In IPL 2026, Delhi Capitals has included English cricketer Rehan Ahmed in its team as a replacement for Ben Duckett. Ahmed will join Delhi Capitals for an amount of Rs 75 lakh. Duckett had withdrawn his name from the IPL 2026 season citing his commitment to the England cricket team. The Delhi team did not immediately announce his replacement and in his absence, Sri Lanka’s Pathum Nissanka took the responsibility of opening along with KL Rahul.

21 year old Rehan Ahmed has created a sensation across the world with his leg-spin bowling. Ahmed, known as a bowling all-rounder, has so far taken 85 wickets and scored 1071 runs in 97 T20 matches. He has shown brilliant performance in The Hundred League, where he has taken 23 wickets in 25 innings. He also has experience of playing in Big Bash League and ILT20. This will be the first time that Rehan Ahmed will play for an IPL team.

Rehan Ahmed has played for England in all three formats. He has taken a total of 49 international wickets in his career of 5 Test matches, 9 ODIs and 13 T20 matches. Rehan Ahmed will join the strong spin bowling unit of Delhi Capitals, which already includes Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Vipraj Nigam and Tripuran Vijay.

There are many in-form batsmen in the Delhi Capitals team, but the bowling has not been very impressive. The result of this is that there is no bowler from Delhi present in the top-15 of the Purple Cap race.

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