Shreyas Iyer, who has replaced Gautam Gambhir as DD captain, was retained by the franchise for ₹7 crore in January. Iyer was named the IPL Emerging Player of the Season in 2015, for scoring 439 runs for DD, who had bought him that year for ₹2.6 crore. The 23-year-old has played 6 ODIs and 6 T20Is for India so far.