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Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bowl first against Lucknow Super Giants in fourth match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium. For Delhi Capitals, KL Rahul is missing today's clash due to personal reasons. According to a report in Cricbuzz, KL Rahul, expecting his first child, has received special permission to skip the match.
Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants will be entering a new leadership phase when they square off against each other in their first match of IPL 2025 on Monday in Visakhapatnam. Delhi Capitals will be led by all-rounder Axar Patel while LSG will be playing under Rishabh Pant, who captained the Delhi-based franchise in 2024. During the mega auctions, LSG let go off their regular skipper KL Rahul and roped in wicketkeeper Pant at a record-breaking price of Rs 27 crore. On the other hand, Rahul joined Delhi for Rs 14 crore.
Ahead of Delhi Capitals (DC) opening their IPL 2025 campaign against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), skipper Axar Patel said he was non-committal over KL Rahul playing in Monday's game at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium due to personal reasons. Rahul joined the DC set-up in the run-up to their opening game in Visakhapatnam, but may or may not be for the game against LSG, a team he led previously, for personal reasons. It is to be noted that Rahul is expecting his first child with his wife Athiya Shetty.
With their respective leaders switching camps and squads undergoing major overhauls, both Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants, under new captains, will be eager to make a strong start to their IPL campaign when they face off in Visakhapatnam on Monday. For a second year running, the Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Stadium here will host two home matches for Delhi Capitals. Pant, who had been a Delhi Capitals' player throughout his IPL career and also their captain, left the franchise ahead of the mega auction last year and was snapped up by LSG for a record price of Rs 27 crore.
Delhi Capitals player KL Rahul might miss the first two matches of the side in Indian Premier League 2025. The 18th edition of IPL is set to kick off on March 22 with a match between defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Eden Gardens. DC start their campaign on March 24 with a match against Lucknow Super Giants in Visakhapatnam. The Axar Patel-led side faces Sunrisers Hyderabad next on March 30. Rahul might not be available for both the games as he is set to welcome his first child with wife Athiya Shetty, hinted Australia women's captain Alyssa Healy.
South African batter Faf Du Plessis was named as the vice-captain of the Delhi Capitals (DC) team ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. DC made the announcement on their official X handle by posting a video, in which Faf could be seen talking to someone on phone, saying phrases like "I am at home", "Delhi has been great and boys have been fantastic" to express his closeness with the team and also confirmed that he "is the vice-captain of Delhi Capitals and is very excited".
Former Indian cricket team skipper Sourav Ganguly turned cop for the recent promotional video for Netflix's web series 'Khakee: The Bengal Chapter'. In the promo released on Monday, Ganguly was seen in a police uniform and acting out several scenes with the instructions coming from the director. When the director asked him to show aggression, he remembers his history with former India coach Greg Chappell and instantly gets fired up. This was a clear dig at their shared history as the tussle between the two during the 2000s was quite well known. Over the years, Ganguly has spoken openly about Chappell's tenure as head coach and the negative impact it had on Indian cricket.