IPL 2025: Will KL Rahul Feature Against Former Side Lucknow Super Giants? Axar Patel Issues A Major Update

Delhi Capitals will start their IPL 2025 campaign against Lucknow Super Giants on March 24. The Capitals will hope to turn around their fortunes in a fresh start in IPL 2025.

The Capitals have splashed the cash at the IPL 2025 mega auction and have accumulated a very competitive squad at their disposal. They brought in the likes of KL Rahul and Faf du Plessis and will seek to hit the ground running from the very first moment. There have been reports of KL Rahul’s potential absence in the first couple of matches due to personal reasons.

Ahead of the match captain Axar Patel cannot confirm the availability of the star Indian batter.

As quoted by ESPN he said, “Obviously, he joined the team. We don’t know yet [if he’ll play]. Right now we don’t know if he is available or not.”

KL Rahul will be central to the Capitals’ plans this season and the franchise is very determined to shrug off their previous difficulties. They remain one of the three IPL sides which haven’t lifted the IPL title once in the last 17 years. Axar sounded confident that they would be able to turn the tide in their favour.

“I am very confident about the Delhi Capitals team. I am playing since 2019 for Delhi Capitals and I have grown as a cricketer in this franchise. It’s an honour for me to lead this franchisee and there are many leaders in our team. So from them I get that experience and they are there for me. Faf is there, KL is there and many experienced players are there. So we have a good balanced team. And we will change the results this time.”

In order to change things around, Delhi also reshuffled their backroom staff adding Hemang Badani and Venugopal Rao as the Head Coach (IPL) and Director of Cricket (IPL) respectively.