IPL 2025: Star cricketer KL Rahul is likely to miss the first two games of Delhi Capitals' Indian Premier League (IPL) season as his wife Athiya Shetty is pregnant. Rahul is preparing for the birth of his first child with Athiya. The star batter announced the pregnancy just days after winning the Champions Trophy for India earlier this month.
Mitchell Starc's wife and the captain of the Australia women's team, Alyssa Healy revealed Rahul might not play the first two matches. Starc joined the DC camp a few days back. Healy revealed the news while talking about the franchise with YouTube channel LiSTNR Sport.
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“No Harry Brook, (so) it will be interesting to see who the replacement player will be. They have KL Rahul, who will probably not play the first couple of games I think... they are awaiting the birth of (their) child, but that dynamic, is really cool,” Healy said.
“They have that power in the young guys but they also have a KL Rahul who can stitch the innings in T20 cricket. He's going to be really exciting to watch.”
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KL Rahul was roped in by the Capitals for Rs 14 crore in the IPL mega auction. He was released by the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) who interestingly bought Rishabh Pant for Rs 27 crore, a player who was captain of the Delhi franchise and even started his IPL career with them. LSG and DC will lock horns on March 24 which will be the opening match of the season for both teams.
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High hopes from Axar Patel
All-rounder Axar Patel has been named the Delhi Capitals' IPL 2025 captain in lieu of Pant, who left the team prior to the high-profile auction. With DC since 2019, Axar, 31, was retained for Rs 16.50 crore. Despite having no experience as an IPL captain, Axar led Gujarat in domestic cricket and was India's vice-captain for the Twenty20 International earlier this year. The DC management would be hoping Axar Patel could get the job done this season with a solid squad backing him to lift the franchise's first IPL title.
IPL 2025: DC squad
KL Rahul, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Karun Nair, Abhishek Porel, Tristian Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natrajan, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Mukesh Kumar, Darshan Nalkande, Vipraj Nigam, Dushmanta Chameera, Donovan Ferreira, Ajay Mandal, Manvanth Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari.
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