Kevin Pietersen joins Delhi Capitals as team mentor

DC, who have only ever reached the final of the IPL once in all these years finished sixth in IPL 2024 and went into the auction last year with the biggest purse among all the ten teams after letting go of most of their big-ticket players and retaining only Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs and Abishek Porel. They then added star players including KL Rahul, Harry Brook, Faf du Plessis and Mitchell Starc to their roster.