It is clear now, that DC franchise will certainly retain their IPL 2024 skipper Rishabh Pant for IPL 2025. On Wednesday, owner Parth Jindal minced no words and revealed that the star wicket-keeper would be back in team Blues, after making a comeback to competitive cricket this year.
DC to Retain Rishabh Pant for IPL 2025
In an interaction with IANS, he revealed, “Yes, we definitely have to retain. We have some very good players in our team. The rules have just come out, so after discussing with GMR and our director of cricket, Sourav Ganguly, decisions will be made. Rishabh Pant will definitely be retained.”
He did not stop there and opened up about the plans for other players as well. That included the likes of Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav and Abhishek Porel. “We also have Axar Patel, who is excellent, Criston Stubbs, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Kuldeep Yadav, Abishek Porel, Mukesh Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, all very good players in our team. We’ll see what happens in the auction. But first, as per the rule, we can retain six players. After discussions, we will proceed with the auction and see what happens…”