IPL 2023: 3 Players Sunrisers Hyderabad might pick at auction

2. Sam Curran

Sunrisers Hyderabad picked Romario Shepherd at the 2022 mega auction for a staggering sum of INR 7.75 crore. Though the 28-year-old fared well with the bat smashing 58 runs in three games at a strike rate of 141.46, he struggled to find his groove with the ball leaking runs at an alarming rate of 10.89. 

SRH were not inclined towards paying a hefty amount for the West Indies all-rounder for the 2023 season and thus, parted ways with him. With Shepherd released, the Hyderabad franchise would want to add a gun all-rounder in its arsenal and could go hammer and tongs to pick Sam Curran.

Curran has been a match-winner with both bat and ball and has proven his mettle in the T20 circuit. The 24-year-old has bagged 149 wickets in 145 games at an economy of 8.43 and smashed 1731 runs at a strike rate of 135.65.

Curran’s bowling stocks have grown leaps and bounds of late and his phenomenal performances at the T20 World Cup 2022 are a prime example of the same. The left-arm pacer bagged 13 wickets in mere six games at an impeccable economy of 6.52 and was adjudged the Player of the Tournament for his jaw-dropping bowling displays.

With the ball, the Northampton-born can deliver the goods at any phase of the game, and with the bat, the southpaw can act as a floater in the middle order in addition to being a dangerous lower order batter. Curran can be an asset to any side and SRH would try to sign him at the IPL 2023 auction.