The 2025 season was the 18th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket franchise Delhi Capitals. They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2025 IPL. Ahead of the season, Axar Patel was appointed as the captain. The team was coached by Hemang Badani.
Delhi Capitals were the last team to be eliminated in the 2025 IPL league stage after their loss to Mumbai Indians. They finished the season in fifth place with seven wins from 14 matches. KL Rahul scored the most runs (539) while Kuldeep Yadav took the most wickets (15) for Delhi in the 2025 season.
Pre-season
The 2025 Indian Premier League was the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league, organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Delhi Capitals were one of the four active franchises to not have won the IPL title prior to 2025. The team finished in sixth place in the previous season.. The tournament featured ten teams competing in 74 matches from 22 March to 3 June 2025. Delhi played most their home matches at Arun Jaitley Stadium with two matches played at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium.
Player retention Franchises were allowed to retain a maximum of six players from their squad, including a maximum of five recent international players. Franchises were required to submit their retention lists before 31 October 2024. Delhi retained four players but did not retain their prior captain Rishabh Pant.
+ Retained players No. Player Salary 1 Axar Patel 2 Kuldeep Yadav 3 Tristan Stubbs 4 Abhishek Porel
+ Released players Batters Wicket-keepers All-rounders Fast bowlers Spin bowlers David Warner Prithvi Shaw Yash Dhull Shai Hope Jake Fraser-McGurk Swastik Chikara Harry Brook Rishabh Pant Ricky Bhui Kumar Kushagra Mitchell Marsh Lalit Yadav Gulbadin Naib Sumit Kumar Anrich Nortje Ishant Sharma Mukesh Kumar Lungi Ngidi Rasikh Salam Dar Khaleel Ahmed Jhye Richardson Lizaad Williams Praveen Dubey Vicky Ostwal
Auction The season's auction took place on 24 and 25 November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The auction purse for each franchise was set at , with the franchises being deducted an amount from the purse for each retained player. Delhi had a purse remaining of . Franchises that did not retain six players, were allowed Right-to-Match (RTM) cards at the auction for each player not retained. Delhi had two cards available. Delhi bought nineteen players in the auction, including nine capped players and five overseas players. Delhi used their RTM cards to buy back Jake Fraser-McGurk and Mukesh Kumar for and respectively.
Squad Players with international caps as of start of 2025 IPL are listed in bold. Ages are as of . Withdrawn players are indicated by a dagger symbol () and placed at the bottom of the table.
+ Delhi Capitals squad for the 2025 Indian Premier League S/N Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Salary Notes 1 KL Rahul Right-handed Right-arm medium 2 Donovan Ferreira Right-handed Right-arm off break Overseas 7 Sameer Rizvi Right-handed Right arm off-break 13 Faf du Plessis Right-handed Right-arm leg-break Overseas; stand-in captain 20 Axar Patel Left-handed Left-arm orthodox Captain 23 Kuldeep Yadav Left-handed Left-arm wrist spin 24 Abhishek Porel Left-handed 27 Mohit Sharma Right-handed Right-arm medium 28 Vipraj Nigam Right-handed Right-arm legbreak 30 Tristan Stubbs Right-handed Overseas 49 Mukesh Kumar Right-handed Right-arm medium 50 Tripurana Vijay Right-handed Right arm off-break 56 Mitchell Starc Left-handed Left-arm fast Overseas 90 Mustafizur Rahman Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium Overseas; temporary replacement Sediqullah Atal Left-handed Overseas; replacement Dushmantha Chameera Right-handed Left-arm fast Overseas Manvanth Kumar Left-handed Right arm Fast medium Ajay Mandal Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Karun Nair Right-handed Right-arm off break Darshan Nalkande Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium T. Natarajan Left-handed Left-arm medium Ashutosh Sharma Right-handed Madhav Tiwari Right-handed Right arm Fast medium 33 Jake Fraser-McGurk Right-handed Right-arm leg spin Overseas; withdrawn 88 Harry Brook Right-handed Right-arm medium Overseas; withdrawn
Support staff Hemang Badani replaced Ricky Ponting as head coach; Matthew Mott replaced Pravin Amre and Ajit Agarkar as assistant coaches; Munaf Patel replaced James Hopes as bowling coach; Anton Roux and Gnaneswara Rao replaced Biju George as fielding coaches; and Kevin Pietersen joined as a mentor.
Position Name Head coach Hemang Badani Assistant coach Matthew Mott Bowling coach Munaf Patel Fielding coach Anton RouxGnaneswara Rao Mentor Kevin Pietersen Source: Wisden
League stage Delhi Capitals began their season with four consecutive wins against Lucknow Super Giants, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Then lost to Mumbai Indians, defeated Rajasthan Royals in Super Over, lost to Gujarat Titans, defeated Lucknow again; and lost to Bengaluru and Kolkata Knight Riders. Delhi's eleventh match against Hyderabad was abandoned due to rain. They lost their next two matches against Gujarat and Mumbai to be eliminated from the 2025 IPL; but won in their last match of the season against Punjab Kings.
Points table
League progression
Fixtures
Statistics
+ Most runs Runs Player 539 KL Rahul 301 Abhishek Porel 300 Tristan Stubbs 263 Axar Patel 204 Ashutosh Sharma + Most wickets Wickets Player 15 Kuldeep Yadav 14 Mitchell Starc 12 Mukesh Kumar 11 Vipraj Nigam 5 Axar Patel
References Original 2025 IPL Schedule vs Revised 2025 IPL Schedule
General references
External links
Delhi Capitals at IPLT20.com