IPL 2023: 5 Delhi Capitals (DC) players who could be benched throughout the season
DC are full of match-winners but it would not be possible for the team management to give opportunities to each and every player present in the team.
2. Rilee Rossouw
Rilee Rossouw has been a giant of a player in the shortest format of the game. The 33-year-old has put on an exhibition of his swashbuckling stroke play and dismantled bowling attacks for fun. He has featured in 278 T20 matches and aggregated 7005 runs at a strike rate of 142.90.
Rossouw was in a rich vein of form leading up to the IPL 2023 auction, having plundered 372 runs in 11 T20Is played in 2022, and Delhi Capitals signed him for the coming season to bolster their batting line-up. However, given the composition of the side, the South African batter might not make it to the playing XI.
David Warner, Marsh and Anrich Nortje are likely to be Delhi's first-choice overseas picks in IPL 2023. Given Rishabh Pant will be missing the coming season, the think tank might include Phil Salt in the middle-order to fill the wicketkeeper void in the team, thereby fourth overseas slot is also locked in.
Moreover, if the think tank decides to hand the keeping gloves to Sarfaraz Khan and exclude Salt, then too, Rovman Powell might be picked in the XI as he fared well in the role of a finisher last season, hammering 250 runs in 14 matches at a strike rate of 149.70. Thus, Rossouw being benched for the entire season seems to be on the cards.
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