- Before IPL 2025, this franchise suddenly announced a new captain. This season, the 27-year-old spinner has been made the new captain of the team.
IPL 2025: Even before the start of the Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025), this franchise has suddenly changed its captain. In place of the experienced captain, a 27-year-old star spinner has been made the new captain of the team. She will be seen captaining her team for the first time this season. Her fans will also be waiting for the first title this season. This year, before IPL 2025, the third edition of the Women’s Premier League 2025 will start on February 14. That is, the coming few months are going to be explosive for the fans. But even before that, this franchise has surprised everyone by changing the captain.
This spinner was made the captain
Before IPL 2025, the Women’s Premier League 2025 will start in India from February 14. A few days before its third edition, UP Warriors have changed their captain. This season, the Indian team’s star off-spinner Deepti Sharma will be seen captaining UP. Earlier Australia’s captain Alyssa Healy was handling the captaincy of UP Warriors, but due to repeated leg injuries, she is out this season. Deepti Sharma has previously been the vice-captain of Team India.
While she has a lot of experience of captaining at the domestic level. Deepti took over the captaincy of the Velocity team in the last season of the T20 Challenge in the year 2022 and under her captaincy her team reached the finals. Although she could not win the title for her team, there was a lot of discussion about her captaincy everywhere. Now the fans of UP Warriors will hope that Deepti wins the first title this season.
Deepthi gives a wonderful performance
Deepti Sharma not only shines on batsmen with her off-spin bowling but is also capable of playing big innings with the bat. Deepti was bought by UP Warriors for Rs 2.6 crore in the first season’s auction, after which in 2023 she contributed 90 runs with the bat and also took 9 wickets. While in 2024 she scored 295 runs and took 10 wickets.
Deepti was recently included in the 2024 Women’s T20 Team of the Year by the ICC. She has played 124 T20I matches for India so far, in which she has scored 1086 runs with the bat, including 2 half-centuries. At the same time, she has taken 138 wickets with the ball. Her economy is also close to 6, which clearly shows that along with taking wickets, she also makes the batsmen crave runs.