DPL 2025: Harshit Rana Named Captain Of North Delhi Strikers

Indian pacer Harshit Rana has been named the captain of North Delhi Strikers for the upcoming Delhi Premier League 2025 season. The season kicks off from September 8, 2025, with all the matches scheduled to be played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.

A total of six teams will be playing in the tournament, namely South Delhi Superstarz, Purani Delhi 6, North Delhi Strikers, East Delhi Riders, North Delhi Strikers and Central Delhi Kings.

Harshit Rana was previously retained by his side and was in the list of marquee players for the upcoming season. He was retained by his franchise for Rs 10 lakhs. The Central Delhi Kings retained Simrajeet Singh for 34 lakhs, the most for any of the marquee players. Other marquee players in the list are Nitish Rana, Digvesh Rathi, Navdeep Saini, Ishant Sharma, amongst others.

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Captaincy Stint For Harshit Rans In DPL 2025

The auction for the tournament was held earlier this month. The auction for the men’s tournament was held on July 6 and the women’s tournament was held on July 7. Meanwhile, the captaincy for Harshit Rana with his franchise team comes at a point where he missed out on an opportunity to play Test cricket for India in the ongoing series against England.

Harshit was a part of the India A side that played against England Lions and the senior Indian men’s team before the Test series started. However, with the likes of Arshdeep Singh and Akash Deep getting injured, the selectors decided to include Anshul Kamboj ahead of Rana. In fact, the Delhi pacer was sent back after the A series ended.

Former Indian batter Aakash Chopra has questioned Kamboj’s selection ahead of Rana, given that the selectors were looking to be persistent with the pacers who played the initial games.

“It’s very interesting. There was a lot of chatter about Anshul Kamboj. He did well for India A as well, but when there was an opportunity earlier, the team management chose Harshit Rana first. Anshul was sent back home, and now we are learning about his name again,” Aakash said on his YouTube channel.

“Harshit Rana is not there. Now you have to wonder, what actually goes on? How do you determine who to keep and who to let go of? If you talk about performances for India A, Anshul’s performance was better, but you kept Harshit Rana looking at continuity,” he added.

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