No Capital Gains For Delhi: Support Staff's Poor Tactical Calls, Captain Axar Patel's Dip In Bowling Form

The IPL title has eluded Delhi Capitals for 18 seasons now, and it won't be a surprise if the script is repeated in its 19th season. Delhi Capitals have more often than not lost their IPL seasons at the auction table itself save for a couple of seasons when Ricky Ponting and Sourav Ganguly had put forth a quality side. Rishabh Pant's unfortunate accident did create a void in the 2023 season and since then, things have once again gone off the boil. The swapping of management from JSW to GMR (as per agreement) also meant that new coaching staff headlined by Hemang Badani and Venugopal Rao came in with fresh philosophy and also got rid of Pant before the auctions.

Parth Jindal, one of the co-owners of DC didn't mince words when he said that "introspection" would be needed on a lot of aspects.

"Sorry to all Delhi Capitals fans - like you I too am reeling from the second half of the season. What started so well ended extremely poorly. There are positives to take from this campaign but for now all focus on the next game which we need to win.

"Post the season there will need to be a lot of introspection on a lot of aspects," Jindal wrote on 'X'.

But it would be high time both Jindal and GMR's head honcho Kiran Grandhi would need to sit across the table and admit that running the team two years at a time isn't a practical solution.

One can bet his last shirt that Venugopal Rao, Badani and Munaf Patel will be nowhere to be seen after the 2026 season -- that too if they are persisted with.

While the team's coaching staff can be chuffed that releasing Pant was a prudent call looking at his disastrous show for LSG after a record fee of Rs 27 crore, but getting KL Rahul for half the price didn't serve much purpose as the Indian Test