|
| Owner |
GMR Group |
Founded |
2008 |
| CEO |
Yogesh Shetty |
Head Coach |
Greg Shipperd |
| President |
Amrit Mathur |
Captian |
Gautam Gambhir |
| Ground |
Feroz Shah Kotla |
Icon Player |
Virender Sehwag |
| Capacity |
60,000 |
Team Value |
US $84 million |
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Team Profile
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With two of the world’s most explosive Twenty20 batsman in their line up the Delhi Daredevils go into this months Indian Premier League as one of the favorites to win IPL 3.0 but it will need to be third time lucky after two heartbreaking semi final defeats.
The Daredevils, captained by Gautam Gambhir, have reached the knock out stages in both of the previous two IPL seasons only to see their dreams of glory cut short by the eventual winners.
They were beaten by the Deccan Chargers in last years semi finals and during the inaugural IPL season they were crushed by the Rajasthan Royals losing by a margin of 105 runs.
With a team built around openers Gambhir and Virender Sehwag the DareDevils are one of the most feared teams in the IPL. The pair has scored over 1400 runs in the IPL and they have helped the DareDevils win 17 games in the previous two seasons.
The DareDevils, to their credit don’t just rely on Gambhir and Sehwag though; they have assembled a strong batting lineup which includes David Warner, Tillakaratne Dilshan and AB de Villiers.
With all rounders Paul Collingwood, Farveez Maharoof and Daniel Vettori in the squad the DareDevils have built a strong middle order which was strengthened with the signing of Australian Moises Henriques.
Henriques, who was part of the NSW Blues team that won last years Twenty20 Champions League can contribute with quick fire innings and his medium pace bowling.
During January’s player auction the DareDevils completed the signing of South African Wayne Parnell who will add extra pace to a bowling attack already including Dirk Nannes and Ashish Nehra.
Supported by world class spinner Vettori and Indian fast bowler Pradeep Sangwan the DareDevils will once again challenge for a place in this years knock out stages of the IPL.
| Current Squad |
|
Name |
Age |
Posistion |
Batting |
Bowling |
|
Aavishkar Salvi
|
28
|
Bowler |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm medium
|
|
|
AB de Villiers
|
25
|
Batsman |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm medium
|
|
|
Amit Mishra
|
27
|
Bowler |
Right-hand bat
|
Legbreak
|
|
|
Andrew McDonald
|
28
|
All Rounder |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm fast-medium
|
|
|
Ashish Nehra
|
30
|
Bowler |
Right-hand bat
|
Left-arm medium-fast
|
|
|
David Warner
|
23
|
Batsman |
Left-hand bat
|
Legbreak
|
|
|
Dinesh Karthik
|
24
|
Wicketkeeper |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm offbreak
|
|
|
Dirk Nannes
|
33
|
Bowler |
Right-hand bat
|
Left-arm fast
|
|
|
Farveez Maharoof
|
25
|
All Rounder |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm fast-medium
|
|
|
Gautam Gambhir
|
28
|
Batsman |
Left-hand bat
|
Legbreak
|
|
|
Joginder Singh
|
29
|
Batsman |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm medium
|
|
|
Kedar Jadhav
|
24
|
Bowler |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm offbreak
|
|
|
Mithun Manhas
|
30
|
Batsman |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm offbreak
|
|
|
Moises Henriques
|
23
|
All Rounder |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm fast-medium
|
|
|
Pradeep Sangwan
|
19
|
Bowler |
Right-hand bat
|
Left-arm medium
|
|
|
Rajat Bhatia
|
30
|
All Rounder |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm medium-fast
|
|
|
Sarabjit Ladda
|
23
|
Batsman |
Right-hand bat
|
Legbreak
|
|
|
Sarandeep Singh
|
30
|
Batsman |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm offbreak
|
|
|
Shashi Ranjan
|
28
|
Batsman |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm offbreak
|
|
|
Tillakaratne Dilshan
|
33
|
All Rounder |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm offbreak
|
|
|
Umesh Yadav
|
22
|
All Rounder |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm fast-medium
|
|
|
Virender Sehwag
|
31
|
All Rounder |
Right-hand bat
|
Right-arm offbreak
|
|
|
Wayne Parnell
|
20
|
Bowler |
Left-hand bat
|
Left-arm medium-fast
|
|
|
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