The Punjab Kings all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has been ruled out of the remainder of the IPL 2025 after suffering a finger injury in his right hand.
The Punjab Kings have a major setback with injury concerns, with the loss of Lockie Ferguson and now Glenn Maxwell.
Shreyas Iyer has confirmed the all-rounder’s injury during the toss in the game against Chennai Super Kings on April 30 at Chennai. However, he also added that the franchise has named no replacement for the all-rounder.
“It’s very unfortunate that he’s got a fractured finger,” Shreyas Iyer, the PBKS captain, said at the toss ahead of their game against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Wednesday night.
“To be honest, we haven’t decided about the replacements yet, but we are pretty strong in our team’s mindset and what we have outside of our playing XI. We’ve got a variety of players who can win you matches. So we’re going to stick to that as much as possible.”
Marcus Stoinis also confirmed that Glenn Maxwell had gone for scans and the results were’nt great.
“He didn’t think it was too bad, but it ended up getting pretty bad,” Stoinis told before the match in Chennai. “He had scans and, yeah, the results weren’t great. So unfortunately for Maxi, I think it’s likely he’s out for the tournament.”
🚨 Glenn Maxwell has been ruled out of the remainder of the season due to a finger injury. We wish him a speedy recovery. pic.twitter.com/2pHCxuAOoK
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Glenn Maxwell had a poor run in the tournament s he had 48 runs in six innings after being bought for INR 4.2 crore at the last mega auction.
However Ricky Ponting said that he would be addressing about thre replacement soon. “We will be signing some replacements at some stage,” head coach Ricky Ponting said. “We’ve got until our 12th game [to name replacements], so we have a couple of games to go yet.”
“With the squad we’ve got, we’re trying to find players in our squad anyway, we’ve got most bases covered. So we’ve got Azmatullah [Omarzai], Aaron Hardie, who hasn’t played yet, Xavier Bartlett, who didn’t play today, it’s conditions based.”
“But when we get to Dharamsala, he will come back into the reckoning up there, where the ball might swing and bounce a little bit more.”
“So we’ve actually been a little bit patient. Maxi’s only been a couple of days, Lockie’s has been two or three weeks. And with the PSL happening at the same time, there’s not a lot of high-quality replacements out there, to be honest.”
“So we’ve just been patient. We’re having a look around at Indian talent as well and we’re looking at what roles we might be able to fill with some younger Indian players.”
“We’ll actually take a couple of guys to Dharamsala with us, a couple of guys trained with us yesterday and they will come with us to Dharamsala. We’ll have a closer look at them and they might find themselves with a Punjab contract going forward. It has to be this week, has to be before the 12th game, so stay tuned.”
Punjab Kings are currently placed in the second position of the IPL 2025 Points table with 13 points.
Punjab Kings will be play their next match against Lucknow Super Giants on May 04 at HPCA Stadium.
