IPL 2025: Season 18 of the Indian Premier League i.e. IPL 2025 will start between March or April next year. But preparations for this have already started. Its auction is being held on 24-25 November and during this auction, two of the best teams of IPL have made history by making a big trade.
During the IPL 2025 auction, Lucknow Super Giants have included the captain of Delhi Capitals in their team. While Delhi has included the captain of Lucknow in their team. So let’s know what the whole matter is.
Both teams exchanged captains
Let us tell you that the auction of IPL 2025 is going on at this time and during this auction, Delhi Capital has included former Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul in its team by bidding Rs 14 crore. At the same time, Lucknow Super Giants have included Rishabh Pant in their team by placing a historic bid of Rs 27 crore. In this way, both the teams have exchanged their captains.
However, this is not actually a trade, rather both the teams have included both the players in their team by bidding. According to the current information, these two players can also be seen leading these two teams in the next season.
These two players can be the captain
Actually, Rishabh Pant is the biggest face in the Lucknow Supergiants team at the moment. In such a situation, he can take the responsibility of leading this team. At the same time, there is no bigger face than KL Rahul in the Delhi Capitals team at present. In such a situation, the Delhi management can also hand over the responsibility of captaincy to him.
However, till both these teams officially announce this, it would be too early to say anything, because there is still at least 4-5 months left for the start of IPL season 18.
Captaincy record of Rishabh and Rahul
It is known that KL Rahul has captained in 64 IPL matches so far. During this time, he has won 31 matches and lost 31 matches. During this time two matches were tied. His winning percentage is 48.43. Rishabh Pant has captained in 43 matches and during this time he has won 23 matches and lost 19. One match under his captaincy was tied. His winning percentage is 53.48.
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