- Delhi Capitals has released Rishabh Pant for IPL 2025. In such a situation, Delhi’s first choice in the IPL auction will be to buy a captain for its team.
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Delhi Capitals: Delhi Capitals has released Rishabh Pant for IPL 2025. In such a situation, Delhi’s first choice in the IPL auction will be to buy a captain for their team. Although the team is going to have a lot of options. But it is almost certain about an Indian player. The team can buy him in any case. Let’s know who this player is.
Delhi Capitals can take this Indian player with them
The Indian Premier League 2025 auction will be held on November 24-25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Many big-name Indian players will also participate in the auction. These will include names like Shreyas Iyer, Rahul, Pant. Many teams may be keen to sign Kolkata Knight Riders’ winning captain Shreyas Iyer in the auction.
Delhi Capitals will keep a special eye on him. Let us tell you that Kolkata has not retained Iyer, they have decided to retain six players Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana and Varun Chakraborty.
Delhi can buy Shreyas Iyer
Since Kolkata has already retained 6 players, it will not be able to use the Right to Match card for Shreyas. At the same time, it is also coming out in some media reports that Delhi Capitals can buy Shreyas Iyer in the auction and can also give him the captaincy. Delhi also has a huge amount of 73 crores left for the auction. It is known that Iyer was with Delhi in IPL 2021, then Delhi released him, but now he is going to make a comeback again.
IPL career started with Delhi
Shreyas Iyer made his IPL debut for Delhi Capitals in 2015. He played for the same team till 2021. He was also the regular captain of this team from 2018 to 2020. Under his captaincy, Delhi has won 21 out of 41 matches. Under his captaincy, Delhi played the IPL final for the first time in 2020.
But at that time they had to settle for the runner-up position as they suffered a defeat against Mumbai Indians. Meanwhile, Shreyas Iyer was released from the contract by Delhi after the 2021 IPL. After this, Kolkata took him in the team