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After the GMR-run team opted to release the India's star wicket-keeper batter, Rishabh Pant left the Delhi Capitals and would be the most sought-after player in the IPL auction pool. Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Abhishek Porel, and Tristan Stubbs are the four DC players that were kept on.
Pant will leave the team he played for eight years and captained for three of those seasons due to tense discussions that had been going on for the past month and a convoluted management structure.
"Once GMR appointed Venugopal Rao as Director of Cricket and Hemang Badani as head coach, the writing was on the cards. GMR is also in talks with Shreyas Iyer, under whom the team played its only final in 2020. Iyer is not going to play for KKR," a source tracking DC's development told PTI on the condition of anonymity on Wednesday.
At the moment, each co-owner has two years to lead the team under the DC management structure.
"This is a complicated structure and it would always be counter-productive for a team. So once management came in hands of GMR, they overhauled it completely," the source said.
It is believed that after the administration, lead by Kiran Grandhi, chose to fire Pant, there was no way to save the situation because those close to the cricket player attested that he was "hurt" by the development. The Punjab Kings and Lucknow Super Giants could bid a lot of money for Pant at the IPL auctions.
