Delhi Capitals Rope In Kevin Pietersen As Mentor Forward Of IPL 2025

Former England captain Kevin Pietersen was on Thursday appointed mentor of Delhi Capitals forward of the upcoming IPL season. The 44-year-old thus returns to the aspect he captained in 2014. This marks Pietersen’s first teaching project within the IPL, the place he featured in as a participant from 2009 to 2016. “I’m so excited to come home to Delhi! I have the fondest memories of my time with Delhi. I love the city, I love the fans and I’ll do everything I can to support the franchise in our quest for the title in 2025,” wrote Pietersen on X.

A veteran of 200 T20s with 5,695 runs, Pietersen appeared in 36 IPL matches scoring 1001 runs throughout his stints with Delhi Capitals, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Sunrisers Hyderabad, and the Pune franchise.

At DC he’ll be part of Hemang Badani, who was named head coach in October final yr, assistant coach Matthew Mott, bowling coach Munaf Patel and director of cricket Venugopal Rao.

I’m so excited to return house to Delhi! I’ve the fondest reminiscences of my time with Delhi.

I like town, I like the followers and I’ll do all the things I can to assist the franchise in our quest for the title in 2025! https://t.co/ln2ldwKHAz

— Kevin Pietersen (@KP24) February 27, 2025

DC have by no means gained the IPL title, they reached the ultimate in 2020 the place they misplaced Mumbai Indians.

They completed sixth within the earlier version, following which they let go of their skipper Rishabh Pant. They retained Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs and Abishek Porel.

At the public sale final yr, DC went in with the most important purse and added KL Rahul, Harry Brook, Faf du Plessis and Mitchell Starc to their roster.

They have made main adjustments to their teaching workers forward of the brand new season.

They introduced in former India participant Badani as head coach rather than legendary Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting, whereas additionally changing Australia’s James Hopes with ex-India pacer and member of the 2011 World Cup-winning squad, Munaf, as their bowling coach.

Delhi Capitals will open their IPL marketing campaign in opposition to Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in Visakhapatnam on March 24.