David Payne IPL 2026: Sunrisers Hyderabad has included a new player in its team for IPL 2026. Sunrisers all-rounder Jack Edwards was out of the tournament, in his place Sunrisers Hyderabad has given a chance to England's left arm pacer David Paine in its team. This left arm fast bowler has played only one match for England. But this player has amazing experience in T20 matches. This is the reason why despite being 35 years old, Sunrisers Hyderabad has given this player a chance.
David Paine has got a chance in IPL for the first time but this player has played a lot of matches in Big Bash League, ILT20, Men's 100 and T20 Blast. Penn has taken 328 wickets in 115 matches in first class cricket. He has 115 wickets in his name in List A. Whereas in T20 he has taken 304 wickets. David Paine remained unsold in the IPL auction but due to the injury of Jack Edwards, he has now got a chance in this tournament. Sunrisers Hyderabad will give a chance to this player at the base price of Rs 75 lakh.
Let us tell you that Sunrisers Hyderabad will play without Pat Cummins in the initial matches of IPL 2026. This team lacks foreign fast bowlers. Apart from Pat Cummins, the team has only Ehsaan Malinga but now the arrival of David Paine will strengthen the team.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad will play the opening match of this season under the captaincy of Ishan Kishan. Apart from them, players like Abhishek Sharma, Heinrich Klaasen, Travis Head, Smaran Ravichandran, Salil Arora, Aniket Verma are in the team. Talking about all-rounders, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Liam Livingston, Harsh Dubey, Harshal Patel, Braydon Carse are in the team. In bowling, quality bowlers like Jaydev Unadkat, Zeeshan Ansari, Shivam Mavi are included in this team.
