Why Are Axar Patel And Yuzvendra Chahal Not Playing Today's PBKS Vs DC Match?
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Delhi Capitals skipper Axar Patel misses his second consecutive IPL 2025 match due to illness, with Faf du Plessis captaining against Punjab Kings.
Delhi Capitals (DC) skipper Axar Patel is missing a second consecutive match in IPL 2025, with Faf du Plessis captaining the team against Punjab Kings (PBKS) at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Saturday (May 24).
Axar has been said to be dealing with illness in the last few days and was also unavailable from the team's match against the Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium on May 21. On the eve of the match, assistant coach Matthew Mott had said he didn't know whether Axar would be available to play but mentioned that the all-rounder had not trained.
'The honest answer is I don't fully know," Mott told the media. 'He's not training today. But, we'll find out when we get back there today. Obviously, he wasn't well the other day. He's had a pretty rugged time with a few different little niggle and injuries. I'm sure he's motivated to come out and play, but we'll probably know a little bit more tonight when we go back and see the medical stuff."
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After the loss against MI, which ended DC's hopes of qualifying for the playoffs, du Plessis emphasised that Axar had been 'very, very sick'. He also rued his absence in a match where MI's left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner bowled a winning spell of 3/11.
'Yeah, I think especially [missed] Axar on a wicket like that," du Plessis said after the match. 'If you look at the way that Mitch Santner bowled, they're very similar bowlers. To bowl four overs, I think [Santner] only went for ten runs. Axar is that kind of class bowler, international, proven left-arm spinner that on a wicket like that, he would love to bowl in it. But unfortunately, he was very, very sick the last two days."
In Axar's absence, Kuldeep Yadav and all-rounder Vipraj Nigam will have to shoulder the responsibility of spin.
Meanwhile, PBKS are also missing leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal. Shreyas Iyer didn't mention any reason for his absence during the toss. The same goes for DC's Abhishek Porel.
Delhi Capitals (Playing 11): Faf du Plessis (C), Sediqullah Atal, Karun Nair, Sameer Rizvi, Tristan Stubbs (WK), Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mustafizur Rahman and Mukesh Kumar
Impact Subs: KL Rahul, Manvanth Kumar, Tripurna Vijay, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Darshan Nalkande
Punjab Kings (Playing 11): Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Josh Inglis(w), Shreyas Iyer(c), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh
Impact Subs: Praveen Dubey, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Suryansh Shedge, Kyle Jamieson, Xavier Bartlett
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May 24, 2025, 19:28 IST
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