{"id":540830,"date":"2026-03-14T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/540830\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:08:10","slug":"kevin-pietersen-says-he-wont-be-able-to-serve-as-dcs-mentor-in-ipl-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/540830\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Pietersen says he won&#8217;t be able to serve as DC&#8217;s mentor in IPL 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Former England captain Kevin Pietersen, who mentored the Delhi Capitals last year, said on Saturday that he won&#8217;t be able to serve the role in the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The IPL 2026 is starting on March 28 with defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru hosting Sunrisers Hyderabad at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot be the mentor for Delhi Capitals this IPL season. I cannot give the time that the job requires. Best wishes to all the players for this season! However, I&#8217;ll see you back in the commentary box. IPL is the world&#8217;s best league and I can&#8217;t wait to see you all soon!,&#8221; Pietersen said on X in a post written in Hindi.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi Capitals will start their IPL 2026 season against Lucknow Super Giants at the Ekana Stadium in an away game in Lucknow on April 1.<\/p>\n<p>DC&#8217;s first game at home is against the Mumbai Indians on April 4.<\/p>\n<p>Pietersen, who has played for three teams across five IPL seasons, was appointed as DC&#8217;s mentor before the start of the 2025 edition.<\/p>\n<p>He has also represented the erstwhile Delhi Daredevils franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Pietersen also led in 17 matches in the IPL, captaining Royal Challengers Bengaluru briefly in IPL 2009 before leading Daredevils in 2014. DC have never won the IPL title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: Former England captain Kevin Pietersen, who mentored the Delhi Capitals last year, said on Saturday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,267987,31775,85],"class_list":["post-540830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-former-england-captain-kevin-pietersen","tag-ipl-2026","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}