Delhi Capitals, on Friday, March 14, introduced the appointment of star all-rounder and the lads’s staff’s longest-serving participant Axar Patel as captain forward of the 2025 season of the Indian Premier League.
The 31-year-old initially joined the Capitals in 2019 and has since emerged as one of many top-performing gamers for the franchise throughout the six seasons along with his means to step as much as the event. Within the 82 matches he has donned the pink and blue of the Capitals, Patel has scored 967 runs and picked up 62 wickets at a formidable financial system of seven.09. Other than being a reside wire on the sphere, the all-rounder has additionally developed a particular rapport with the Capitals’ and the Indian nationwide staff’s followers.
Welcoming Axar because the staff’s new chief, Delhi Capitals Chairman Kiran Kumar Grandhi mentioned, “We’re delighted to nominate Axar because the Delhi Capitals captain. He has been an integral a part of the Capitals household since 2019 and embodies the values that this staff is constructed on. This determination displays the pure development for him as a pacesetter – from being our vice-captain for 2 seasons to now main the staff, he has at all times stepped as much as the event for us. Axar has the complete help of our teaching workers and the skilled management group, and I want him the perfect for this new position which I’m assured he’ll excel in.”
“I’ve witnessed Axar’s development as a cricketer and a pacesetter first-hand on the Delhi Capitals,” mentioned Delhi Capitals Co-owner Parth Jindal.
“Having personally picked Axar in 2019, my relationship with him is one which goes past cricket. Having seen him because the Vice Captain of the staff over the past two years, it’s protected to say that he’s a much-loved character within the dressing room and is somebody who I’m positive will encourage the gamers within the squad,” he mentioned.
“From being a cheap spinner who had a right away impression when he got here onto bowl, Axar has blossomed into a superb, mature cricketer whose all-round prowess was on full show in India’s T20 World Cup and Champions Trophy successful campaigns just lately. I want him good luck as he begins a brand new innings in his cricketing journey. With seniors like KL Rahul, Faf du Plessis and Mitchell Starc being a part of our management group, I imagine that is the beginning of one thing particular for the Delhi Capitals,” Parth added.
Grown as a cricketer and a human being with DC: Axar
“It’s my absolute honour to captain the Delhi Capitals, and I’m deeply grateful to our homeowners and help workers for putting their religion in me,” mentioned Axar Patel, on being appointed because the captain.
“I’ve grown as a cricketer and a human being throughout my time right here on the Capitals, and I really feel prepared and assured to guide this facet going ahead. Our coaches and scouts have performed an outstanding job on the mega public sale by placing collectively a balanced and strong squad which has super potential. We now have loads of leaders within the group which can also be very useful for me, and I can’t wait to hitch the staff as we stay up for a really profitable season for the Capitals, backed by the immense love and help of our followers.”
A brand new period begins in the present day 💙❤️
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A veteran of 150 IPL matches, Axar Patel has 1653 runs and 123 wickets to his identify which features a beautiful hat-trick in 2016 when he took 4 wickets in 5 balls for the Punjab franchise. Since becoming a member of the Capitals in 2019, the 31-year-old has developed himself as a dependable all-round specialist and can work carefully with the Capitals help workers that consists of Director of Cricket Venugopal Rao, Mentor Kevin Pietersen, Head Coach Hemang Badani, Assistant Coach Matthew Mott, and Bowling Coach Munaf Patel.
The Delhi Capitals will kick-start their IPL 2025 marketing campaign in Visakhapatnam on March 24, 2025 towards Lucknow Tremendous Giants.
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