Ngidi will miss the entire Indian Premier League season as he continues to nurse a back problem - with Delhi Capitals adding Australian breakout star Jake Fraser-McGurk as a replacement.
South Africa quick Ngidi has been suffering since the SA20, his last appearance coming on February 2, and missed Paarl Rocks' last two games including the Eliminator defeat.
He is the second withdrawal in a number of days with Harry Brook having pulled out due to personal reasons, after having missed England's Test tour of India.
Capitals, runners-up in 2020, did not announce a replacement but have now added the big-hitting Fraser-McGurk to their squad. They begin their IPL campaign on day two of the seventh edition of the competition against Punjab Kings on March 23.
It has been an astonishing home summer for Fraser-McGurk (Mark Brake/Getty Images)
The 2023/24 Australian domestic season has represented the 21-year-old's arrival on the big stage. He struck a 29-ball century in the Marsh Cup, the fastest in List A cricket, recorded a maiden first-class hundred and then hit 257 runs at a strike rate of 158.64 in the Big Bash League for Melbourne Renegades.
That hot streak of form saw him make his Australia debut in the West Indies one-day international series and earn a call-up for the T20I in Perth, though he was not required.
Fraser-McGurk played for another side in the GMR Group stable, Dubai Capitals, during the ILT20 and struck 109 runs with the tournament's second-highest strike rate of 213.72.
That return included a 21-ball fifty against MI Emirates in Dubai, the second-fastest of the tournament.
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