Delhi Capitals Captain in IPL 2025: Right after releasing Rishabh Pant ahead of IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals named Axar Patel as their new captain for the season.
Delhi Capitals is one of the eight teams to make their IPL debut in 2008 and also one of the few teams to remain trophyless to date. In their 17-year-long history, Delhi Capitals made numerous changes to achieve the coveted trophy but still struggles to find the best combinations.
Delhi Capitals Captain in IPL 2025
With a mega auction planned for the 2025 season, Delhi Capitals is set to make massive changes in their dugout. As a process, DC released Ricky Ponting and named Hemang Badani as the new head coach.
Axar Patel will be the captain of Delhi Capitals in IPL 2025 while Faf du Plessis named as the vice captain of DC.
Following is the complete list of Delhi Capitals Captains in IPL since 2008 below:
- Axar Patel: 2025
- Rishabh Pant: 2021-2024
- David Warner: 2013-2023(16 Matches)
- Shreyas Iyer: 2018-2020(41 Matches)
- Karun Nair: 2017(3 Matches)
- Zaheer Khan: 2016-2017(23 Matches)
- JP Dumminy: 2015-2016(16 Matches)
- Kevin Pieterson: 2014(11 Matches)
- Ross Taylor: 2012(2 Matches)
- Mahela Jayawardene: 2012-2013(18 Matches)
- James Hopes: 2011(3 Matches)
- Dinesh Karthik: 2010-2014(6 Matches)
- Gautam Gambhir: 2009-2018(25 Matches)
- Virender Sehwag: 2008-2012(52 Matches)
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IPL 2025 Squad – DC
Following are the complete details of the IPL 2025 DC Squad with the player’s role, nationality and price:
| Player | Auction Price | Nation | Role |
| Tristan Stubbs (R) | INR 10 Cr | South Africa | WK-Batter |
| Abishek Porel (R) | INR 4 Cr | India | WK-Batter |
| Axar Patel (R) | INR 16.50 Cr | India | Allrounder |
| Kuldeep Yadav (R) | INR 13.25 Cr | India | Bowler |
| KL Rahul | INR 14 Cr | India | WK-Batter |
| Mitchell Starc | INR 11.75 Cr | Australia | Bowler |
| T. Natarajan | INR 10.75 Cr | India | Bowler |
| Jake Fraser-Mcgurk | INR 9 Cr | Australia | Batsman |
| Mukesh Kumar | INR 8 Cr | India | Bowler |
| Harry Brook | INR 6.25 Cr | England | Batsman |
| Ashutosh Sharma | INR 3.80 Cr | India | Allrounder |
| Mohit Sharma | INR 2.20 Cr | India | Bowler |
| Faf Du Plessis | INR 2 Cr | South Africa | Batsman |
| Sameer Rizvi | INR 95 Lakh | India | Batsman |
| Donovan Ferreira | INR 75 Lakh | South Africa | WK-Batter |
| Dushmantha Chameera | INR 75 Lakh | Sri Lanka | Bowler |
| Vipraj Nigam | INR 50 Lakh | India | Bowler |
| Karun Nair | INR 50 Lakh | India | Batsman |
| Madhav Tiwari | INR 40 Lakh | India | Allrounder |
| Tripurana Vijay | INR 30 Lakh | India | Allrounder |
| Manvanth Kumar L | INR 30 Lakh | India | Allrounder |
| Ajay Mandal | INR 30 Lakh | India | Allrounder |
| Darshan Nalkande | INR 30 Lakh | India | Bowler |
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IPL 2025
As per IPL 2025 schedule the first match will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bengaluru on 22 March 2025 in Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
The 18th edition of the Indian Premier League is set to be played between 21 March and 25 May 2025 in India. IPL teams will be categorised into two groups of five teams where a total of 70 group matches will be played before the playoff round.
The IPL 2025 will follow a Group stage and Playoffs format with the top four teams in the IPL 2025 points table advancing to the playoffs round.
Right before the tournament, as expected, the IPL 2025 withdrawal players list starts to fill while the respective team will name the replacement players for the IPL 2025 season.
