2021 Delhi Capitals season

Delhi Capitals are a Twenty20 franchise cricket team based in Delhi, India. The team competed in the 2021 Indian Premier League. Founded in 2008 as the Delhi Daredevils, the franchise is owned by the GMR Group and the JSW Group. The team's home ground is Arun Jaitley Stadium, located in New Delhi.

Player retention and transfers
The Delhi Capitals retained 18 players and released seven players.

Retained Players: Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan, Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Lalit Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Pravin Dubey, Chris Woakes.

Released Players: Harshal Patel, Alex Carey, Keemo Paul, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Lamichhane, Mohit Sharma, Jason Roy, Daniel Sams.

Added Players: Steve Smith, Manimaran Siddharth, Tom Curran, Umesh Yadav, Lukman Meriwala, Vishnu Vinod, Ripal Patel, Sam Billings

 Supportive Players :  Aniruddha Joshi, Shams Mulani

Squad

 * Players with international caps are listed in bold.

League stage
The full schedule was published on the IPL website on 7 March 2021.

Playoffs

 * Qualifier 1


 * Qualifier 2

Most runs

 * Source: ESPNcricinfo

Most wickets

 * Source: ESPNcricinfo