New Delhi: Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) have named all-rounder Harsh Dubey as a replacement for the injured Smaran Ravichandran, who has been ruled out of the remainder of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. Notably, 22-year-old Smaran, a left-handed batter from Karnataka, himself came in as a replacement at SRH, for the injured Adam Zampa last month.

Dubey, also 22, is a left-arm spin-bowling allrounder who represents Vidarbha in the domestic circuit and comes in for SRH at his base price of Rs. 30 lakh. Earlier this year, he was named Player of the Tournament for his stellar show in the Ranji Trophy, in which he amassed 476 runs and broke the record for the most wickets in a Ranji Trophy season ever as he claimed 69 wickets in Vidarbha's 2024-25 title-winning run.

Overall, the youngster has featured in 16 T20s, 20 List A matches, and 18 first-class games, picking 127 wickets and hitting 941 runs across the formats. Although he has left an impression in the Ranji Trophy, which has led to his stocks rising, he has moderate returns in the white-ball formats. In List A cricket, he has 21 wickets from 20 innings, averaging 34.66, while he has nine wickets from 16 bowling innings in T20s, at an economy rate of 6.78.

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SRH all but out

Dubey's arrival at SRH is at a time when their IPL 2025 campaign is all but over, notably after making it into the final in IPL 2024.

SRH only have a mathematical chance of going through to the playoffs as they have won only three of their ten games so far and are placed ninth on the points table. Even if they claim victories in their remaining four games, they can only get to 14 points.

This would leave them hoping that a couple of highly-ranked teams get on a losing streak to balance the nature of the season. Despite this happening, SRH's utterly poor current net run-rate of -1.192 would become a hurdle, which is the lowest of all the ten teams, including the already-eliminated Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR).

SRH next face Delhi Capitals (DC) on Monday evening, at their home - the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.