The Delhi Capitals team has retained a total of 4 players for the Indian Premier League 2025. The team has retained one foreign player including three Indians. Delhi has released wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant. This means that Pant will now be seen in the auction. Delhi has decided to retain Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, and Abhishek Porel.
Delhi Capitals retained Akshar Patel for Rs 16.5 crore, Kuldeep Yadav for Rs 13.25 crore, and Tristan Stubbs for Rs 10 crore while Abhishek Porel was retained as uncapped for Rs 4 crore. In this way, the franchise spent a total of Rs 120 crore from its purse. Now the team will enter the mega auction with Rs 7.25 crore. In the mega auction for IPL 2025, Delhi will try to include the best players in its team.
Delhi Capitals’ performance in IPL has not been anything special so far. Delhi is one of those few teams that have not been able to win a single IPL title to date. In such a situation, this franchise will try to end the title drought in the next season. For this, the team will focus on including match-winning players in its team in the auction.
Players retained by Delhi Capitals(DC):- Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, and Abhishek Porel.
This was the squad of Delhi Capitals in IPL 2024: Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper/captain), Axar Patel, Prithvi Shaw, Yash Dhul, Lalit Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Praveen Dubey, Khalil Ahmed, Vicky Ostwal, Mukesh Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Abhishek Porel, Ricky Bhui, Kumar Kushagra, Rasikh Salam. Sumit Kumar, Swastik Chhikara, Anrique Norkhia, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Tristan Stubbs, Jhay Richardson, Shai Hope, Jake Fraser-McGurk.