Punjab Kings’ Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell was on Thursday (May 1, 2025) ruled out of the Indian Premier League’s remaining matches after fracturing his finger, the franchise introduced.
Maxwell suffered the harm earlier than PBKS’ rained out sport towards Kolkata Knight Riders during which he was dismissed for 7, persevering with an underwhelming season.
“Glenn Maxwell has been ruled out of the remainder of the season due to a finger injury. We wish him a speedy recovery,” Kings posted on their social media deal with.
Maxwell was changed by Suryansh Shedge in Wednesday evening’s conflict towards Chennai Super Kings that PBKS gained by 4 wickets.
The veteran Australian all-rounder had a forgettable run on this 12 months’s IPL, managing a mere 48 runs in seven matches averaging a lowly eight whereas taking 4 wickets.
“Unfortunately, Maxi’s broken his finger. He broke it just before the last game at training. He didn’t think it was too bad, but it ended up getting pretty bad. 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,” Maxwell’s compatriot and PBKS teammate Marcus Stoinis had informed ‘Jiostar’ forward of the CSK sport.
Punjab head coach Ricky Ponting mentioned the facet is at present making an attempt to determine an appropriate alternative for Maxwell which is probably not straightforward to discover.
“We will be signing some replacements at some stage,” Ponting mentioned within the post-match press convention when requested concerning the harm setback.
“We’ve got until our 12th game, 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. So we’ve got Azmatullah (Omarzai), Aaron Hardie who hasn’t played yet, Xavier Bartlett who didn’t play today.
“It’s circumstances primarily based. But after we get to Dharamsala he’ll come again into the reckoning up there, the place the ball may swing and bounce a bit of bit extra,” he explained.
Ponting said the side is having a good look at the Indian talent that it has as international options are limited due to other ongoing leagues.
“…there’s not rather a lot of prime quality replacements on the market to be sincere. So we have simply been affected person,” he said.
“We’re taking a look round at Indian expertise as nicely and we’re what roles we would have the option to fill with some youthful Indian gamers. We’ll really take a pair of guys to Dharamsala with us, a pair of guys skilled with us yesterday and they’re going to include us to Dharamsala.
“…we’ll have a closer look at them and they might find themselves with a Punjab contract going forward (smiles). It has to be this week, has to be before the 12th game so stay tuned,” he added.
Published – May 01, 2025 03:12 pm IST
