Chennai Super Kings confirmed on Sunday that Ramakrishna Ghosh will play no further part in IPL 2026 after fracturing his right foot against Mumbai Indians in Chennai.
“He sustained the injury during the match against Mumbai Indians,” the franchise said, adding that its medical team would decide on the next steps.
The timing is cruel. Ghosh finally made his IPL debut on Saturday, more than a year after CSK picked him up at the 2025 mega-auction for his base price of ₹30 lakh. Eight balls into the contest he hurled himself full-length at backward point, dragging down Will Jacks with a catch most fielders would probably have left alone. A little later, operating at a tidy 133 kph, he banged in a short ball that Suryakumar Yadav feathered to deep point. Two major contributions in the space of a few overs, and then a season abruptly over.
Ghosh is the fourth CSK player – and the third quick – to be ruled out this year, following Nathan Ellis, Ayush Mhatre and Khaleel Ahmed. Replacements are still being discussed; the club has not yet applied to the league for a like-for-like signing.
At the halfway point CSK sit sixth, with four wins from nine. The bowling group has been reshuffled almost weekly, and Stephen Fleming will have to reshuffle again before the side travel to Delhi Capitals on 5 May.
For Ghosh, rehabilitation starts immediately. A medium-pacer from Maharashtra who adds depth with the bat, he had waited 14 months for a first cap only to be sidelined within 24 hours. It is, as one CSK coach put it off the record, “a bit of a kick in the teeth, but he’ll be back.”
No one inside the dressing-room doubts that.
