IPL 2025: Team India's all-rounder and the old member of the Delhi Capitals Axar Patel named as the skipper of the side after having a tough captaincy battle between him and KL Rahul.
The 31-year-old cricketer from Gujarat was retained for Rs 18 crore by DC ahead of the IPL 2025 Mega-Auction. Axar was DC’s vice-captain in IPL 2024 and also had the chance to lead the team in one game.
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List Of DC Captains In IPL
With this, Axar becomes the 14th captain of Delhi Capitals. Last time, it was Rishabh Pant who changed his base to Lucknow Super Giants in the Mega Auction.
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| No. | Captain |
|---|---|
| 1 | Virender Sehwag |
| 2 | Gautam Gambhir |
| 3 | Dinesh Karthik |
| 4 | James Hopes |
| 5 | Mahela Jayawardene |
| 6 | Ross Taylor |
| 7 | David Warner |
| 8 | Kevin Pietersen |
| 9 | JP Duminy |
| 10 | Zaheer Khan |
| 11 | Karun Nair |
| 12 | Shreyas Iyer |
| 13 | Rishabh Pant |
| 14 | Axar Patel |
Axar Patel In IPL
In his 7th season with the Delhi Capitals, the 31-year-old Axar, who has played 150 IPL matches, scored 1653 runs at a strike rate of nearly 131 and took 123 wickets at an economy rate of 7.28.
Delhi Capitals Squad For IPL 2025
Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, Abishek 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, Vipraj Nigam, Dushmantha Chameera, Donovan Ferreira, Ajay Mandal, Manvanth Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari.
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