The news of his return was confirmed by DC captain Axar Patel during the coin toss
Former South Africa star Faf du Plessis will be making a return to the Delhi Capitals (DC) playing XI for the match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL 2025) tonight. Notably, the Proteas was absent from DC’s previous match against the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on April 5 due to illness.
The news of his return was confirmed by DC captain Axar Patel during the coin toss. Du Plessis will be replacing former CSK man Sameer Rizvi in the lineup.
Axar said, “Faf is fit, he’s in and (Sameer Rizvi) Rizzie is out. We’ve decided on our order and KL will bat in the middle-order.”
Delhi Capitals are the only team to remain unbeaten so far in the IPL 2025 and have won all their three games so far. The Proteas batter was part of the first two games. He made 18-ball 29 runs in DC’s opening fixture against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG).
In the second match against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), Faf returned with a half century off 27 balls.
With 79 runs in two games so far, Faf is DC’s second-highest run-scorer.
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Impact Subs: Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Dar Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh
Delhi Capitals: Faf du Plessis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, KL Rahul(w), Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel(c), Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Mohit Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar
Impact Subs: Abishek Porel, Darshan Nalkande, Karun Nair, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira
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