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{{Short description|Cricket franchise}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox cricket team
| name = India Capitals
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| nickname = The Capitals
| league = Legends League Cricket
| captain = [[Gautam Gambhir]]
| coach = [[Hemang Badani]]
| city = [[Delhi]], [[India]]
| title1 = Legends League. Cricket
| title1wins = 2022
| owner = [[GMR Group]]
| founded = {{Start date and age|2022}}
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'''India Capitals''' are a professional [[cricket]] franchise team based in [[Delhi]], [[India]], that compete in the Legends League Cricket.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Laghate |first1=Gaurav |title=Adani, GMR acquire franchises in Legends League Cricket |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/adani-gmr-acquire-franchises-in-legends-league-cricket/articleshow/93778986.cms |access-date=6 December 2023 |work=[[The Economic Times]] |date=25 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Staff |first1=CricTracker |title=LLC 2022: GMR's newly acquired franchise gets named India Capitals |url=https://www.crictracker.com/llc-2022-gmrs-newly-acquired-franchise-gets-named-india-capitals/ |access-date=6 December 2023 |work=CricTracker |date=26 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref> The team was founded in 2022. The team is owned by [[GMR Group]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Official website of Group |url=https://www.gmrgroup.in/sports/ |publisher=GMR Group |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=GMR, Adani land Legends League Cricket franchises |url=https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/gmr-adani-land-legends-league-cricket-franchises/ |access-date=6 December 2023 |work=SportBusiness |date=26 August 2022}}</ref> They have won the first season of LLC in 2022.<ref>{{cite news |title=Capitals beat Kings Capitals won by 104 runs - Kings vs Capitals, Legends League Cricket, Final Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur October 05, 2022 Match Summary, Report |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/legends-league-cricket-2022-1334551/bhilwara-kings-vs-india-capitals-final-1334573/live-cricket-score |access-date=6 December 2023 |work=ESPNcricinfo |date=5 October 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

The captain of the team is [[Gautam Gambhir]]<ref>{{cite news |title=LLC 2023: India Capitals Retains Captain Gautam Gambhir |url=https://www.thedailyjagran.com/cricket/legends-league-cricket-2023-india-capitals-retains-captain-gautam-gambhir-and-pravin-tambe-irfan-pathan-to-continue-with-bhilwara-kings-10106538 |access-date=6 December 2023 |work=[[Dainik Jagran]] |date=11 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref> and coach is [[Hemang Badani]].<ref>{{cite news |title=We are delighted to announce Hemang Badani as our Head Coach |url=https://twitter.com/CapitalsIndia/status/1713876641192255611 |access-date=6 December 2023 |work=[[Twitter]] |language=en}}</ref>

== Seasons ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!Year
!League standing
!Final standing
|-
|2022
| 1st out of 4
| style="background: gold;" |Champion
|-
|2023
| 4th out of 6
| Playoffs
|-
|}

==Current squad==
* [[Gautam Gambhir]] (c)
* [[Pravin Tambe]]
* [[Ashley Nurse]]
* [[Morne van Wyk]]
* [[Rusty Theron]]
* [[Ben Dunk|Ben Robert Dunk]]
* [[Ricardo Powell]]
* [[Fidel Edwards]]
* [[Dilhara Fernando]]
* [[Kirk Edwards]]
* [[Ishwar Pandey]]
* [[Hashim Amla]]
* [[Kevin Pietersen]]
* [[K. P. Appanna]]
* [[Munaf Patel]]
* [[Gnaneswara Rao (cricketer)|Yalaka Gnaneswara Rao]]
* [[Isuru Udana]]
* [[Hamish Bennett (cricketer)|Hamish Bennett]]
* [[Bharat Chipli]]

==See also==
* [[Delhi Capitals]]
* [[Delhi Capitals (WPL)]]
* [[Dubai Capitals]]
* [[Pretoria Capitals]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Sport in Delhi]]
[[Category:Cricket clubs established in 2022]]
[[Category:Cricket in Delhi]]

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RowenaTardent at 04:26, 5 February 2026