Axar Patel Delhi Capitals Captain 2025: On March 14, Holi, Delhi Capitals appointed Axar Patel as their new captain (Delhi Capitals Captain 2025). Recently, there were speculations of making either KL Rahul or Axar Patel the captain, but the DC franchise has played a big game and handed over the command of the team to Axar Patel (Axar Patel Captain). Here let us understand in 3 points why Patel can prove to be a better captain than Rahul?

1. Axar Patel has been associated with the Delhi team for a long time, he understands the team better

Axar Patel is one of the oldest players of Delhi Capitals in the current squad. He has been playing for this team since 2019 and understands the team well. Players like Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar and Abhishek Porel have been playing with him for many years in this team, in clear words, Axar Patel has a better understanding of this team than KL Rahul and he will not have much difficulty in coordinating with the management.

2. Axar Patel is better as per the need of the squad!

If we look at the 2025 squad of Delhi Capitals, it has players like Jake Fraser McGurk, Tristan Stubbs, Faf du Plessis, Mitchell Starc and Ashutosh Sharma, who like to play aggressive cricket. On one side there is KL Rahul, who is known for his patient and calm nature, in such a situation the question arises whether Rahul would have been able to lead Delhi's aggressive line-up with his calm captaincy? Maybe not, it is possible that Axar Patel has been selected to take the team forward with an aggressive approach.

3. Delhi needs a new start

Axar Patel may not have experience of captaincy (Delhi Capitals Captain), but he will try to lead the team on the basis of experience. On the other hand, KL Rahul has experience of captaincy, but he could not make LSG play a single final in 3 seasons under his captaincy. In such a situation, not only DC but any team would hesitate in giving captaincy to Rahul.