Rishabh Pant Delhi Capitals: A very shocking update has come out before the mega auction of IPL 2025. Actually, Delhi Capitals team is in no mood to retain Rishabh Pant for the upcoming season. Delhi has decided the names of the four players it wants to retain before the auction. The biggest names in this list are Akshar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav. Delhi's performance under Pant's captaincy last season was not anything special and the team failed to get a ticket for the playoffs.
🚨 NO RISHABH PANT FOR DELHI. 🚨
– Delhi Capitals have finalised Axar, Kuldeep, Stubbs and Abhishek Porel as their retention for IPL 2025. (Sahil Malhotra/TOI). pic.twitter.com/OgK2rPBFzX
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) October 30, 2024
Delhi will not retain Pant!
According to the news of Times of India, Delhi Capitals does not want to retain Rishabh Pant. Before the mega auction, Delhi has finalized the names of those players whom the team has decided to retain. Delhi wants to retain Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs and young batsman Abhishek Porel. Akshar's performance while playing for Delhi in the last two seasons has been amazing. In IPL 2024, Akshar scored 235 runs and also took 11 wickets in the 14 matches he played. Whereas, Kuldeep Yadav had taken 16 wickets in 11 matches last season. Considering Stubbs' recent form and tremendous T-20 record, Delhi wants to retain him. At the same time, Abhishek has also impressed with his batting in the last two seasons.
Many big teams will have their eyes on Pant
If Rishabh Pant enters the mega auction, then many big teams are going to have their eyes on him. The biggest name in this list is emerging from Chennai Super Kings. CSK will try its best to include Pant in its team at any cost. Along with this, teams like RCB, Gujarat Titans, Lucknow can also be seen making big bids for Pant.
Delhi has not reached the playoffs for three seasons
The performance of Delhi Capitals has been disappointing in the last few seasons of IPL. The team has failed to get a ticket to the playoffs for the last three seasons. Delhi last entered the playoffs in the year 2002. Since then the team has been seen struggling in the Indian Premier League. Delhi's best performance was seen under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer in the year 2020, when the team reached the finals.
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