Glenn Maxwell’s IPL 2025 ends after suffering from a finger injury, completing another disastrous tournament for him.
Glenn Maxwell’s IPL is over after suffering a finger injury in his right hand.
“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 Maxwell had gone for scans and the results “weren’t great”. “He didn’t think it was too bad, but it ended up getting pretty bad,” Stoinis told the broadcaster 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.”
Maxwell took four wickets with his offspin despite having a bad tournament run as a batsman. In six innings, he scored 48 runs, including single-digit totals in his previous four outings. At the most recent mega auction, he was purchased for INR 4.2 crore.
After fast bowler Lockie Ferguson suffered a “serious injury” earlier this month and was forced to miss the event, this is PBKS’ second injury-related setback. Ponting stated that a replacement for Ferguson would be announced shortly, although PBKS has not yet done so.
“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.”