{"id":22038,"date":"2025-03-29T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=582420"},"modified":"2025-03-29T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:30:51","slug":"watch-delhi-capitals-welcome-kl-rahul-in-srk-style-bollywood-entry-to-debut-for-franchise-on-march-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/watch-delhi-capitals-welcome-kl-rahul-in-srk-style-bollywood-entry-to-debut-for-franchise-on-march-30\/","title":{"rendered":"[WATCH] Delhi Capitals welcome KL Rahul in SRK style Bollywood entry; to debut for franchise on March 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"515\">India batter KL Rahul has officially joined the Delhi Capitals (DC) squad ahead of their high-voltage IPL 2025 clash against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Sunday, March 30. Rahul was away from the team following the birth of his first child with wife Athiya Shetty on March 24 and had missed DC\u2019s previous match against LSG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"689\">Rahul was roped in by DC during the IPL 2025 mega auction for Rs 14 crore after being released by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), where he previously served as captain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"691\" data-end=\"1039\">To welcome the new signing, DC released a special video on March 29 across their social media platforms. The emotional montage featured passionate Delhi fans presenting Rahul with the team cap and bat before draping him in the franchise\u2019s flag. The video ended with the cricketer saying, <em data-start=\"979\" data-end=\"991\">\u201cI\u2019m home\u201d<\/em>\u2014a nod to his fresh beginning with the Capitals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You're loved. You're ours. You're home. \ud83e\udd79<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Dilli, KLR \ud83d\udc99\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qUBPHAYUyU\">pic.twitter.com\/qUBPHAYUyU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DelhiCapitals\/status\/1905851253831422402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1041\" data-end=\"1082\">Speaking after the auction, Rahul said,<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"1083\" data-end=\"1306\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1306\">\u201cThis is a new experience for me\u2014joining my fourth or fifth IPL franchise. It\u2019s both exciting and nerve-wracking\u2026 But looking at our squad and how the management has built this team, we seem to have most areas covered.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1308\" data-end=\"1503\">He also praised the mix of youth and experience within the side, highlighting players like Mitchell Starc, Axar Patel, and Kuldeep Yadav, with whom he has previously shared the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1505\" data-end=\"1652\">KL Rahul is likely to feature in the playing XI against SRH in Vizag, possibly taking up a new role in the middle order for DC this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India batter KL Rahul has officially joined the Delhi Capitals (DC) squad ahead of their high-voltage IPL 2025 clash against\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3810,608],"class_list":["post-22038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ipl-2025","tag-kl-rahul"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}