Why Is Josh Hazlewood Not Playing Today's RCB-LSG Match In IPL 2025?

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Last Updated:May 27, 2025, 20:00 IST

Josh Hazlewood missed RCB's playing 11 against LSG contempt returning to India. Stand-in skipper Jitesh Sharma said Hazlewood volition beryllium acceptable for the playoffs.

Josh Hazlewood is not portion of RCB's 11 against LSG (Picture Credit: Sportzpics)

Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood has missed retired connected Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)’s playing 11 for the IPL 2025 lucifer against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) connected Tuesday, contempt returning to India aft the mid-season break. RCB’s stand-in skipper Jitesh Sharma said astatine the flip that Hazlewood volition beryllium ‘fit’ for the playoffs, suggesting that helium had inactive not recovered to match-fitness from his enarthrosis niggle.

“We volition tract first," Jitesh said astatine the toss. “Looks similar a bully wicket, we’ll fancy to chase. Rajat Patidar is our interaction player. Looking to triumph and marque it into the top-2. Tim David misses out, Liam comes in, truthful does Thushara, helium replaces Ngidi who near the team. Everyone volition get a astonishment successful the adjacent lucifer arsenic Tim David and Josh Hazlewood volition beryllium back," helium added.

Hazlewood suffered the insignificant contented during the season. When it was halted owed to information issues, the Aussie was 1 of the players to spell backmost location and immoderate reports said that helium mightiness not rejoin the team.

Although RCB volition miss him against LSG erstwhile they request to triumph to hole their spot successful the apical two, they’ll beryllium gladsome he’ll beryllium backmost for the playoffs.

Meanwhile, LSG besides made a mates of tweaks.

“We don’t caput batting oregon bowling first, we did amusement a glimpse of the imaginable successful our past game, but each lucifer is simply a learning curve, till the past shot is bowled, we volition springiness our 100 percent. Few changes – Breetzke is successful and Digvesh Rathi is backmost in," skipper Rishabh Pant said astatine the toss.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Playing 11): Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Mayank Agarawal, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (WK/C), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Nuwan Thushara and Suyash Sharma

Impact Players: Rajat Patidar, Rasikh Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Tim Seifert, Swapnil Singh.

Lucknow Super Giants (Playing 11): Mitchell Marsh, Matthew Breetzke, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Himmat Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Avesh Khan and William O’Rourke

Impact Players: Akash Maharaj Singh, Prince Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshin Kulkarni, Yuvraj Chaudhary

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