Published: May 01, 2025, 11:00 AM (IST)
Edited: May 01, 2025, 11:00 AM (IST)
Punjab Kings (PBKS) all-rounder Glenn Maxwell is “likely” out of the Indian Premier League’s remaining matches after fracturing his finger. Maxwell suffered the injury before PBKS’ rained out previous game against Kolkata Knight Riders in which he was dismissed for 7.
He was replaced by Suryansh Shedge in PBKS’ clash against the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Wednesday where the Punjab-based franchise came out on top, defeating the opposition by 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,” PBKS all-rounder Marcus Stoinis told JioStar.
PBKS head coach Ricky Ponting stated that the side is trying to find a suitable replacement for Maxwell, which may not be easy to figure out.
“We will be signing some replacements at some stage. 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,” Ponting said at the post-match press conference.
“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,” Ponting added.
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.
“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,” Ponting said.
“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,” Ponting added.
