Australia's pace ace Josh Hazlewood has declared fit to play the entire season of IPL 2025 for Royal Challengers Bengaluru.

Josh Hazlewood was the most expensive Australian player in the IPL 2025 mega auction as RCB bought up for a whopping price of INR 12.50 crore. However, Hazlewood sustained a side strain during the high-octane Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which kept him out of the Boxing Day Test and the fifth and final Test at the SCG.

The strain later turned into a hip injury, which led him to miss the entire Sri Lanka tour and the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. And now today he got the green light to play the IPL 2025 as a fit player.

Australia missed their ace pacers service at the ICC Champions Trophy as Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc all were out of the ICC event due to their respective injuries. However, they all are now fit to go into the IPL 2025.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru squad for IPL 2025:

Rajat Patidar (Captain), Virat Kohli, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Liam Livingstone, Rasikh Dar, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethel, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastik Chhikara, Lungi Ngidi, Abhinandan Singh, Mohit Rathee, Josh Hazlewood.

RCB begin their IPL 2025 journey playing against the defending champions in the tournament opener on March 22.