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Sunrisers Hyderabad was deed by an wounded of Jack Edwards signed for Rs 3 crore successful IPL 2026 mini auction. Ahead of their opening lucifer against Royal Challengers Bengaluru connected March 28, SRH person named England pacer David Payne arsenic his replacement. Payne has been signed for Rs 1.5 crore.
Who is David Payne?
David Alan Payne is an English left-arm fast-medium bowler who made his debut for Gloucestershire successful 2009. He has represented England astatine U-19 level successful some Test matches and One Day Internationals. He was named arsenic portion of the squad for the 2010 U-19 Cricket World Cup. The 35-year-old Payne, who has played 1 ODI for England has the acquisition of 233 T20s, having taken 304 wickets. His lone planetary quality came successful 2022 against Netherlands, sharing the caller shot with David Willey and picking up 1 wicket.
He is Gloucestershire's starring wicket-taker successful T20 cricket and was the starring wicket-taker successful the 2024 T20 Blast, picking up 33 wickets successful 17 innings. He has besides featured for Welsh Fire successful the Hundred. Payne has featured successful the BBL, helium was named Player of the Match successful the BBL15 last (2025-26), taking 3-18 to assistance the Perth Scorchers unafraid their sixth rubric against the Sydney Sixers. Separately, helium has played 2 seasons of the ILT20 for Desert Vipers.
The IPL released an authoritative media connection announcing the replacements for KKR and SRH up of IPL 2026.''KKR, SRH prime subordinate replacements for TATA IPL 2026Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) person picked Saurabh Dubey and David Payne respectively arsenic subordinate replacements for TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026.Akash Deep – a right-arm pacer, who has played 10 Tests for India, scalping 28 wickets – has been ruled retired of the play owed to a lumbar accent injury. He volition beryllium nether the attraction of the BCCI Medical Team astatine the BCCI Centre of Excellence (COE) successful Bengaluru for further absorption of his injury.
Saurabh, a left-arm pacer, volition regenerate Akash astatine KKR. He volition articulation KKR for INR 30 Lakh. Meanwhile, Payne is an wounded replacement for Jack Edwards astatine SRH.
Payne has played 1 ODI for England, successful summation to 233 T20s, scalping 304 wickets from the same. He volition articulation SRH for INR 1.5 Crore.'' However, SRH are already acceptable to miss Pat Cummins astatine the commencement of the tournament, with Ishan Kishan named interim captain. While, Akash Deep is presently being monitored astatine the BCCI Centre of Excellence successful Bengaluru.
