Axar Patel-led Delhi Capitals (DC) will kick off their IPL 2025 campaign against Rishabh Pant’s Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) on March 24 (Monday) at the Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. DC will play their first home matches in Visakhapatnam before shifting to their match venue in Delhi.
Axar Patel has been appointed Delhi Capitals’ captain for IPL 2025. Having been with the franchise seeing that 2019, he was their top retention select for Rs 16.50 crore in advance of the mega auction final November. Axar also serves as Team India’s vice-captain in the T20I layout. With Rishabh Pant’s departure from DC before the mega auction sale, Axar emerged as the team’s most experienced players, having performed 82 matches for the franchise over six seasons.
Delhi Capitals Squad for IPL 2025
The DC squad playing in IPL consists KL Rahul, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Karun Nair, Abhishek Porel, Tristian Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natrajan, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Mukesh Kumar, Darshan Nalkande, Vipraj Nigam, Dushmanta Chameera, Donovan Ferreira, Ajay Mandal, Manvanth Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari.
DC IPL Full Schedule
| No. | Date | Day | Time | Opposition | Venue |
| 1 | Mar 24 | Monday | 7:30 PM | Lucknow Super Giants | Visakhapatnam |
| 2 | Mar 30 | Sunday | 3:30 PM | Sunrisers Hyderabad | Visakhapatnam |
| 3 | Apr 5 | Saturday | 3:30 PM | Chennai Super Kings | Chennai |
| 4 | Apr 10 | Thursday | 7:30 PM | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | Bengaluru |
| 5 | Apr 13 | Sunday | 7:30 PM | Mumbai Indians | Delhi |
| 6 | Apr 16 | Wednesday | 7:30 PM | Rajasthan Royals | Delhi |
| 7 | Apr 19 | Saturday | 3:30 PM | Gujarat Titans | Ahmedabad |
| 8 | Apr 22 | Tuesday | 7:30 PM | Lucknow Super Giants | Lucknow |
| 9 | Apr 27 | Sunday | 7:30 PM | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | Delhi |
| 10 | Apr 29 | Tuesday | 7:30 PM | Kolkata Knight Riders | Delhi |
| 11 | May 5 | Monday | 7:30 PM | Sunrisers Hyderabad | Hyderabad |
| 12 | May 8 | Thursday | 7:30 PM | Punjab Kings | Dharamsala |
| 13 | May 11 | Sunday | 7:30 PM | Gujarat Titans | Delhi |
| 14 | May 15 | Thursday | 7:30 PM | Mumbai Indians | Mumbai |
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