India, March 17 -- Delhi Capitals seemed to have sorted out their perennial lack of competitive edge perennial lack of competitive edge when they reached the second qualifier in 2019, the final in 2020 and the second qualifier in 2021, the first three years of their existence after they shed their erstwhile name Delhi Daredevils. However, this has been followed by three years of them failing to make it past the league stage. This has led to DC changing their captains twice in the last five years, first by switching Shreyas Iyer with Rishabh Pant in 2021 and now choosing to replace the latter the latter with Axar Patel.

While they let go of a big name in Pant before the mega auction in November last year, DC were arguably the most active ...