Delhi Capitals New Captain: The 18th season countdown of the world’s largest and popular cricket T20 League i.e. Indian Premier League 2025 has started. Just a few days before the start of the league, Delhi Capitals made Akshar Patel the captain of the team for the IPL 2025 season. On being made the captain, Akshar Patel said that captaining Delhi Capitals is a great honor for him. He has expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the team owners and coaching staff for expressing confidence in himself.
Akshar Patel said that in the last few years he has seen himself developing in this team into a cricketer and a person. He expressed confidence that the coaches and scouts of the team have formed a balanced and strong team in the mega auction, which has tremendous ability. Akshar said that there are many experienced players in the team, which will prove to be helpful for them. He spoke of being fully prepared for this challenge and hoped for a successful season with the support of fans.
The experienced players of DC are letters
Let us know that Akshar Patel is the longest player of Delhi Capitals. He started his journey with the team in 2019. Since then he has become the team’s most trusted all -rounder and one of the top performing players. He has played 82 matches for Delhi Capitals so far, in which he has taken 62 wickets from an economy of 7.09 and scored 967 runs. After Rishabh Pant’s departure and after connecting KL Rahul to the team, Delhi has bet on Akshar Patel, who performed brilliantly in the Champions Trophy.
DC chairman Kiran Kumar Gandhi expressed happiness
Kiran Kumar Gandhi, chairman of Delhi Capitals, expressed happiness over the appointment of Akshar Patel as captain, saying that Akshar has been a part of the team since 2019 and fully adopts the values of the team. He said that this decision reflects the natural progress of the leadership of the letter. His performance as the vice-captain for two sessions has fully designed him for this role. The chairman expressed confidence that Akshar would get full support from the coaching staff and leadership group of the team and will perform well in this role.
Akshar will prove to be an inspirational leader for the team – Parth Jindal
Partha Jindal, co-owner of Delhi Capitals, said that he has seen the progress of the letter closely as a cricketer and a leader. After individually choosing the letter in 2019, he has a relationship beyond cricket. Akshar has inspired the team as the vice-captain in the last two years.
Partha Jindal described Akshar as a luxurious, mature cricketer, whose all -round capacity was recently seen in India’s T20 World Cup and Champions Trophy victory. Jindal said that Akshar with senior players like KL Rahul, Faf du Plessis and Mitchell Starc will prove to be an inspirational leader for the team.
A letter’s IPL career
Looking at Akshar Patel’s IPL career, he has played a total of 150 IPL matches so far, in which he has scored 1653 runs and has taken 123 wickets. Playing for Punjab Kings in 2016, he achieved hat -trick with 4 wickets in 5 balls. He has emerged as a leading all -rounder for Delhi Capitals since 2019. Before the auction this time Delhi Capitals retained Akshar Patel for Rs 16.50 crore. Delhi Capitals will play the first match of IPL 2025 against Lucknow Super Giants on 24 March in Visakhapatnam.
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