Delhi has finally made it up to the finale of the Indian Premier League after a long journey of 13 years, where they struggled to find their mojo despite signing a catalogue of big names over the years. However, since handing over the team to Shreyas Iyer and overhauling their squad with youngsters, Delhi earned two consecutive playoffs berths which is an amazing feat in itself. Now, they are set to lock horns with Mumbai Indians, in the final, to grab their first-ever title. 

After getting knocked out from the Indian Premier League in 2019, Delhi Capitals brought in both Ravichandran Ashwin and Ajinkya Rahane hoping that the duo will add some much-needed experience to their young blooded team. While Rahane seems to have finally settled down after a jittery start, Ashwin has become an integral part of the line-up since the start of this season, picking up 13 wickets at an economy of 7.76. 

“You can have that sort of element of luck when players are picked in the auction. When players are traded, it means that there is a clear strategy from the team releasing the player and from the team which is acquiring the player as to what sort of a role that particular player has to play. In the auction, you do not know if you would get the player you would want, but in a transfer, you do have that sort of a control over which player you would want to have,” he said. 

“So, from that perspective, yes, what they have tried to do is that they have tried to separate their team compositions in three different departments – one is they want to have overseas fast bowling, they want to have Indian spinners and they want to have Indian batsmen.”