IPL 2025 will start on 22 March. This means that only a few days are left for the tournament to start. Earlier, Delhi Capitals has also announced the name of its new captain. Delhi has handed over the command of the team to Akshar Patel in the 18th season. Earlier Rishabh Pant was captaining the Delhi team. But this season he is a part of Lucknow Super Giants. Before IPL 2025, all-rounder Akshar, who performed brilliantly in the Champions Trophy, has got great news. With this, the wait of Delhi fans is also over, because this was the only team whose captain was not announced. 9 out of 10 teams playing IPL had already announced the names of their captains.

Axar Patel's record

Axar Patel has played 150 IPL matches so far and has scored 1653 runs at a strike rate of around 131. Also, he has taken 123 wickets at an economy rate of 7.28. However, he does not have experience of captaincy. He is still raw in this matter. But, with his all-round game, he has been the backbone of Delhi Capitals. Apart from this, 31-year-old Akshar has been associated with Delhi for 7 seasons. That is why he has been made the captain of the team. However, before Akshar Patel, KL Rahul, who joined the team this season, was at the forefront of the race for captaincy.

Apart from Team India, Rahul has experience of captaining Punjab Kings and Lucknow Super Giants in IPL. Therefore, there was talk of handing over the command of Delhi Capitals to him. But media reports revealed that he refused to lead the team. This cleared the way for Akshar. After Rahul's refusal, the management decided to make Akshar the captain. Delhi team had retained him for 16.50 crores for this season.

Delhi Capitals Squad

Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, Abhishek Porel, Mitchell Starc, KL Rahul, Jake Fraser McGurk, T Natarajan, Karun Nair, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Mukesh Kumar, Darshan Nalkande, Viparaj Nigam, Dushmanta Chameera, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurna Vijay, Manwant Kumar, Ajay Mandal, Donovan Ferreira.

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