Rishabh Pant: As soon as the list of retained players released by the IPL franchise came out, the fans were quite surprised. Many big players will participate in this auction. Which includes this IPL’s winning captain Shreyas Iyer, Team India’s explosive batsman Rishabh Pant and Team India’s middle-order batsman KL Rahul.
Rishabh Pant left Delhi
Rishabh Pant has left Delhi Capitals this season. Pant was a part of Delhi for the last 9 seasons, but this time due to change in team management and team owners, Rishabh has decided to leave Delhi. After Rishabh’s departure, now the Delhi Capitals team also needs a captain. Because till now the command of Delhi was in the hands of Rishabh.
Akshar Patel can become the captain of Delhi
If media reports are to be believed, Delhi owners have chosen the captain for IPL 2025, according to which Akshar Patel can captain Delhi this time. Akshar had performed well in IPL and T20 World Cup. Only after seeing this, Akshar can be made the captain of the team. Akshar has been playing for Delhi Capitals for the last several years and is also an important part of their team.
In the absence of Rishabh, Akshar Patel was the vice-captain of the team. Akshar’s performance has been good in the last few years due to which he remains in the Indian team in all three formats, although right now he does not get a chance to play in the playing eleven because of Ravindra Jadeja. But in whatever opportunities he has got, Akshar’s performance has been good.
Characters retained for Rs 16.50 crore
Keeping this in view, the owner of Delhi Capitals may decide to make Akshar Patel the captain. This time Akshar has been retained for Rs 16.50 crore.
Retained players of Delhi Capitals for IPL 2025 –
Akshar Patel (16.50 crore), Kuldeep Yadav (13.25 crore), Tristan Stubbs (10 crore)
Ishan Poral (4 Crore) – Uncapped
Amount spent – 43.75 crores
Remaining amount – 76.25 crores
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