On The Area, Hes…: Abhishek Porel Opens Up On Axar Patels Captaincy For Delhi Capitals In IPL 2025

Younger Abhishek Porel is having fun with his time at Delhi Capitals underneath Axar Patel’s captaincy and likewise thanked elder statesman KL Rahul for placing an arm round his shoulder after he missed a catch throughout the Sunrisers Hyderabad innings. 

Nonetheless Porel, who was the uncapped retention for Delhi Capitals this 12 months, did his bit with a formidable 34 not out off 18 balls throughout his crew’s profitable chase towards SRH in an IPL match right here on Sunday.

Having performed alongside Axar over the last two seasons, Porel has began to know his new skipper higher.

“Off the sphere, he is very humorous. On the sphere, he is additionally a really motivated man. General, the captaincy was actually good. I actually loved taking part in underneath his captaincy,” Porel stated on the post-match press convention.

Porel performed purely as a batter as senior participant KL Rahul returned to the set-up after a one-game paternity break. In reality, Porel was feeling a bit down when he dropped Aniket Verma however Rahul advised him to overlook the blip.

“KL Bhai is sort of a large brother. He supported me after I dropped the catch (Aniket). He stated, ‘no worries’. Whereas batting, he stated play your pure photographs,” Porel stated.

Being an skilled glovesman, Rahul learn the wicket effectively and likewise gave him insights as to how the pitch was behaving.

“After the primary innings, he knew how the pitch was behaving. He actually backed me.”

He praised the Visakhapatnam observe. ”It was actually good. We had house matches final 12 months as effectively. This 12 months as effectively, the wicket is nice.”