DC IPL 2023 team, schedule, stats, record, history: Have Delhi Capitals ever won the IPL?

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The Delhi Capitals are hoping the Indian Premier League 2023 can finally be the year they break their title duck.

Having finished runners-up in 2020, the Capitals topped the group stage a year later only to lose in the play-offs.

Things didn't go to plan 12 months ago either, as the Capitals finished fifth to miss out on the play-offs. With a number of inclusions made to bolster their roster, maybe 2023 will finally be the year they get the job done.

Here, Sporting News previews everything you need to know about the Capitals ahead of IPL 2023.

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Delhi Capitals IPL Stats

Year	Matches	Wins	Losses	No Result	Win %	Position
2008	15	7	8	0	46.6%	4th (lost in playoffs)
2009	15	10	5	0	66.6%	1st (lost in playoffs)
2010	14	7	7	0	50%	5th
2011	14	4	9	0	28.5%	10th
2012	18	11	7	0	66.1%	1st (lost in playoffs)
2013	16	3	13	0	18.75%	9th
2014	14	2	14	0	14.3%	8th
2015	14	5	8	1	35.7%	7th
2016	14	7	7	0	50%	6th
2017	14	6	8	0	42.8%	6th
2018	14	5	9	0	35.7%	8th
2019	16	10	6	0	62.5%	3rd (lost in playoffs)
2020	17	9	8	0	52.9%	2nd (lost in final)
2021	16	10	6	0	62.5%	1st (lost in playoffs)
2022	14	7	7	0	50%	5th
Total	225	103	122	1	45.7%

Three years ago, the Capitals went closest to finally ending their wait for a championship and it came outside of India with the tournament being played in the UAE due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Shreyas Iyer (65no) and Rishabh Pant (56) helped the Capitals to 156-7 but the Mumbai Indians chased down that total with eight balls to spare to win by five wickets.

The Capitals won 10 of 14 league matches to sit top of the standings in 2021 but fumbled in the playoffs – losing to the Chennai Super Kings in the preliminary qualifier then going down to the Kolkata Knight Riders in the second qualifier.

Delhi Capitals Squad 2023

Riyan Parag	All-rounder	21	INR 3.80 crores
Shimron Hetmyer	Batter	26	INR 8.50 crores
Ravichandran Ashwin	All-rounder	36	INR 5 crores
Trent Boult	Bowler	33	INR 8 crores
Obed McCoy	Bowler	26	INR 75 lakhs
Yuzvendra Chahal	Bowler	32	INR 6.5 crores
Navdeep Saini	Bowler	30	INR 2.60 crores
Kuldeep Sen	Bowler	26	INR 20 lakhs
Kuldip Yadav	Bowler	26	INR 20 lakhs
KC Cariappa	Bowler	28	INR 30 lakhs
Joe Root	Batter	32	INR 1 crore
Dhruv Jurel	Wicketkeeper-batter	22	INR 20 lakhs
Donavon Ferreira	Wicketkeeper-batter	24	INR 50 lakhs
Kunal Singh Rathore	Wicketkeeper-batter	20	INR 20 lakhs
Adam Zampa	Bowler	30	INR 1.5 crore
KM Asif	Bowler	29	INR 30 lakhs
Murugan Ashwin	Bowler	32	INR 20 lakhs
Jason Holder	All-rounder	31	INR 5.75 crore
Akash Vashist	All-rounder	28	INR 20 lakhs
Abdul Basith	All-rounder	24	INR 20 lakhs

Rilee Rossouw and Manish Pandey have been added to the side to bulk up the side's batting stocks. The pair will join retained players David Warner and Mitchell Marsh, who will be playing under fellow Aussie and head coach Ricky Ponting.

Warner will be deputising as captain for Pant, who is unavailable after being in a car crash. Phil Salt is likel to slot into the middle order, while Abishek Porel is expected to sign and take the gloves.

Axar Patel has emerged as one of the most important players for the Capitals and India sides after showing his power-hitting during the recent Test series against Australia on home soil, which India won 2-1.

Patel slotted into the batting order at number eight and showed his aggressive hitting against the likes of Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon.

Top-order batsman Prithvi Shaw has shown that he is a name to remember. Shaw made displayed his prodigious talent when he captained his country to the Under-19 world cup in 2018.

Shaw also displayed his class and power in a clash in 2021 when he was the second player to hit six boundaries in an over off the bowling of Shivam Mavi in the first over of the Delhi innings.

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