ace fast bowler sky lamp Recently the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) was ruled out from 2026. The Bengal fast bowler was undergoing rehabilitation for an unspecified injury at the BCCI Center of Excellence in Bengaluru.
He was set to represent Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) after being picked by the franchise at the best price of Rs 1.00 crore in the mini auction. However, in an unfortunate turn of events, the speedster will have to watch the impending edition of the cash-rich league from the sidelines.
KKR's key homegrown fast bowler Harshit Rana got injured during the practice match between India and South Africa ahead of the T20 World Cup. He has been ruled out of the entire IPL tournament. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka's talented player Mathisha Pathirana is likely to miss the first few matches of the 20-team competition due to fitness issues.
The KKR chief called up several famous fast bowlers during his training camp in Kolkata. Akash Madhwal, Simarjeet Singh and Navdeep Saini were some of the bowlers who were sweating it out in the hope of securing an IPL contract. However, this has been confirmed on Sunday 22 March -Saurabh Dubey Has joined KKR as a replacement for Akash. Dubey, a left-arm fast bowler from Vidarbha, was previously a part of the Sunrisers Hyderabad team but is yet to make his IPL debut.
“He is a very talented left-arm fast bowler. I remember he toured Bangladesh under Rahul Dravid as part of the 2019 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup squad. He gets extra bounce off the wicket and can swing the ball both ways. It's a good decision by the Knight Riders management,” Subroto Banerjee was quoted as saying by Cricbuzz.
KKR begins its campaign in IPL 2026 with a match against Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium on March 29.
KKR's updated team for IPL 2026
Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ajinkya RahaneManish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Varun Chakraborty, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Umran Malik, Cameron Green, Finn Allen, Mathisha Pathirana, Tejasvi Singh, Karthik Tyagi, Prashant Solanki, Daksh Kamra, Sarthak Ranjan, Blessing Muzarabani, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, Rachin Ravindra and Saurabh Dubey.
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