Three better captaincy options for Delhi Capitals than Akshar Patel could have been: Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan.

The Indian Premier League 2025 starts from 22 March. In the upcoming season, Delhi Capitals appointed Akshar Patel as the captain of his team. In international cricket, Akshar Patel has always bowled well and great bowling from Team India and has put pressure on the opposing team.

Talking about Delhi Capitals, he has never named the Indian Premier League trophy. Now this team will have the important responsibility to win the IPL Trophy for the first time on Akshar Patel. All the people believed that KL Rahul should have given this responsibility. However, the Delhi franchise has given this task to Akshar Patel. With this, today we tell you about three such players who could prove to be better options than Akshar Patel as captain for Delhi Capitals.

1- Karun Nair

In the Mega auction of IPL 2025, Karun Nair included Delhi Capitals in his team for Rs 50 lakh. For some time, this dhakad batsman has done very well in domestic cricket and has scored fierce runs with his bat. Karun Nair has participated in the 2016 and 2017 seasons from Delhi Capitals in IPL. Not only this, when Zaheer Khan was injured in the 2017 season, he took command of the team.

Karun Nair has a lot of experience in captaincy in domestic cricket. Under his captaincy, the Maharaja Trophy was named by Mysuru Warriors in September 2024.

2- Faf du Plessis

South African legendary player Faf du Plessis has also captained his team in international cricket and along with the Royal Challengers Bangalore team in the IPL. In the last three seasons, he captained the Royal Challengers Bangalore team, out of which twice the team confirmed their place in the playoffs. Not only this, in SA20 2025, under his captaincy, Gonburg Super Kings made their place in the eliminator.

In this tournament, the legendary batsman scored 286 runs in 10 innings. Faf du Plessis is a very aggressive captain and he can also fulfill the responsibility of opening. Akshar Patel will get to learn a lot about the captaincy from them.

3- KL Rahul

Delhi Capitals included KL Rahul in their team for Rs 14 crore. KL Rahul has captained the Punjab Kings and Lucknow Super Giants team. Not only this, he has also captained Team India in international cricket.

However, the report believes that Rahul wanted to participate in the upcoming season as a player and that is why he removed himself from the post of captaincy. If KL Rahul was appointed as the captain of the team, it would have been the best option. At present, Akshar Patel will have to fulfill his responsibility well.