Delhi Daredevils is the Delhi franchise for the Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by the GMR Group. The team is captained by Gautam Gambhir.
Administration and Coaching staff:
Front Office
* Owners - GMR group
* Vice President - Amrit Mathur
* Vice President - T. A. Sekhar[5]
Coaches
* Head Coach - Greg Shipperd
* Assistant Head Coach - David Saker
* Physiotherapist - Justin Steer
Ambassador
* Akshay Kumar
Players:
Virender Sehwag has been accorded the icon player status in the Delhi team and was also the captain of the side during the first two season. However, he resigned and passed on the leadership to his opening partner Gautam Gambhir. The team also boasts international players such as AB de Villiers, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Paul Collingwood, David Warner and Andrew McDonald. The bowling attack includes international players Glenn McGrath (2008–09), Daniel Vettori, Farveez Maharoof and Dirk Nannes.
The team also includes the Indian players like Dinesh Karthik, Amit Mishra and Vijaykumar Yomahesh.
IPL 2009 Additions:
Mohammad Asif and Shoaib Malik go out due to the ban on Pakistani players and Asif's positive drug test.
David Warner, Andrew McDonald are new signings.
Ashish Nehra comes in from Mumbai Indians as a trade-off for Shikhar Dhawan.
IPL 2009 Auction Addition:
Paul Collingwood USD 275,000
Owais Shah USD 275,000
IPL 2010 Trade off : Moises Henriques comes in from Kolkata Knight Riders as a trade-off for Manoj Tiwary and Owais Shah.
IPL 2010 Auction Addition : Wayne Parnell USD 610,000
IPL 2008:
The Daredevils were well poised from the onset of the first IPL season, having most of their core players—with the exception of Daniel Vettori—available for the whole tournament. The team built their batting lineup around Delhi openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir and used the majority of their foreign player quota on their bowling attack led by Glenn McGrath and Mohammad Asif.
The team started the tournament well, winning 4 of their first 5 games. However, they were unable to sustain this and finished the round-robin portion of the tournament with a record of 7-6. Their performance was good enough to take them through to the semi-finals, where they lost by 105 runs to the Rajasthan Royals. The Royals, who had lost to the Daredevils in their first encounter, went on to win the title.
IPL 2009:
The Daredevils dominated for much of the 2009 IPL, finishing at the top of the table after the league stages despite a mid-tournament injury to icon and captain Virender Sehwag and the relatively poor form of Gautam Gambhir. A.B. de Villiers and Tillakaratne Dilshan both had developed greatly since the last season and set up many large totals for the Daredevils, with deVilliers hitting one of only two centuries in the 2009 IPL. The bowling, which in 2008 was composed mainly of overseas players (Maharoof, Vettori, McGrath, Asif) was bolstered by a trade to gain former Team India paceman Ashish Nehra in exchange for Shikhar Dhawan. Pradeep Sangwan and Amit Mishra had both improved since last season, and the offseason signing of Dirk Nannes from Australia created a bowling lineup that was strong. In fact, the Daredevils left Vettori, Collingwood and McGrath on the bench for most of the tournament, preferring to go with the overseas combination of Nannes, de Villers, Dilshan and David Warner.
Cheer Leader:
However, despite dominating for the regular season, the Daredevils crumbled in the semi-final under a fierce batting assault by Adam Gilchrist, who hit the fastest fifty in IPL history (just 17 balls). Nannes in particular, who was again picked over McGrath, was punished by Gilchrist and later Andrew Symonds. The disappointing semifinal meant Delhi did not qualify for the Champions League and did not contest the final of the 2009 IPL despite having the best record in the league stages. However, Delhi managed to qualify for champions league twenty20 because of their performance in group stage.
IPL 2010:
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