Delhi Capitals are entering IPL 2026 with a clear plan. After finishing 5th in 2025 IPL, they want to rebuild they team strongly. Under Axar Patel captaincy, they began well last season but couldn’t keep the momentum at 2nd half of the season. Now take a look at the full list of their retained and released players.
Retained players –
Batmen’s – Nitish Rana (Traded-In), Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Madhav Tiwari
All-Rounder – Axar Patel (Captain & All-Rounder), Ajay Mandal & Tripurana Vijay
Wicket keeper – Batter – KL Rahul, Tristan Stubbs, Abishek Porel
Bowler’s – Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera, T Natarajan.
Released players –
Batmen’s – Faf du Plessis, Jake Fraser-McGurk,
All-Rounder’s – Sediqullah Atal, Manvanth Kumar, Darshan Nalkande
Wicket keeper – Batter – Donovan Ferreira
Bowler’s – Mohit Sharma
Remaining purse: ₹21.8 crore
Remaining slots: 8 slots (including 5 overseas players)