IPL 2026: Delhi Capitals is fully prepared for IPL 2026. Delhi has recently included many star players in the auction. However, last year Delhi Capitals did not perform well in the IPL. Akshar Patel took command of the team in IPL 2025. However, the team could not impress much under his captaincy. Now Delhi Capitals is going to change its captain.

Delhi Capitals is going to change captain

According to the report of News 24, Delhi Capitals is preparing to change its captain. The franchise is going to make KL Rahul the captain for IPL 2026. Last season Delhi could not make it to the top-4. The team’s journey ended at fifth place in the points table. Delhi Capitals had 7 wins and 6 losses in 14 matches. However, now Delhi wants to make KL Rahul the captain in IPL 2026, who has long experience of captaining in IPL. Delhi had retained its star players KL Rahul, Karun Nair, Abhishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Mitchell Starc for the upcoming season. These players had shown a brilliant game.

How has been KL Rahul’s captaincy?

Apart from Punjab Kings, KL Rahul has captained Lucknow Super Giants in IPL. He has captained in 64 matches, in which the team has won 32 matches and the team has faced defeat in 30 matches. The result of 2 matches has not been released.

Delhi Capitals squad for IPL 2026

KL Rahul, Karun Nair, Abhishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Ajay Mandal, Tripura Vijay, Madhav Tiwary, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, Nitish Rana, Auqib Dar, Ben Duckett, David Miller, Pathum Nissanka, Lungi Ngidi, Sahil Parakh, Prithvi Shaw, Kyle Jamieson.

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