The process of exclusion of players from IPL 2026 continues. Now Sunrisers Hyderabad has confirmed that fast bowler David Paine is out of IPL 2026 due to ankle injury. David Paine is an English player. Some time back, Sunrisers Hyderabad had suffered another big blow, when England’s Brayden Carse was also ruled out of IPL 2026 due to injury. The fast bowling department of SRH seems to be in serious trouble.

Sunrisers Hyderabad’s problems have increased a lot because they do not have experience in the fast bowling department. Jaydev Unadkat and Harshal Patel are proving to be very expensive. Meanwhile, Praful Hinge and Saqib Hussain have made a stellar debut, but when the team is surrounded by difficult circumstances, will Praful and Saqib save the team? Such questions have arisen before the SRH management.

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

David Payne has been ruled out of TATA IPL 2026 after sustaining an ankle injury.

Wishing him a speedy recovery pic.twitter.com/aKjJ9lvl6R

— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) April 16, 2026

It is not that the Sunrisers Hyderabad team is falling into a deep pit. Meanwhile, a good news has also come that Pat Cummins is on the path of recovery from injury. Cummins had returned to Australia for tests, but is going to join the SRH team again on 17 April. Till now, Ishan Kishan is captaining the Sunrisers Hyderabad team in place of Cummins.

Pat Cummins recently revealed through social media that currently his aim is to take the field against Rajasthan Royals on 25th April. This will be the overall eighth match of the SRH team in the IPL 2026 tournament. If we look at the points table, Hyderabad has 4 points after 2 wins in five matches. He is currently at fourth position in the table.

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Sunrisers Hyderabad has suffered a big blow, because the team’s fast bowler Brydon Carse is out of IPL 2026 (Brydon Carse Ruled Out). Fast bowler Brayden Carse, who comes from England, had not played a single match in IPL 2026 till now, but due to injury he had to be out of the entire tournament. SRH team has announced Sri Lankan Dilshan Madushanka as his replacement.

Sunrisers Hyderabad’s fast bowling department is already struggling in the absence of Pat Cummins. However, in the match against Rajasthan Royals, Prafulla Hinge and Saqib Hussain performed miraculously and took 8 wickets together. But the team is definitely lacking experience in the fast bowling department.

Dilshan Madushanka will get Rs 75 lakh on joining SRH team. Let us remind you that Brayden Kars was retained by Sunrisers Hyderabad, but before the first match of the tournament against Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kars got injured in his right hand while bowling in the nets.

Talking about 25 year old Madushanka, he has debuted for Sri Lanka in all three formats. Till now he has played one Test, 28 ODI and 19 T20 matches for Sri Lanka.

The team’s regular captain Pat Cummins is recovering from injury. On the other hand, Jaydev Unadkat and Harshal Patel have not been very effective. Meanwhile, the exclusion of Brayden Kars is a big blow for the Hyderabad team. Praful Hinge and Saqib Hussain have recently made their debut and nothing can be said about how effective they will be on these occasions. Even if both of them took 8 wickets together against Rajasthan Royals.

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Chennai Super Kings has defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 32 runs. The CSK team seemed to have returned to its champion form, especially the bowlers wreaked havoc and forced the KKR batting line-up to their knees. In this match played at Chepauk ground, Chennai team batted first and scored 192 runs. In reply, Kolkata team could score only 160 runs in the stipulated 20 overs.

KKR hit a four of defeat

The IPL 2026 season is going very bad for Kolkata Knight Riders. With this defeat against Chennai, KKR has made four defeats. At the same time, Chennai Super Kings have registered their second consecutive win on their home ground. KKR has only one point, which it got when the match with Punjab Kings was cancelled.

CSK came to bat first, for which Sanju Samson scored 48 runs, while Ayush Mhatre played a quick inning of 38 runs in 17 balls. Dewald Brevis also contributed 41 runs, taking the team’s score to 192. However, CSK was seen struggling badly in the death overs.

Bowlers wreaked havoc

The bowlers of Chennai Super Kings never allowed KKR to enter the match. Sunil Narine and Finn Allen came to open. Allen could score only one run, while Narine was out after scoring 24 runs. By the score of 29, Kolkata had lost 2 wickets. Ajinkya Rahane and Angkrish Raghuvanshi managed the innings with a partnership of 50 runs.

Raghuvanshi was out in the 10th over, after which the fall of wickets started. Meanwhile, Kolkata lost four wickets within 11 runs. Rovman Powell and Ramandeep Singh remained at the crease for a long time and made a partnership of 63 runs, but they were not able to make the connection between the ball and the bat. In the end Kolkata remained 32 runs away from victory. Noor Ahmed took maximum 3 wickets for Chennai. Anshul Kamboj dismissed 2 batsmen. Khalil Ahmed and Akil Hussain took one wicket each and most of the bowlers bowled at a good economy rate.

Kevin Pietersen IPL Career: Former captain of England cricket team Kevin Pietersen has made a big revelation. Pietersen claimed that IPL ended his career. In fact, the veteran cricketer threw light on those days when his relations with the ECB started getting affected due to playing in the Indian Premier League. Pietersen also claimed that it is because of his sacrifices that today England players are able to play in the IPL without any restrictions.

IPL ended my career

Speaking to podcaster Ranveer Allahabadia, Kevin Pietersen talked about the days when the ECB was reluctant to send players in the central contract list to the IPL. He told how the decline of his international cricket career started due to playing in IPL.

Kevin Pietersen said, “I made many big sacrifices, my career was over. That’s why everyone on the board turned against me.” He gave this statement on a question in which he was asked what his reaction was to the England players playing in the IPL today.

Due to playing in IPL while being a part of England team, his relations with ECB officials started deteriorating. The issue of Pietersen and ECB had created a stir in the entire cricket world. Pietersen scored 8,181 runs in his 104-match Test career. But Pietersen believes that due to IPL, his career went in another direction and his career should have ended with 12-13 thousand test runs.

Pietersen says that it is the result of his tough decision to play in the Indian Premier League that today England cricketers are able to play in the IPL without any restrictions.

Kevin Pietersen’s IPL career

Kevin Pietersen played for Royal Challengers Bangalore, Delhi Daredevils and Rising Pune Super Giants in his IPL career. He scored 1,001 runs in his 36-match IPL career. He also scored a century and 4 fifties.

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