“One prediction is that Delhi Capitals goes to win it this time. We’re going to be third time fortunate,” mentioned a smiling Arundhati Reddy, a day earlier than her workforce’s Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) 2025 opener towards Mumbai Indians. DC skipper Meg Lanning would hope her pacer’s phrases come true come March 15.
Within the final two seasons, the Capitals have fallen quick within the summit conflict: first towards Mumbai Indians after which Royal Challengers Bengaluru. The aspect comes into the event’s third version with a well-balanced squad, not fiddled with an excessive amount of, and hoping to go all the best way this time.
“Clearly, we’ve had two good seasons with out ending it in the best way we might have appreciated to. The important thing for us is to take care of what we’ve been doing properly. I feel we have now been taking part in some actually good cricket and doing plenty of issues proper. It’s nearly making just a few adjustments right here and there which is able to hopefully permit us to take the subsequent step,” Lanning instructed reporters within the lead-up to the season.
DC has gamechangers in each its batting and bowling division.
Other than main the aspect, Lanning can be the present highest run-scorer within the WPL with 676 runs. And giving her firm on the prime of the aspect’s batting order is India worldwide Shafali Verma.
Shafali, regardless of not being in India’s squad through the not too long ago held bilateral sequence towards West Indies and Eire, has been in good kind within the home circuit. She bagged the ‘Participant of the Match’ award on the Senior Ladies’s ODI Challenger Trophy during which she amassed 414 runs in 5 matches in December.
Nevertheless, DC’s trump card lies in its bountiful tempo battery. With names like Shikha Pandey, Marizanne Kapp, Arundhati, Titas Sadhu, and Annabel Sutherland, the aspect received’t be missing in pace with the ball. Even when the pitch calls for spinners – just like the black soil observe on the Kotambi Stadium the place the primary leg of the WPL 2025 is being held – the likes of Radha Yadav and Jess Jonassen can spin an internet across the batters.
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With an intact core from the final season, the Capitals, no less than on paper, don’t have a weak spot standing out like a sore thumb.
DC additionally has the choice of fielding an additional abroad participant after it roped in Scotland’s Sarah Bryce. This additionally makes the wicketkeeper spot a wide selection headache for coach Jonathan Batty. “Taniya (Bhatia) has in all probability been the very best wicketkeeper of the event within the final two years. I’ve been actually impressed together with her glove work. Our job as a workforce is to continue to grow. It’s open for the time being. Choice is all the time within the gamers’ arms. It’s good that there’s competitors for Taniya for that spot.”
DC has evidently invested in youth, having purchased the newest U-19 Ladies’s T20 World Cup stars – Nandini Kashyap and Niki Prasad. Nevertheless, it stays to be seen when the 2 children shall be given a look-in.
Delhi Capitals Squad
Retained gamers: Alice Capsey, Arundhati Reddy, Jemimah Rodrigues, Jess Jonassen, Marizanne Kapp, Meg Lanning (c), Minnu Mani, Radha Yadav, Shafali Verma, Shikha Pandey, Sneha Deepthi, Taniyaa Bhatia, Titas Sadhu, Annabel Sutherland
Public sale buys: Nandini Kashyap, N Charani, Sarah Bryce, Niki Prasad