DELHI CAPITALS (DC) SQUAD ANALYSIS:
1) IPL PERFORMANCE OVER THE YEARS
(i) Results
2008 - 4th
2009 - 4th
2010 - 5th
2011 - 10th
2012 - 3rd
2013 - 9th
2014 - 8th
2015 - 7th
2016 - 6th
2017 - 6th
2018 - 8th
2019 - 3rd
2020 - Runner-Up
2021 - 3rd
2022 - 5th
2023 - 9th
2024 - 6th
(ii) Overall Win Percentage
254 - 116w/136l/2nr (45.67%)
(iii) Head To Head Win Percentage
CSK - 30 - 11w/19l (36.7%)
GT - 5 - 3w/2l (60%)
KKR - 34 - 16w/18l (44.1%)
LSG - 5 - 2w/3l (40%)
MI - 35 - 16w/19l (45.7%)
PBKS - 33 - 15w/17l/1nr (45.5%)
RR - 29 - 14w/15l (48.3%)
RCB - 32 - 11w/20l/1nr (34.4%)
SRH - 24 - 11w/13l (41.7%)
(iv) Home Ground for IPL 2025
Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi - 86 - 39w/45l/2nr (46.4%)
Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Vishakhapatnam - 7 - 3w/4l (42.9%)
2) PLAYERS IN-CHARGE FOR 2025
(i) Captain - Axar Patel
(ii) Vice Captain - Faf Du Plessis
(iii) Head Coach - Hemang Badani
(iv) Mentor - Kevin Pietersen
(v) Bowling Coach - Munaf Patel
(vi) Assistant Coach - Matthew Mott
(vii) Director of Cricket - Venugopal Rao
3) OVERSEAS PLAYERS
(i) Jake Fraser-McGurk
(ii) Mitchell Starc
(iii) Faf Du Plessis
(iv) Tristan Stubbs
(v) Dushmantha Chameera
(vi) Donovan Ferreira
(vii) Harry Brook - Ruled out, no replacement announced yet
4) SQUAD INFO WITH RECENT PERFORMANCES
OUT - Harry Brook
Injury - Mitchell Starc
Probable XII (Including Impact Player)
1) KL Rahul (WK) - RHB
Last 10 - 34*, 42*, 23, 41*, 40, 10, 2, 26, 43, 4, 13
2) Faf Du Plessis - RHB, Legbreak
Last 10 - 19, 14, 87, 14, 15, 27, 18, 61, 1
3) Jake Fraser-McGurk - RHB
Last 10 - 9, 2, 95, 7, 19, 0, 12, 1, 26, 2
4) Karun Nair - RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 86, 135, 45, 6r 0w, 122, 29, 3, 105r 0w, 39, 4, 27r 0w, 88r 0w, 122*, 112
5) Tristan Stubbs - RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 0, 2, 15, 26, 43, 5, 37, 35*, 4
6) Abhishek Porel - LHB, WK
Last 10 - 52, 31, 0, 57, 9, 55, 8, 1, 17, 170*, 22
7) Axar Patel (C) - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 29r 0w, 27r 1w, 42r 1w, 3r 1w, 8r 2w, 13r 2w, 41r 0w, 52r 1w, 15, 5r 1w
8) Ashutosh Sharma - RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 47, 8r 0w, 35, 75r 0w, 40, 9r 1w, 27, 50*, 20r 0w, 59r 2w
9) Kuldeep Yadav - LHB, LWS
Last 10 - 2w, 0w, 2w, 3w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 11r 3w, 3w, 0w, 1w, 14r 0w
10) Mitchell Starc - LHB, LF
Last 10 - 3w, 8r 0w, 2w, 19r 1w, 3w, 0w, 15r 0w, 5r 1w, 18r 3w, 0w, 6w, 18r 2w, 26r 2w, 12r 1w, 0w, 3w, 1w, 18r 6w
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Dushmantha Chameera (if Starc is still injured)
11) T Natarajan - LHB, LFM
Last 10 - 0w, 0w, 3w, 4w, 2w, 0w, 1w, 2w, 0w, 1w
12) Mukesh Kumar - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 2w, 11r 2w, 13r 2w, 2w, 2w, 2w, 1w, 4w, 3w, 1w, 6w, 1w, 4w, 2w
BENCH
13) Mohit Sharma - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 0w, 0w, 2w, 0w, 3w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 2w
14) Sameer Rizvi - RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 105, 0, 48, 26, 12, 24, 25*, 36*, 2, 0*
15) Dushmantha Chameera - RHB, RF
Last 10 - 1w, 1w, 2w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 3w, 3w, 1w, 23r 3w
16) Donovan Ferreira - RHB, Offbreak, RM
Last 10 - 51r 0w, 10r 3w, 14r 0w, 12, 32r 1w, 18r 0w, 2w, 26r 2w, 0w
17) Darshan Nalkande - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 51r 3w, 12r 1w, 4r 0w, 11r 2w, 3w, 1w, 2w, 6w, 0w, 1w, 0w
18) Vipraj Nigam - RHB, Legbreak
Last 10 - 0w, 1w, 6r 2w, 1w, 0w, 7r 0w, 27r 2w, 1w, 1w, 1w
19) Madhav Tiwari - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 12r 0w, 0r 0w, 2w, 17r 0w, 16r 1w, 27r 0w
20) Ajay Mandal - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 15r 0w, 12r 1w, 0w, 46r 5w, 13r 0w, 22r 0w, 12r 1w, 2r 1w, 0w, 69r 1w, 66r 2w, 11*, 1w, 64r 2w
21) Tripurana Vijay - RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 5w, 7r 5w, 2w, 15r 0w, 3r 0w, 1w, 8r 0w, 7r 0w, 16r 2w, 0w, 4w, 5w, 12r 0w
22) L Manvanth Kumar - LHB, RFM
Last 10 - 13r 0w, 0w, 8r 0w, 21r 0w, 11r 0w, 3r 0w, 1w, 28r 3w, 28r 4w, 0r 3w
Safe C/VC Choices
KL Rahul, Axar Patel
5) STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
(i) Poor Winning Percentage - They have a below 50% win percentage against every team except the Titans, and even at both their designated home grounds for the 2025 season. They are only one-time finalists, and haven't been able to qualify for the playoffs since the past 3 seasons either. Their historic record has been very mediocre, but they would want to change it this year with their revamped team.
(ii) A quality playing combination, but an inexperienced bench - The ideal XII above looks a very high quality combination, with enough experience and an excellent bowling unit, but apart from Mohit Sharma, none of the players at the bench are experienced enough in the IPL to be able to give an equal replacement to any of the players in the playing combination.
(iii) A non-attacking top order - With both Faf and Rahul more of technical players and not exactly attackers, they may come with enough experience but the way they start in the powerplay overs will be crucial in every game through the season. With McGurk and Stubbs coming into this season in a poor form, and Karun Nair also being a technical player, their batting order looks really good and experienced but will be interesting to see how this top 5 performs through the season.
(iv) One of the best bowling units - Starc-Natarajan-Kuldeep-Mukesh-Mohit-Chameera and their captain Axar. This is probably one of the best looking Bowling units amongst all the 10 teams this season. They have a LAO and an LWS bowler, two who can take the ball away from the right handers and left handers respectively. They may lack a quality powerplay bowling unit alongside Starc, but they do have 5 quality death over bowlers, with all their seamers equally capable to deliver at the death phase.
6) STATS FROM OVER THE YEARS (as part of any team before this)
(i) Top Run Scorers
-> KL Rahul - Runs (4683), Avg (45.47) - 132M/123I
-> Faf Du Plessis - Runs (4571), Avg (35.99) - 145M/138I
-> Axar Patel - Runs (1653), Avg (21.47) - 150M/113I
-> Karun Nair - Runs (1496), Avg (23.75) - 76M/68I
(ii) Top Wicket Takers
-> Mohit Sharma - Wickets (132), SR (17.07) - 112M/111I
-> Axar Patel - Wickets (123), SR (25.20) - 150M/148I
-> Kuldeep Yadav - Wickets (87), SR (20.07) - 84M/82I
-> T Natarajan - Wickets (67), SR (19.96) - 61M/61I
-> Mitchell Starc - Wickets (51), SR (16.29) - 41M/39I
-> Mukesh Kumar - Wickets (24), SR (16.63) - 20M/20I
7) PREDICTIONS FOR THIS SEASON
(i) Top Run Scorer
KL Rahul
(ii) Top Wicket Taker
Mitchell Starc
(iii) Most Valuable Player
Axar Patel
(iv) Points Table Position
4-7
8) C/VC Choices
Safe - KL Rahul, Axar Patel
GL - Mitchell Starc, Faf Du Plessis
Differential Pick - T Natarajan
Player to Watch Out For - Karun Nair
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