India, March 23 -- Axar Patel is an easy-going person. Kind of happy-go-lucky. At the same time, he is an high-quality allrounder. In less than two years, he has won three ICC trophies -- the 2024 T20 World Cup, the 2025 Champions Trophy and the 2026 T20 World Cup -- and he has not been a mute spectator in those triumphs; he, in fact, played a crucial role in India's wins. However, if you didn't know him, you would not notice him in a hotel lobby or at an airport lounge. That unassuming he is. So accomplished and so unassuming. A deadly combo.

Axar is also captaining Delhi Capitals who have never won the Indian Premier League (IPL) despite being part of it right from its inception in 2008. The franchise -- which changed its name to Delhi...