Hemang Badani can be the head coach of Delhi Capitals in IPL 2025; Know 5 players the franchise can retain

Hemang Badani, former India batsman is leading the race to become the head coach of Delhi Capitals in the IPL. Munaf Patel, the former fast bowler for India, may be named the team's bowling coach simultaneously. Ricky Ponting, the head coach of the Delhi Capitals for six years, just parted ways the team. 

While Badani has experience working with Brian Lara at Sunrisers Hyderabad, this will be a significant chance for him if he is given this opportunity. According to PTI, Delhi Capitals management is looking for a quality domestic coach and the names of Hemang and Munaf have come up. A final decision hasn't been taken as yet but Munaf could be the bowling coach.

The Tamil Nadu batsman Hemang Badani played four Tests and 40 ODIs between 2001-2004, with an ODI century against Australia in the 2001 bilateral series being his career highlight. He would be expected to lead Delhi to its first-ever IPL title, for which the team has been waiting since its inception into the league in 2008.

Delhi have reached the finals once in 2020 against Mumbai Indians, where they lost the final. While Badani's candidature is coming up as a head coach, it could be a case of change in management for the next two years, with one of the co-owners being GMR and the other one JSW running the management. This presupposes that both the co-owners have agreed on micro-managing the team for two years each.

The Delhi Capitals are expected, along with the majority of other teams, to hold onto three players until the next big auction. The club may choose to keep left-arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav (Rs 11 crore), skipper Rishabh Pant (Rs 18 crore), and Axar Patel (Rs 14 crore). Using the Right to Match card, it may also re-induct South African batsman Tristan Stubbs and Australian batter Jack Fraser McGurk, who were the highlights of the last IPL season.