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IPL 2025 will begin on 22 March. This means that there are only a few days left for the tournament to start. Earlier, Delhi Capitals have also announced the name of their new captain. Delhi has given the command of the team in the hands of Akshar Patel in the 18th season. Earlier, Rishabh Pant was captaining the Delhi team. But this season he is part of Lucknow Super Jeets. All -rounder Akshar, who performed brilliantly in the Champions Trophy before IPL 2025, has received great news. With this, the wait for the fans of Delhi 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.
Akshar Patel’s record
Akshar 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 the experience of captaincy. In this case, he is still raw. But, with his all -round game, he has remained the backbone of Delhi Capitals. Apart from this, 31 -year -old letters are associated with Delhi for 7 seasons. For this reason, he has been made the captain of the team. However, before Akshar Patel, KL Rahul, associated with the same season team, was at the forefront of the captaincy race.
Apart from Team India, Rahul has the 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 path of the letter. After Rahul’s refusal, the management decided to make Akshar a captain. The Delhi team retained 16.50 crores for this season.
Captain Swadeshi of 9 out of 10 of IPL
Delhi Capitals finally announced their team’s name this season. Earlier, the names of the captains of all teams have been announced. Out of all the 10 teams participating in IPL 2025, only Sunrisers Hyderabad captain is foreign, otherwise the captains of all the 9 teams are Indians. Let us tell you who are the captains of all the 10 teams participating in this season.
Delhi captain Akshar Patel has become the captain of Hyderabad, Pat Cummins. Apart from this, Punjab Kings made Shreyas Iyer the captain of the team for this season, while the Mumbai Indians team will be commanded by Hardik Pandya. Lucknow Super Gients made Rishabh Pant the new captain of the team for this season, while the captaincy of Gujarat Titans will be in the hands of Shubman Gill.
Rajasthan Royals captain is Sanju Samson, who has been fulfilling this responsibility for this team since the last several seasons, while RCB entrusted the team’s captaincy to the young player Rajat Patidar for this season. Chennai Super Kings captained Rituraj Gaikwad, who was made the captain of this team in the last season, Kolkata Knight Riders made experienced Ajinkya Rahane the captain of the team.
Captains of all teams in IPL 2025
Delhi Capitals: Akshar Patel
Sunriders Hyderabad: Pat Cummins
Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer
Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya
Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant
Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill
Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Rajat Patidar
Chennai Super Kings: Rituraj Gaikwad
Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane
Squad of Delhi Capitals
Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Triston Stabs, Abhishek Porel, Mitchell Starc, KL Rahul, Jake Fraser McGark, T. Natarajan, Karun Nair, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Faf du Plessi, Mukesh Kumar, Darshan Gande, Vipraj Nalande, Viparaj Nigam, Dushmanta Chamera, Madhav Tiwari, Madhv Tiwari, Madhw Tiwari, Donan Farera
