Explained: Why Ashutosh Sharma Is Not Part Of Delhi Capitals Playing XI For IPL 2025 Match Against SRH
Ashutosh Sharma scored 66 runs from 31 balls for DC in the last IPL 2025 match played against Lucknow Super Giants on Monday.
Delhi Capitals are taking on Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 10th league stage match of IPL 2025 on Sunday (March 30). The match is currently underway at the Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. SRH captain Pat Cummins has won the toss and opted to bat first. Zeeshan Ansari is playing for SRH today in place of fast bowler Simarjeet Singh, whereas KL Rahul is making his IPL debut for Delhi Capitals. He came in place of Sameer Rizvi.
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In the playing XI announced by DC, there was, however, no place for Ashutosh Sharma. The 26-year-old cricketer from Ratlam single-handedly won the IPL 2025 match for DC against LSG on Monday (March 24). He is part of the impact players list, though, and there are high chances that he will come in as an impact player during the second half of the match.
In DC’s last match as well, Ashutosh came in as an impact player and hammered 66 runs from just 31 balls with the help of five fours and five sixes.
Ashutosh’s record in IPL
Ashutosh has played 12 matches so far for Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals in the IPL and has 255 runs to his name. His batting average in the world’s richest franchise cricket league is 36.42, and his strike rate is 177.08. He played 11 matches for Punjab Kings in IPL 2024 and scored 189 runs in nine innings.
He was signed for Rs 3.80 crore by Delhi Capitals in the IPL 2025 mega auction. In the IPL, Ashutosh has scored two half-centuries.
Playing XIs
Delhi Capitals: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel (WK), KL Rahul, Axar Patel (C), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (WK), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins (C), Zeeshan Ansari, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami
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