Cummins led SRH in the last two seasons.
Why Is Pat Cummins Not In SRH Playing XI Tonight for KKR vs SRH IPL 2026? It is a question that will be on the minds of many fans, especially Sunrisers Hyderabad as their captain misses their second consecutive fixture of the 19th edition.
Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad lock horns in their respective second game of the IPL 2026, being played at Eden Gardens, in Kolkata. Cummins is not part of the SRH playing XI with Ishan Kishan leading the side.
Pat Cummins is not playing this because of his fitness. The Australian pacer has been battling a long-term back injury that has kept him out of action since the third Ashes Test. He played only one Test in that series, and has flared up his injury further. Cummins also had to miss the T20 World Cup due to that injury.
As per the latest update, he is likely to miss a big chunk of the tournament but is hoping to play the second half, given that the recovery stays on track. He has joined the Sunrisers Hyderabad squad, and has started training.
“I’m back bowling. I’m bowling basically every third day at the moment. We’ve mapped out a plan to get me right by the middle of the tournament. So hopefully, if nothing goes wrong, I’ll play the back half plus the finals,” Cummins said in Business of Sport podcast.
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Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy, Blessing Muzarabani, Kartik Tyagi
KKR Impact Subs: Finn Allen, Manish Pandey, Saurabh Dubey, Rovman Powell, Tejasvi Dahiya
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan(w/c), Heinrich Klaasen, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Salil Arora, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, David Payne
SRH Impact Subs: Harshal Patel, Liam Livingstone, Eshan Malinga, R Smaran, Sakib Hussain
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