IPL 2022 Delhi Capitals: Squad, full schedule and playing 11 prediction

IPL 2022: Get the full schedule, full squad list and playing 11 combinations of Delhi Capitals for the upcoming season. MI will open its campaign against Mumbai Indians on March 27, 2022

Delhi Capitals were forced to change their captain at the start of the last season and that change then meant that they went on with Rishabh Pant in place of Shreyas Iyer even when he returned back from injury fully fit and fine for the second leg of IPL 2021 in UAE. This meant that Iyer changed his routes and moved eastwards to Kolkata Knight Riders. 

Now, Rishabh Pant who is going through a purple patch has the responsibility of turning the fortunes of the team from the Capital. Having made three playoffs back to back since 2019, it is now time that Delhi has its own IPL champions and who better than a man from Delhi itself- Rishabh Pant to bring it home. But before that happens the team need to play 14 league games, starting from the first one against Mumbai Indians on March 27 at the Brabourne-CCI in Mumbai. 

IPL 2022 DC Squad

Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Prithvi Shaw, Anrich Nortje, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Shardul Thakur, Mustafizur Rahman, Kuldeep Yadav, Ashwin Hebbar, Abhishek Sharma, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, KS Bharat, Mandeep Singh, Khaleel Ahmed, Chetan Sakariya, Lalit Yadav, Ripal Patel, Yash Dhull, Rovman Powell, Pravin Dubey, Lungi Ngidi, Vicky Ostwal, Sarfaraz Khan

IPL 2022: Delhi Capitals' Schedule

The 2022 season is unique in the sense that, unlike previous editions, each team will not play the other twice, rather all 10 teams will play only 14 games each. In that regard, they will play five teams twice and four teams just once. To decide, which four teams will the team play once and which five twice, 10 teams are divided into two groups of five each. The group is based on the number of Trophies won and the number of participations in an IPL Final.

The following is the division of Groups

Group 1	Group 2
Mumbai Indians	Chennai Super Kings
Kolkata Knight Riders	Sunrisers Hyderabad
Rajasthan Royals	Royal Challengers Bangalore
Delhi Capitals	Punjab Kings
Lucknow Super Giants	Gujarat Titans

Each team will play all the teams in its own group twice and the team parallel to it in the other group twice. And for the rest of the teams in the other group, the said team will play them only once. For e.eg DC will play all the teams in its group twice and Punjab Kings from the other group twice as well, but the other four teams from Group 2 will play DC only once.

On that basis, here is the full schedule of DC for IPL 2022

Versus (Team)	Venue	Date and Time (IST)	Match Number
Mumbai Indians	Brabourne-CCI, Mumbai	27.03.2022, 1530 hrs	02
Gujarat Titans	MCA Stadium, Pune	02.04.2022, 1930 hrs	10
Lucknow Super Giants	DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai	07.04.2022, 1930 hrs	15
Kolkata Knight Riders	Brabourne-CCI, Mumbai	10.04.2022, 1530 hrs	19
Royal Challengers Bangalore	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	16.04.2022, 1930 hrs	27
Punjab Kings	MCA Stadium, Pune	20.04.2022, 1930 hrs	32
Rajasthan Royals	MCA Stadium, Pune	22.04.2022, 1930 hrs	34
Kolkata Knight Riders	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	28.04.2022, 1930 hrs	41
Lucknow Super Giants	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	01.05.2022, 1530 hrs	45
Sunrisers Hyderabad	Brabourne-CCI, Mumbai	05.05.2022, 1930 hrs	50
Chennai Super Kings	DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai	08.05.2022, 1930 hrs	55
Rajasthan Royals	DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai	11.05.2022, 1930 hrs	58
Punjab Kings	DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai	16.05.2022, 1930 hrs	64
Mumbai Indians	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	21.05.2022, 1930 hrs	69

Unlike many other teams, Delhi Capitals would mostly have all its main players (apart from David Warner) available before the start of the season and under the leadership of Pant, could really look to take the early lead in the 10 team race

IPL 2022 DC Playing 11 Prediction

Prithvi Shaw, David Warner (Tim Seifert in Warner's absence), Rovman Powell, Abhishek Sharma, Rishabh Pant (c), (wk),  Sarfaraz Khan, Axar Patel,, Shardul Thakur, Anrich Nortje, Kuldeep Yadav,  Mustafizur Rahman