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The highly-anticipated Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 is all set to get underway after a week’s break, from Saturday, May 17. The tournament came to an abrupt halt after hightened tensions between India and Pakistan earlier at the start of the month following the Pahalgam terror attack. Moreover, the match between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals was also called off due to security concerns in Dharamsala, following India’s Operation Sindoor.
However, the situation has now come under control, the tournament will resume, with the final set to be played on Tuesday, June 3. But ahead of the resumption, with teams fighting for a spot in the top four, reports have revealed that wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul could open for Delhi Capitals (DC) in the remaining matches.
KL Rahul to open for DC in remainder of IPL 2025: Reports
According to reports citing The Times of India (TOI), DC are likely to tweak their batting order for the remaining matches and KL Rahul could be back in the opening slot. DC will hope to get their campaign back on track and in order to put things right, they would look to promote KL Rahul at the top of the order. Moreover, the side has seen some forced changes due to inconsistency of Jake Fraser-McGurk and injury to Faf du Plessis, it could once again see changes with a few players' unavailability and other reasons.
It is to be noted that in the ten matches KL has played for DC, he has batted at number three on two occasions, whereas he has opened only once. He has played remaining matches while batting at number four. In ten matches, KL Rahul has amassed 381 runs at an average of 47.63, strike at the rate of 142.16.
Delhi Capitals’ updated squad for IPL 2025
Faf du Plessis, KL Rahul, Mustafizur Rahman, Sediqullah Atal, Karun Nair, Abhishek Porel, Tristian Stubbs (only until the league stage), Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natrajan, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Darshan Nalkande, Vipraj Nigam, Dushmantha Chameera, Donovan Ferreira, Ajay Mandal, Manvanth Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari
