DC Team Profile 2022: Check TATA IPL 2022 Delhi Capitals Players List, Stats, Records, Prices

DC Team Profile 2022: The Delhi Capital beat Mumbai Indians by 4 wickets in their first IPL 2022 match at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.  The Delhi Capitals pulled off the win despite missing some of their biggest players including David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Anrich Nortje and Lungi Ngidi. 

Prithvi Shaw set the Delhi Capitals off to a great start with his 38 off 24 balls, while Lalit Yadav and Axar Patel stayed on to finish off the game. Lalit Yadav was the top scorer for Delhi Capitals with his 48 off 48 balls. Kuldeep Yadav was adjudged Player Of The Match fortaking 3 wickets and giving away just 18 runs.

Delhi Capitals with a whole new team will now be vying to win their first IPL trophy. The franchise now boasts of star players including David Warner, Shardul Thakur, Mitchell Marsh and Lungi Ngidi. Delhi Capitals Squad 2022 also includes U-19 World Cup Winning captain Yash Dhull and U-19 spin king Vicky Otswal. 

Led by new captain Rishabh Pant, Delhi Capitals will now face Gujarat Titans in their next IPL 2022 match at 7.30 pm on April 2, 2022 at MCA stadium.

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DC Squad 2022: Prithvi Shaw, Tim Seifert, Srikar Bharat, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Rovman Powell, Sarfaraz Khan, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Khaleel Ahmed, Kuldeep Yadav, Chetan Sakariya, Mandeep Singh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Lalit Yadav, Ashwin Hebbar, Praveen Dubey, Ripal Patel, Yash Dhull, Vicky Ostwal

Delhi Capitals Team Player List 2022 with Profiles - Check Matches Played, Runs, Wickets

Delhi Capitals had retained four players - Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Axar Patel and Anrich Nortje in the IPL 2021 Player Retentions and let go former skipper Shreyas Iyer, who is now the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders. 

Delhi Capitals Captain

Rishabh Pant had taken over as the captain of Delhi Capitals last year when Shreyas Iyer had got injured during the first leg of the IPL 2021 season. Rishabh Pant will now lead the team as a full-time captain as Shreyas Iyer was released from the team in the IPL 2022 Mega auction. Delhi Capitals Coach Ricky Ponting has been a great supporter of Rishabh Pant and has been grooming him for his new role. 

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DC Strength and Weakness

Delhi Capitals Strength

1. Explosive Opening Duo 

The Delhi Capitals has one of the best batting opening combination of explosive David Warner and Prithvi Shaw.

2. Strong top-order

DC also has one of the best batting line-up with a strong top order with an amazing opening combination of Warner and Shaw supported by Rishabh Pant, Yash Dhull, Mitchell Marsh and Rovman Powell.

3. Best Bowling

The Delhi Capitals has a great bowling line-up as well with the likes of Axar Patel,Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi, Shardul Thakur.

Delhi Capitals Weakness

1. Lack of Spinners

One of the key weak link in the Delhi Capitals line up is lack of spinners though they do have young spin king Vicky Otswal. Kuldeep Yadav is also there but is not very reliable. 

2. Non-availability of foreign players

Both David Warner and Mitchell Marsh will not be available for atleast the first five games due to Australia's ongoing series against Pakistan. 

Delhi Capitals Past Team Records

Background

Delhi Capitals has had a great run in the previous editions of the league. It was the table topper in the IPL 2021 Points Table but lost against Kolkata Knight Riders by 3 wickets in Qualifiers 2 and ended up being the second runner up. It was also the runners up in IPL 2020 edition, only to lose against Mumbai Indians in the final by 5 wickets.