Delhi Capitals made a series of calculated moves at the IPL 2026 auction in Abu Dhabi, focusing on strengthening both their Indian core and overseas depth. While the franchise did not engage in headline-grabbing bidding wars, it quietly assembled a balanced squad aimed at covering key gaps from previous seasons.<\/p>\n
The standout acquisition for DC was Jammu & Kashmir pacer Auqib Nabi Dar<\/strong>, who emerged as the biggest buy of the night for the franchise at Rs 8.40 crore<\/strong>. The Capitals also invested heavily in overseas reinforcements, bringing in aggressive openers Ben Duckett<\/strong> and Pathum Nissanka<\/strong>, experienced middle-order batter David Miller<\/strong>, and pace options Lungi Ngidi<\/strong> and Kyle Jamieson<\/strong> to add variety and firepower.<\/p>\n Wicketkeepers:<\/strong> Batters:<\/strong> All-rounders:<\/strong> Fast bowlers:<\/strong> Spinners:<\/strong> Abishek Porel, Ben Duckett, Nitish Rana, KL Rahul, Axar Patel, Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Auqib Nabi Dar, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav Axar Patel (c), KL Rahul, Abishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, Karun Nair, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurana Vijay, Ajay Mandal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T. Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera, Nitish Rana, Auqib Nabi Dar, Pathum Nissanka, Ben Duckett, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Sahil Parakh, Prithvi Shaw, Kyle Jamieson.<\/p>\n With a strong leadership group, a flexible batting order, and an experienced bowling attack led by Starc and Kuldeep, Delhi Capitals appear well-equipped to mount a serious challenge in IPL 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Delhi Capitals made a series of calculated moves at the IPL 2026 auction in Abu Dhabi, focusing on strengthening both\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":39668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22941","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=22941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}DC IPL 2026 squad composition<\/h3>\n
\nKL Rahul, Abishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs<\/p>\n
\nBen Duckett, Pathum Nissanka, David Miller, Karun Nair, Prithvi Shaw, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Sahil Parakh<\/p>\n
\nAxar Patel, Vipraj Nigam, Nitish Rana, Auqib Nabi Dar, Madhav Tiwari, Ajay Mandal<\/p>\n
\nMitchell Starc, T. Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera, Lungi Ngidi, Kyle Jamieson<\/p>\n
\nKuldeep Yadav, Tripurana Vijay<\/p>\nDC probable playing XI \u2013 IPL 2026<\/h3>\n
\nImpact Player:<\/strong> Dushmantha Chameera \/ Lungi Ngidi<\/p>\nDC full squad for IPL 2026<\/h3>\n