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Delhi-based Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise set to part ways with their director of cricket Sourav Ganguly ahead of the upcoming mega auction 2025. As per TOI, Former India cricketer Venugopal Rao will replace him as Director of Cricket and it's understood that Ganguly will be the "Women's Director of Cricket".
Former BCCI president Ganguly joined the Delhi Capitals after his tenure with the Indian Cricket Board in 2019
"Sourav Ganguly will no longer be participating in working and functioning of the Delhi Capitals in the IPL.
You can say he will be the Women's Director of Cricket and will mostly be overseeing the Women's Premier League team and the Pretoria Capitals in SA20," says a source tracking developments quoted TOI.
Venugopal's former India teammate Hemang Badani will be the new head coach of the franchise. According to a report in Cricbuzz on Wednesday (October 16), DC’s search for new support staff is over, and Badani will replace Ricky Ponting as head coach.
“Both Venugopal and Badani have been involved with the franchise’s subsidiaries elsewhere—mainly in the ILT20 in the UAE and Major League Cricket (MLC) in the US. Incidentally, both those sides—Dubai Capitals and Seattle Orcas—are owned by Delhi Capitals co-owner Kiran Kumar Grandhi of the GMR Group. The JSW group is the other co-owner of the Delhi side, and the GMR group currently holds the reins of the franchise management that alternates between the partners every two years.”
IPL 2025 mega auction
The mega auction for the upcoming Indian Premier League is set to take place in Dubai in November 30.
"Nothing has been finalised on the date yet but the last week of the month has been identified as the ideal window. The discussions are underway on the venue and while many options are being discussed, there is a possibility of the Indian cricket board hosting it in Dubai" quoted TOI
DC have finalised their three retentions ahead of the upcoming season of the cash-rich league. The franchise confirmed Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav and the team is likely to exercise the Right-to-Match (RTM) card option to buy back their other players.
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