Delhi Capitals has decided its captain for IPL 2025. According to reports, veterans like KL Rahul, Faf Du Plessis are not getting the responsibility of captaincy. This team is going to hand over the captaincy to Akshar Patel this season. Akshar Patel was the vice-captain of the team last season and this year he is being promoted. The previous captain of Delhi Capitals was Rishabh Pant, who was released by this franchise, he has now moved to Lucknow Supergiants team. In such a situation, the responsibility of captaincy of Delhi has fallen on Akshar Patel, who was retained by this team.

Responsibility fell on Akshar Patel

Akshar Patel was retained by Delhi Capitals at a huge price of Rs 16.50 crore. This left-handed all-rounder has been playing well for Delhi for a long time and his street smart attitude makes him the best for captaincy. Talking about the experience of Akshar Patel, this player has played 150 matches in IPL in which he has scored 1653 runs at an average of 21.47. Apart from this, Akshar has taken 123 wickets. His economy rate is also 7.28 runs per over. Talking about the last season, Akshar had scored 235 runs at an average of 29.38 and was also successful in taking 11 wickets.

Delhi had other options

Delhi had other captaincy options. KL Rahul was a big name as he was captaining Lucknow Supergiants for the last 3 seasons. Apart from him, Faf Du Plessis is also associated with the Delhi team, who has been the captain of RCB. But despite having these two veterans in the team, the Delhi franchise has expressed its confidence in Akshar Patel.

Delhi Capitals Squad: KL Rahul, Harry Brook, Jake Fraser Magark, Karun Nair, Faf Du Plessis, Donovan Ferreira, Abhishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Rizvi, Darshan Nalkande, Vipraj Nigam, Ajay Mandal, Manwant Kumar, T Vijay, Madhav Tiwari, Akshar Patel, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera and Kuldeep Yadav.