Australian spinner Adam Zampa has spoken about the reason as to why he decided to withdraw from the Indian Premier League 2024. On the eve of tournament, Adam Zampa pulled out of the tournament due to personal reasons. Zampa was scheduled to join Rajasthan Royals for the second consecutive year after being acquired by the franchise. Zampa has said he decided to skip the IPL because of being ‘completely drained’ following an incredibly busy schedule with Australia. 

"There are several reasons why the IPL wasn't for me this year. I think the most important one was the fact that it's a World Cup year and I'm completely drained from 2023,” Zampa told the Willow Talk Podcast. 

"I did the full IPL last year. Obviously, the World Cup was three months in India as well. So I had the best intentions of trying to play the IPL again this year. But once push came to shove, I felt like I just couldn't really offer the Rajasthan Royals the best version of myself and looking forward to the World Cup, that's what's more important to me. That’s for sure.”

During the last season, Zampa was available for Rajasthan Royals, however he could only play six games as he remained on the sidelines following the inclusion of Indian spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal. As of now, Zampa’s whole focus remains the upcoming T20I World Cup that will be played in West Indies and USA in June. 

"It came down to my decision being I probably need to put my body and my mental health first. Then you throw a lot of other things into the equation as well, like the fact that I've got a young family. It's not easy to spend nine weeks in India in my situation where I'm fighting for my spot in the team as well."

"It's not like I can say to myself, 'Well, that's alright I've got 14 games to prepare for a World Cup’. I don't know whether that's actually going to be two games or four games or six games. So I worked out that maybe putting my family first, putting my body first was better for me.”

"It's not an easy decision because you've always got that voice in the back of your mind going, 'pulling out of the IPL, what are people going to say? What happens the next time you want to go to the IPL? Do people kind of paint you with that brush?'. But I wasn't too fussed about it once I made that decision, I knew it was the right one."