How Capitals are adapting to the new T20 reality

The first week of any Indian Premier League season is always exciting because it brings with it a sense of uncertainty.

- HT Correspondent

Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel (R) at a media conference.

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How will the new lineup perform? Will the new tactics work? Will the weaker teams turn things around? Will the stronger teams carry on in the same vein?

This is true for all teams. But with Delhi Capitals, every question point to just one thing: will this be the year that they finally win the trophy? Among the teams that played in the inaugural 2008 season, only Punjab Kings (formerly Kings XI Punjab) and Delhi Capitals (formerly Delhi Daredevils) are yet to win the title and that has been a persistent bugbear for both teams.

“We don't have to necessarily re-emphasise what's happened or how the season has gone. Every player who has played for us last year or even through the season recognises that we could have finished differently,” DC coach Hemang Badani said in the preseason press conference here on Monday.

“It's not for us to keep driving that and drilling it into their heads, try and be a lot more objective about how we will get better, what is it that you can add value, how can you be better than what you are right now to make sure that we cross the line.”