Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel missed out on the match towards Punjab Kings within the ongoing IPL 2025 as a consequence of sickness. Meanwhile, Sediquallah Atal made his debut for Delhi and Punjab made two modifications to their taking part in XI.

Jaipur:

Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel missed the earlier recreation towards Mumbai Indians and the all-rounder will miss the ultimate league recreation towards Punjab Kings as nicely. In his absence, Faf du Plessis has been main the aspect, and within the earlier match, the previous South Africa worldwide talked about that Axar has been in poor health and that dominated him out of the match towards Punjab on the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur.

In his absence, Delhi added an extra batter within the taking part in XI. Karun Nair made his return to the taking part in XI whereas the Afghanistan worldwide Sediqulluah Atal has been handed his debut. The teenager changed Abishek Porel within the taking part in XI. Karun, however, began the season in an excellent trend however has did not stay as much as expectations in latest instances. However, given his good efficiency in home cricket, Karun has been referred to as as much as India squad for the upcoming England collection.

Delhi, within the meantime, received the toss and elected to bowl first towards Punjab. After the toss, Faf defined that the staff needs to complete the event on a excessive word and famous that they performed nicely towards Mumbai within the final match however misplaced focus ultimately.

“We will have a bowl. I think today it is 50-50. Just the make up of the side. We are playing an extra batter. It helps while chasing. It has been very frustrating. We started well. Then went on a roller coaster. We have played enough T20 cricket to understand. We played well in the last game for the first 17 overs. Then lost focus. We are playing for the fifth spot. We had our goals to get into top four,” Faf mentioned after the toss.

Teams:

Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Josh Inglis (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c),  Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh

Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Faf du Plessis (c), Sediqullah Atal, Karun Nair, Sameer Rizvi, Tristan Stubbs (wk), Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mustafizur Rahman, Mukesh Kumar