Josh Inglis

Wicketkeeper-batter Josh Inglis, who was born in Leeds before relocating to Australia as a 14-year-old, moved into the national reckoning after finding his feet for both Western Australia and Perth Scorchers. A versatile and hard-hitting batter, he enjoyed a breakthrough Sheffield Shield season in 2020-21 with 585 runs including his first three first-class hundreds having previously churned out runs at grade level without quite making the step up. That followed consecutive 400-plus run seasons for Scorchers in the BBL - where his adaptability at moving from the top order to the middle was noted by selectors - and having continued to flay runs in county cricket for Leicestershire he was named in Australia's 2021 T20 World Cup despite not being part of any of the previous series.

He would need to wait for the following year to make his international debut in both white-ball formats when he featured against Sri Lanka, and a number of his early matches came as a batter, but his big moment would come in late 2023 when he became Australia's first-choice ODI gloveman one match into the World Cup when the selectors dropped Alex Carey.

After the World Cup, in a much-forgotten T20 series against India, Inglis flayed a remarkable 110 off 50 balls in Visakhapatnam albeit the innings came in a defeat. With the selectors sticking with Matthew Wade for the 2024 T20 World Cup, Inglis continued to have to bide his time but the stage was then set for him to be the No. 1 across both limited-overs sides while remaining Carey's test understudy.

Josh Inglis - IPL factfile

- Josh Inglis got his first IPL deal ahead of the 2025 season, with Punjab Kings (PBKS) securing him for INR 2.6 crore.

- Inglis has significant T20 experience, having played in leagues like the BBL, the Hundred, and Major League Cricket. He's also been a regular in the Australian T20I set-up since 2022.

- One of his two T20I centuries came in India in 2023 against a group of bowlers with a lot of IPL experience, including new team-mate Arshdeep Singh.