'Shaken' Delhi Capitals Star Refuses To Re-Join IPL 2025 Even After India-Pakistan Ceasefire

Around 6 pm Australia time on Wednesday, Jake Fraser-McGurk's manager told Delhi Capitals (DC) that the young right-handed opener will not be coming back to India for the franchise's remaining games in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, restarting on May 17. Subsequently, DC have now roped in Bangladesh's left-arm fast-bowler Mustafizur Rahman, who on his day can bamboozle batters with his cutters and slower balls. IANS understands that a majority of overseas cricketers from Australia, especially in DC and Punjab Kings (PBKS) set-ups, had been gripped by fear and tension for their lives after the game was called off in Dharamshala last week.

“Jake was shaken more than most overseas players in Dharamshala at that time. It's not surprising (his decision to pull out of IPL 2025), given that he is the youngest of the overseas players in the DC setup. Moreover, he was quite uneasy the day before the game happened in Dharamshala, and then obviously after we were evacuated, we made the subsequent trip back to Delhi with others.”

“In all, he wasn't feeling things in a good way, and I am very thankful I was there to help guide him through all of that. I mean, it was hard enough for a 50-year-old, well-travelled man like me, let alone a young kid. I was there in a support role of a player who is more like a son to me than a cricketer,” Shannon Young, Fraser-McGurk's childhood coach, who was in Dharamshala at that time, told IANS on Wednesday.

This agency also understands that internally, a few of the overseas players from both teams, especially from Australia, had expressed concerns over playing in Dharamshala on May 8, as cross-border tensions between India and Pakistan intensified, but they were somehow convinced by the