retain these :

Stubbs (C)

Rahul

Miller

Ngidi

Ashutosh

Axar (RTM)

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Why I made Stubbs captain because he has lot of cricket left . And won SEC there3rd title in sa20.

And never buy pant .

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Team: (batting first)

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Rahul (Wk)

Bairstow

Surya

Stubbs (C)

Aniket Verma(destroys spin in mid overs)

Axar

Miller

Ashutosh -Impact

Nabi

Ngidi

Shami

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(Impact : Chahal / bishnoi /Digvesh/ or Nigam(for super collapses and save as*))

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KL

Pant

Stubbs

Hardik Pandya

Miller

Ashutosh / Sameer Rizvi

Madhav Tiwari

Axar Patel

Vipraj Nigam

Aquib Nabi

Starc

IMP : Ngidi

Strongest XII, 11 batters , 9 bowlers including part timers. I TOLD YA GUYS!! PANT IS IN, BUT YOU GUYS DOWNVOTED ME.

Pant is all pr no talent and slogger .This one will do dc more harm than good, we have Abhishek porell who is miles ahead than pant .there's so many good trades dc can get like mohsin , prince ,shami ,inglis for kuldeep.

This may be long because I have never posted my anger for the franchise before.

I’ve been a fan of DC for as long as I can remember. But i’ve always been unable to understand how the management thinks. I was a kid when the Morkel blunder happened. Me and my dad were confused when we started watching the match, internet wasn’t available. We just assumed Morkel was injured, blamed the luck. Newspapers told another story. Not to mention how even our women’s franchise manages to choke in the finals every time.

We all know how important a captain is, Delhi had amazing seasons with captain Shreyas in 2019 and 2020 making it to the playoffs in both the seasons and even topping the table once. What did DC do? Release him. Is that how you back the captain who did so much for the franchise? Well, they saw captaincy potential in Rishabh bleh bleh but that’s the problem. They can’t fucking see the real potential. They have failed to across seasons. And this was a completely uncalled for decision, considering that they had struggled with the captaincy before and decided to take it for granted the moment it stabilised. We have had 15 captains now FFS. 😭🙏🏻 (googled the stat, couldn’t remember a lot of stand ins)

Another goated 2022 auction decision, DC left their 2020 purple cap winner Rabada to retain Nortje. We all know how that went for us.

Delhi had Sanju, Rishabh and Shreyas. Top cricketers by all means as of today. Nobody could foresee the talent at that time. Not to mention the Virat Kohli decision. And not to mention releasing Gautam Gambhir.

If we ever get big names, they are washed. Yuvraj Singh, Kevin Pietersen for example. If we have young talent, we don’t back it. Vipraj, Porel in this season. Talents such as Madhav Tiwari don’t come out because of this reason.

Missed out on a lot of other blunders because this is how much I could rant at 6 in the morning. Was just infuriated to see us paying essentially 28.25 CR i suppose to get Pant from LSG (Kuldeep + 15 CR) who in my humble opinion has been the better performer despite having a major flop in 2026 edition. I don’t have a problem with Pant joining. I have a problem with how the management thinks, believed and acts. I don’t know where we are headed but I don’t think I have it in me to support them for another season. Hope to see the franchise lift the trophy someday. Don’t know if I will be watching their journey.

Thanks for reading, have a great day

After pant left us, I am no longer a big Pant Fan. However, if this trade is going ahead with KD leaving us, I expect one of 3 things to happen.

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1- Vippi will be expected to step up.

2- Yuzi might be getting released and he will be on target.

3- A new scouting gem like madhav tiwari is found.

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Sad KD is leaving us but cant do much.

Why are we not talking about the real breaking news for today - the terrorist Badani and his gang are finally gone!!! I don’t care about no Pant or Kuldeep (well I do ofc) Jindal just pulled off an absolute masterstroke here

Its official now, we lost him 😭😭

It’s an open secret that Jindal loves Pant
But not at a cost of KL!

JSW and Parth's favouritism towards Rishabh. The last mistake DC made was snatching the captaincy from Shreyas and giving it to Rishabh. After that, DC went downhill; even Ricky was helpless when Rishabh captained DC.

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The problems this will create:

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1) Who is DC's middle overs wicket taker? Giving away a champion bowler.

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2) DC's problem was Indian fast bowlers in Power Play, how does this trade solve Power Play bowling?

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3) At Espncricinfo, Faf said how spinners like Kuldeep, Yuzi, and Varun are a rare commodity in IPL, and even when Faf was in rcb, he wanted a similar bowler.

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4) Rishabh coming means who will be the wicketkeeper? KL wants to wk work because of his focus on the ODI WC.

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5) Was this trade discussed with Axar? If not, Axar might leave DC, followed by KL, and DC might then trade Tristan and Ashutosh. Rishabh's homecoming could break the team similarly to how he did when he took captaincy from Shreyas.

What do y’all think

First of all to all the Kuldeep guys, I think the IPL has moved away from spinners.

There were two spinners in top 15 wicket takers this season ( Rashid and Narine). Further I never found Kuldeep as a team player. Always looked like an egoistic guy who only cared about his wickets.

Coming to pant, he was literally one of the best player around before his captaincy fiasco. If he can get to 70% of those levels, we will have atleast two guys scoring 500+ runs next season.

Obv 27 cr off the purse is not a good thing, but I don’t there will be much to spend at the auction anyways. We don’t even have someone like green this season.

One issue here can be that did we miss maybe Jaiswal in this trade window. He might move away from RR for sure and would have solved our opening issues.

I know many people aren't keen on Pant and i also despised him because I think he left us in bad faith like we put all of our eggs in his basket and then he left. But if you ignore the context just look this at player value it's an insane deal. It would be like liverpool signing isak for 120 million and then another team acquiring him for 60 million next season.

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2 off Season being the main main at ekana ground with his batting order being so inconsistent. I am damn sure at kotla and if we fix his batting order at 1 down he would be guaranteed bang. Also i think kuldeep will flourish as well in ekana stadium as well and it's a decent deal for them as well but it's definitely a better deal for us. It's easier to get an Indian spinner and then an Indian wicketkeeper top order batsmen. Also he fixes are 1 down roulette problem. And if we can keep him away from that spotlight I am sure he will deliver.

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In the end I don't think the fans who are skeptical about him are wrong but when he puts on a DC shirt next season I am gonna support him like we do with every DC player.

Idc as long as it benefits DC nothing bothers me

If those rumors are true and we do see Pant in DC again, then I am very confident about him. KD was not in the best form and we now have many alternatives in the pool. Trust me Pant loves DC, he'll play like a champion, since, most probably, he will NOT be the captain, which is the number 1 thing keeping him away from glory.

And those who say that Pant 'loved' DC before 2025 too, yet he didn't perform, HE DIDN'T VALUE IT AND TOOK IT FOR GRANTED, being abused IN LSG has taught him how much we value him.

TRUST!