MUMBAI: In a sensational growth, India’s star wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant won’t lead the Delhi Capitals in IPL-2025, TOI has reliably learnt.
“Sure, the Delhi Capitals may very well be on the lookout for a brand new captain. There are probabilities that India allrounder Axar Patel could take over as the brand new IPL captain, or the franchise may very well be eyeing somebody who’s captaincy materials on the IPL public sale (more likely to happen abroad in mid-November).Pant, although, is about to be the franchise’s prime retention. It is simply that the management group at DC feels that he is higher off with out the pressures of captaincy,” the supply instructed TOI.
DC final reached the IPL playoffs in IPL-2021, and their best-ever end within the IPL is after they completed as IPL-2020 finalists, beneath India batsman Shreyas Iyer‘s captaincy.
Coming back from an damage in a horrific automotive accident which stored him out of the sport for a year-and-a-half, Pant led the Delhi Capitals in IPL-2024, the place they completed sixth, logging six wins and shedding as many matches.
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One potential choice for the franchise within the public sale, if the Kolkata Knight Riders do not retain him, is Iyer, who led KKR to their third IPL title earlier this 12 months.
It is learnt that Pant just lately met with Delhi Capitals’ co-owners Parth Jindal and Kiran Kumar Grandhi to debate his future on the franchise.
Curiously, simply after midnight on October 12, the 27-year-old posted on X (previously Twitter), “If I’m going to the public sale, will I be bought or not and for the way a lot ??”
Pant has been India’s largest match-winner with the bat in current instances in Check cricket, however his efficiency in white-ball codecs hasn’t been at par along with his red-ball exploits for India.
In 76 T20Is, he has scored 1,209 runs, with simply three half-centuries, at a median of 23.25, and a strike fee of 127.26.
One strong knock from him was a 31-ball 42 in opposition to Pakistan on a tough pitch in New York in a low-scoring match of the 2024 T20 World Cup, that helped India win the match by six runs. Within the IPL, the place he has performed for the Delhi-based IPL franchise all via, Pant has scored 3284 runs in 111 matches@35.31, with 18 fifties and 100.
Within the 2022 T20 World Cup, Pant was pipped by Dinesh Karthik in India’s XI throughout the T20 World Cup.
The Delhi Capitals just lately appointed former India and Tamil Nadu batsman Hemang Badani as head coach for the following two seasons, whereas additionally appointing his former India teammate Venugopal Rao because the crew’s director of cricket.
