KKR vs MI: Who is Saurabh Dubey? Entry in the team in place of injured player, took the wickets of Rohit-Surya

Saurabh Dubey: In the 65th match of IPL 2026, Kolkata Knight Riders’ young fast bowler Saurabh Dubey has attracted everyone’s attention with his brilliant performance. In the match played against Mumbai Indians at Eden Gardens, this uncapped player gave a great start to KKR by dismissing big batsmen like Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav. The special thing was that Saurabh Dubey got a chance to replace an injured player in the team and he made the most of this opportunity. Let us know in detail about this star player…

Who is Saurabh Dubey?

28 year old Saurabh Dubey is a left arm fast bowler from Vidarbha. Saurabh, a resident of Wardha, Maharashtra, came into limelight for the first time in 2019. When he took the most wickets for India in the ‘ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup’. Saurabh plays for Vidarbha in domestic cricket. In List A cricket, he has taken 16 wickets in 8 matches for Vidarbha. However, he has not got a chance to play much in the senior team. This 6 feet 5 inches young bowler impressed everyone with his brilliant performance while playing for Orange Tigers in the ‘Vidarbha Pro T20 League’ last year. Due to this brilliant performance, he made it to the IPL.

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Rohit Sharma was caught out

In the match against Mumbai Indians, Saurabh Dubey first got the big wicket of former captain Rohit Sharma. Rohit looked to be in good form, but could not last long against Dubey’s accurate bowling. During Mumbai’s innings, Saurabh moved his fingers on the fifth ball of the fourth over, on which Rohit tried to make a shot but due to lack of proper timing, the ball went in the air over mid-wicket. Rohit took a brilliant catch after running from Cameron Green and was out. In this match, Rohit could score only 15 runs in 13 balls.

Saurabh Dubey’s first three wickets in T20s

🔸Jos Buttler
🔸Rohit Sharma
🔸Suryakumar Yadav pic.twitter.com/Hr5rMpJfjF

— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) May 20, 2026

Surya was clean bowled

After this, on the third ball of the sixth over, Saurabh made Suryakumar Yadav his victim and bowled him. During this, Surya was out after scoring 15 runs in 6 balls. Let us tell you, Saurabh came round the wicket and bowled a full length ball to Surya, which while attempting to drive, hit the stumps and Surya was bowled.