Veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has picked the Delhi Capitals’ (DC) bowling as their biggest strength heading into IPL 2025. He also added that the franchise has assembled the best death-bowling combination if not the best attack before the tournament. DC retained two bowlers — Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav — heading into the recent auction. Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Darshan Nalkande, and Dushmantha Chameera were their bowling acquisitions at the auction.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “They have probably assembled the best bowling of this tournament. You will find Gujarat’s bowling very good. If you leave aside one spinner, Mumbai has one of the best bowling attacks. So let’s settle on the fact that they (DC) have the best death-bowling attack.”
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“No one has better bowlers for overs 15 to 20. If you check T Natarajan’s numbers and compare them with all other Indian players, you will find that he is very, very good, and the last year was also good. Mukesh Kumar’s stature has grown a lot. He has done death bowling for this franchise and done very well. They have bought Mitchell Starc, and that turns out to be a steal. He has taken a 50 percent pay cut. He had to come into the big auction this time. As soon as you come in the big auction, your price is halved. So he had to take a pay cut but they got Mitchell Starc. They also have Mohit Sharma,” Chopra again shared.
In the same video, Aakash Chopra shared that the Delhi Capitals’ have the best spin-bowling attack heading into IPL 2025 as well.
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“Delhi have the best spin bowling of this tournament, and interestingly enough, they didn’t need the auction for that because they have Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav. No team has eight overs of this kind of spin, and that is why both of them were retained. They were given a lot of money and asked to stay. On the small ground and flat pitch in Delhi, Arun Jaitley Stadium, a lot of sixes are hit. You get exposed if you don’t have quality there. Quality is the only thing that separates you from the others, and the two spinners here are of absolute gold-dust quality,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
