IPL 2025: India's star pacer Umran Malik has been ruled out from the upcoming season owing to an injury. Kolkata Knight Riders roped in the youngster for Rs 75 lakh during the mega auction last year .

As per a media release, the defending champion has named Chetan Sakariya as his replacement.

"KKR pick Chetan Sakariya as a replacement for Umran Malik. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) picked Chetan Sakariya as a replacement for Umran Malik for the upcoming edition of the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. Umran Malik is ruled out of the season due to an injury.

Sakariya has represented India in an ODI and two T20Is and has played 19 IPL games, scalping 20 wickets from the same. Sakariya, a left-arm medium pacer, joins KKR for INR 75 lakh" the statement released by KKR said.

The left-arm medium-fast bowler Chetan Sakariya has played for India in one ODI and two T20Is till now and has played in 19 IPL matches, where he has taken 20 wickets.

Hailing from Jammu and Kashmir, Umran Malik witnessed an immediate rise during the IPL 2022 as he had taken 22 wickets after playing in 14 matches. On the back of his brilliant performances in the IPL, he then received his debut cap for India.

But owing to his inconsistent performances and a few injuries,led to him getting dropped from the national side and also from the cash-rich league tournament.

UPDATED KKR SQUAD FOR IPL 2025

Rinku Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Anrich Nortje, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Spencer Johnson, Luvnith Sisodia, Ajinkya Rahane, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali, Chetan Sakariya.

UPDATED KKR SQUAD FOR IPL 2025

Rinku Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Anrich Nortje, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Spencer Johnson, Luvnith Sisodia, Ajinkya Rahane, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali, Chetan Sakariya.