Delhi Capitals New Captain 2025: Delhi Capitals management is preparing to create a brand new team for IPL 2025. The franchise has retained only four players before the mega auction. Delhi has also released its captain Rishabh Pant. In such a situation, the franchise is looking for a new captain.
If reports are to be believed, Delhi Capitals has decided its captain for IPL 2025. According to the report, Delhi is now going to hand over the captaincy to Akshar Patel in place of Rishabh Pant. However, Delhi Capitals has not announced it officially yet. This information has come to light from media reports.
The news of bad relationship between Delhi Capitals and Rishabh Pant had already come to light. Some time ago, Rishabh Pant had also tweeted about going to the auction. However, at that time everyone considered it a joke. But for the last few days, there were reports that all is not well between Pant and Delhi. Then when Delhi released Pant, all the speculations and reports proved correct.
Delhi Capitals has retained Axar Patel for Rs 16.5 crore, Kuldeep Yadav for Rs 13.25 crore, Truston Stubbs for Rs 10 crore and Abhishek Porel for Rs 4 crore. However, the franchise has not made any announcement regarding who will be the captain of Delhi in IPL 2025.
Each team has a purse value of Rs 120 crore for IPL 2025. Out of this, all the teams had to retain a maximum of six players. Delhi Capitals has retained a total of four players. Out of Rs 120 crore, Delhi has spent Rs 43 crore 75 lakh in retaining four players. Now Delhi Capitals will have Rs 76.25 crore in the mega auction of IPL 2025.
