Recently a mega auction was organized in Jeddah for IPL 2025. Where Delhi Capitals team completed their team with 23 players. He included many big players in his team in the auction. Delhi Capitals have not even retained their former captain Rishabh Pant this time. Due to which this time they are looking for a new captain. Meanwhile, a player has played a brilliant innings in domestic cricket. Delhi Capitals team can also make this player their new captain in IPL 2025. This player is none other than Akshar Patel.
Amazing work by Akshar Patel
Akshar Patel has played a brilliant innings during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Akshar Patel has batted strongly in the match played between Gujarat and Karnataka. In this match, Karnataka won the toss and asked Gujarat to bat. Batting first, the Gujarat team scored 251 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. Meanwhile, Akshar Patel played an innings of 56 runs in just 20 balls at a strike rate of 280. During this he also hit 2 fours and 6 sixes.
Akshar Patel has performed brilliantly throughout the tournament. He has scored a total of 134 runs at a strike rate of 171.79 in 7 matches during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024. During this time his average has been 67. Akshar is playing the role of finisher for his team. Under his captaincy, the Gujarat team has won 6 out of 7 matches so far. His performance as a captain has been outstanding.
Delhi Capitals retained
He was retained by Delhi Capitals ahead of the IPL 2025 auction. Delhi retained him for 16.50 crores. Akshar Patel is the frontrunner in the race to become the captain of Delhi Capitals. Speaking to ESPNcricinfo about the captaincy of Delhi Capitals, Jindal said that Akshar Patel has been with the franchise for a long time and was the vice-captain last season, so we don’t know if Akshar will play the role or not. or someone else.
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