IPL 2025: Top 3 players SRH might release ahead of the mega-auction

After three catastrophically lacklustre seasons for the Indian Premier League franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) from 2021 onwards, the sun finally appeared to rise on the fortune of the 2016 winners. Notably, they enjoyed a fairly smooth campaign in the last edition, as they registered eight victories in the 13 matches which were played to completion. While their penultimate game was washed out.

There were plenty of positives to reflect upon, despite them getting severely overpowered in the final. It was after a long time when there batting as well as bowling units clicked in the same campaign. However, as much as the franchise might not like it, the impending mega-auction ahead of the 18th edition will require SRH to offload some of its players, in addition to retaining three of them.

Here are three key players SRH can release ahead of IPL 2025:

3. Umran Malik

Sunrisers Hyderabad might be keen on parting ways with the Jammu & Kashmir-born speedster despite him stirring supporters as well as cricket connoisseurs alike, with his brisk speed not only proving too hot to handle for batters but also helping him accrue 22 dismissals in SRH's 2022 installment in the IPL.

However, ever since the wonder season, Umran Malik just hasn't shown the same promise for SRH. The season to follow was accompanied by mediocre numbers of just five wickets in eight matches, that too at a bountifully high economy rate of 10.85. This led to him getting reduced to being a bench warmer for the remainder of the games, a trend which saw him play just a single game in the IPL 2024 season.

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Apart from him proving to be expensive, his trac record with injuries as well as illnesses has also not been one to inspire confidence from. Just after IPL 2024, Umran injured his hamstring post which he was down with a bout of dengue.