Delhi Capitals: The team of Delhi Capitals had started the season of IPL 2024 very badly under the captaincy of Rishabh Pant, but as the season progressed, the team of Delhi Capitals performed well under the leadership of Rishabh Pant.

Despite gaining momentum in the mid-season, the Delhi Capitals team could not make it to the playoffs. In such a situation, now some media reports are claiming that the team management of Delhi Capitals can release Rishabh Pant and Kuldeep Yadav before the IPL 2025 Auction. The team management of Delhi Capitals will not only release Pant and Kuldeep, but along with them, 18 players present in the team squad may also be discharged.

Delhi Capitals franchise may release Rishabh and Kuldeep

Rishabh Pant has been playing IPL cricket for Delhi Capitals since 2016, but so far neither as a player nor as a captain, Pant has been successful in making Delhi Capitals a champion.

In such a situation, it is almost certain that the team management of Delhi Capitals will trust some other player for the leadership role this time. On the other hand, Kuldeep Yadav has also been a part of Delhi Capitals for the last 3 seasons and he has also proved to be a match winner for the team, but Kuldeep Yadav would like to increase his price by going to the auction. Due to which it is believed that Kuldeep Yadav can also leave Delhi Capitals.

DC can retain these 7 players including Akshar, Prithvi, Porel

Delhi Capitals director Sourav Ganguly can include the team's star all-rounders Axar Patel, Prithvi Shaw, Abhishek Porel, Swastik Chhikara, Kumar Kushagra, Rasikh Dar and Jake Fraser-McGurk in the list of retained players before the IPL 2025 auction.

Delhi Capitals can release these 18 players

Rishabh Pant, Praveen Dubey, David Warner, Vicky Ostwal, Anrich Nortje, Abhishek Porel, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Lungi Ngidi, Lalit Yadav, Khalil Ahmed, Mitchell Marsh, Ishant Sharma, Yash Dhul, Mukesh Kumar, Tristan Stubbs, Ricky Bhui, Jhye Richardson, Sumit Kumar and Shai Hope