The Delhi Premier League T20 returns for a bigger and hopefully a better season in its second edition, starting Saturday, August 2. New Delhi Tigers and Outer Delhi Warriors, two new teams, have joined the tournament while getting two of the stars of the first edition as their star players in Himmat Singh, the DPL title-winning captain, and Priyansh Arya, the leading run-scorer from last year, respectively. Unfortunately, Rishabh Pant won't be available after his foot injury but some of the stars from last season return this season as bona fide IPL players and the expectations will be higher this time around.
Nitish Rana, the Delhi lad, returns to DDCA after moving over to UPCA last year and will lead the West Delhi Lions, and to give him company will be former India pacer, Ishant Sharma. Eight teams are divided into two groups each, playing three teams from their group twice and the four in the different group once. Four teams at the end of the league stage will make it to the playoffs, before fighting it out in the knockouts to get to the final on August 31. The women's tournament will take place from August 17.
When and where to watch DPL 2025 live on TV and OTT in India?
The second season of the Delhi Premier League will kick off at 7 PM IST on Saturday, August 2 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Since there is an opening ceremony scheduled for Saturday, only the first game will kick off at 8 PM IST. All 44 matches of the men's DPL 2025 will be live telecast on Star Sports 2 Hindi Channel and the live streaming of the tournament will be available on the JioHotstar app and website.
Squads
Central Delhi Kings: Jonty Sidhu (c), Simarjeet Singh, Yash Dhull, Pranshu Vijayran, Money Grewal, Aryan Rana, Aarnav Koul, Vivek Kumar Tiwari, Aditya Bhandari, Aaryavir Sehwag, Yugal Saini, Siddharth Joon, Gavnish Khurana, Jasvir Sehrawat, Sampooran Tripathi, Sumit Chhikara, Nikhil Malik, Harshit Sethi, Arun Pundir, Yamit Sehrawat, Tejas Baroka, Rishi Sharma
East Delhi Riders: Anuj Rawat (c), Navdeep Saini, Akhil Chaudhary, Mayank Rawat, Arpit Rana, Salil Malhotra, Rounak Waghela, Vansh Jetly, Yashwardhan Oberai, Sujal Singh, Hardik Sharma, Kavya Gupta, Rohan Rathi, Ashish Meena, Ajay Ahlawat, Kunal Sharma, Rohit Yadav, Mrinal Gulati, Yuvraaj Rathi, Shivam Kumar Tripathi, Vaibhav Baisla
South Delhi Superstarz: Ayush Badoni (c), Digvesh Rathi, Tejasvi, Kunwar Bidhuri, Sumit Mathur, Himanshu Chauhan, Anmol Sharma, Saksham Gahlot, Aman Bharti, Yatish Singh, Divansh Rawat, Sarthak Ray, Prikshit Sehrawat, Sumit Kumar, Aryaveer Kohli, Gulzar Sandhu, Adviteya Sinha, Rohan Rana, Sagar Tanwar, Manish Sehrawat, Ankur Kaushik, Vision Panchal, Abhishek Khandelwal
New Delhi Tigers: Himmat Singh (c), Prince Yadav, Hiten Dalal, Deepak Punia, Dhruv Kaushik, Vaibhav Rawal, Keshav Dalal, Aatrey Tripathi, Aayush Kumar, Rahul Dagar, Ruveer Kheterpal, Piyash Chhikara, Nitesh Sharma, Pratap Basista, Ajay Rana, Parikshit Singh Bhati, Pankaj Jaiswal, Aryan Dalal, Shivam Gupta, Pradyuman Sanan, Rahul Chaudhary, Varun Vanjani
North Delhi Strikers: Harshit Rana, Kuldip Yadav, Sarthak Ranjan, Vaibhav Kandpal, Pranav Rajvanshi, Gagan Vats, Yash Bhatia, Yash Dabas, Arnav Bugga, Yajas Sharma, Deepanshu Gulia, Deepak Khatri, Vikas Dixit, Samyak Jain, Siddhartha Solanki, Noor Ilahi, Arjun Rapria, Dhanya Nakra, Prabhjot Singh, Siddhant Bansal, Aryan Sejwal
Outer Delhi Warriors: Siddhant Sharma (c), Priyansh Arya, Suyash Sharma, Shivam Sharma, Sanat Snagwan, Harsh Tyagi, Dev Kashyap, Shaurya Malik, Keshav Dabas, Aman Choudhary, Karan Garg, Atulya Pandey, Mohit Panwar, Shreshth Yadav, Aarav Gautam, Kamal Bhairwa, Aadi Agarwal, Vivaan Jindal, Jitesh Singh, Ashwin Hooda, Anshuman Hooda, Aryan Dhupar, Varun Yadav, Anant S Sareen, Dhruv Singh
West Delhi Lions: Nitish Rana (c), Ayush Doseja, Ishant Sharma, Hritik Shokeen, Mayank Gusain, Shivank Vashisth, Ankit Rajesh Kumar, Laxman, Shubham Dubey, Krish Yadav, Manan Bhardwaj, Shantanu Yadav, Tishant Dabla, Vishal Abhua, Vikas Rana, Anirudh Chowdhary, Akshay Kapoor, Ravneet Tanwan, Naman Tiwari, Bhagwan Singh, Rishabh Rana, Kabir Sachdeva, Vedant Sehwag
Purani Dilli 6: Vansh Bedi (c), Lalit Yadav, Dev Lakra, Aayush Singh, Samarth Seth, Aarush Malhotra, Sarthak Pal, Vivek Yadav, Yug Gupta, Agrim Sharma, Udhav Mohan, Prince Mishra, Aryan Kapoor, Pardeep Parashar, Manjeet, Ekansh Dobal, Rushal Saini, Aditya Malhotra