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 Duckett had withdrawn his name from the IPL 2026 season citing his commitment to the England cricket team.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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England has suffered a big setback regarding the preparations for the T20 World Cup 2026, two of their players are facing trouble in getting visas. Its connection is with Pakistan, all the matches of which are to be held in Sri Lanka. These 2 players are Adil Rashid and Rehan Ahmed.

According to the report of ‘The Guardian’, the Indian government has not yet issued visas to Rehan Ahmed and Adil Rashid. According to the report, due to this delay, these two players of Pakistani origin will not be able to go with the team to Sri Lanka, where the Sri Lanka vs England series of 3 ODIs and 3 T20 matches will be played. It is not clear how long both the players will join their team. Let us tell you that Rashid is currently playing in SA20 and Rehan is playing in Big Bash League.

The report said that the England and Wales Cricket Board has been assured that there is no objection to their applicant. Efforts are being made to complete the process as soon as possible with the help of the British Government. Due to the absence of Ahmed and Rashid, Liam Dawson is the only specialist spinner in the team.

England’s first match is on 8th February

T20 World Cup 2026 is being organized in India and Sri Lanka. The tournament is starting from 7th February, England’s first match is on 8th February at Wankhede. The England team is in Group C, which also includes Bangladesh, Italy, Nepal and West Indies. England’s first match is with Nepal. All the matches of Group C are scheduled in India, but Bangladesh has demanded from ICC that their matches should be shifted to Sri Lanka.

England’s provisional squad for T20 World Cup 2026

Harry Brook (captain), Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Tom Banton, Jacob Bethel, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Liam Dawson, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Jamie Overton, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Josh Tongue, Luke Wood.