English legend Kevin Pietersen rejoins Delhi Capitals, appointed as the mentor for IPL 2025

Former England captain and player Kevin Pietersen is all set to make his comeback in the IPL, not as a player but as a coach as he's set to join the Delhi Capitals (DC) as their mentor for IPL 2025. The 44-year-old will be partnering up with the likes of Matthew Mott (Assistant Coach), Hemang Badani (Head Coach), Venugopal Rao (Director of Cricket) and Munaf Patel (Bowling Coach) in the support staff of the franchise. 

The franchise, which made the official announcement on their application, has not appointed a captain yet for the upcoming season of the cash rich T20 league. 

This assignment with DC will be the first ever coaching assignment in the IPL for Pietersen. He last played in the cash rich t20 league nine years ago in 2016. The 44-year-old represented three IPL franchises from 2009 to 2016, including the Delhi based team and had even handled the captaincy duties for the team 17 times. 

After captaining the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) for a brief period of time in the 2009 edition of the IPL, he was appointed as the full time skipper of DC in 2014, where they finished at the last place, managing to secure just two wins in 14 contests.

The legendary English batter has also captained England 15 times, including the two-match Test Series versus the Indian National Cricket Team in 2008. Besides the IPL, the former right handed batter has also played in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), Caribbean Premier League (CPL) and the Big Bash League (BBL). Overall, he has featured in 200 t20 matches, amassing a total of 5,695 runs at a decent average of 33.89 and a strike rate of 136.

The Delhi Capitals, who have qualified for the final of the IPL on just a single occasion in 2020, finished sixth in the overall standings last season and they went into this year's mega auction with one of the biggest purse among all the ten participating teams after releasing majority of their players and retaining the services of only Kuldeep Yadav, Abhishek Porel, Axar Patel and Tristan Stubbs. 

They added the likes of Harry Brook, former LSG skipper KL Rahul, Mitchell Starc and Faf du Plessis to their squad in the mega auction and overall, the team of DC is looking really strong.

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