Delhi Daredevils | Indian Premier League (IPL) Cricket Team
The Delhi Daredevils are to be led by their Captain Virender Sehwag Team Colours are Blue and Red - The team base is built on solid batsmen with bowlers of the calibre of Morne Morkel and Ajit Agarkar to name a coupl, add to this all rounders such as Irfan Pathan and James Hopes you have a team to look out for.
The team is owned by the GMR Group and its home ground is the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium at Delhi. Greg Shipperd will don the mantle of the coach while Bollywood star Akshay Kumar is the brand ambassador of the Daredevils.
No. of players bought: 17 (7 Indian, 10 foreign)
Money spent: $8.25 million
Irfan Pathan ($1.9 million)
Andrew McDonald ($80,000)
Umesh Yadav ($750,000)
The man raising Delhi's paddle at the auction was the fastest among all the franchises and he spent quite a bit of money, especially on Irfan Pathan, who bats and bowls but hasn't been a match-winner at either skill for some time.
Delhi have several all rounders in their squad but they lack a top class Indian batsman, apart from Virender Sehwag. They also have only one spinner in their roster of 17 players Roelof van der Merwe. The batting line up, however, is solid, and in Sehwag and David Warner, they perhaps have the most explosive opening combination of the IPL. They bought back only four players of their old squad and bid aggressively against Deccan Chargers for a lot of players.
Squad
Batsmen: Virender Sehwag (retained), David Warner ($750,000), Aaron Finch ($300,000), Venugopal Rao ($700,000), Travis Birt ($20,000), Colin Ingram ($100,000)
Bowlers: Morne Morkel ($475,000), Ajit Agarkar ($210,000), Ashok Dinda ($375,000), Umesh Yadav ($750,000), Robert Frylinck ($20,000)
Allrounders: Irfan Pathan ($1.9m), James Hopes ($350,000), Roelof van der Merwe ($50,000), Andrew McDonald ($80,000)
Wicketkeepers: Naman Ojha ($270,000), Matthew Wade ($100,000)
2010 results Won 7, Lost 7
2011 Played 14 Won 4 Lost 9 No Result 1
DATE |
HOME TEAM |
AWAY TEAM |
RESULT |
Apr 10 2011 |
Delhi Daredevils |
Mumbai Indians |
MI Won |
Apr 12 2011 |
Rajasthan Royals |
Delhi Daredevils |
RR Won |
Apr 17 2011 |
Pune Warriors India |
Delhi Daredevils |
DD Won |
Apr 19 2011 |
Delhi Daredevils |
Deccan Chargers |
DC Won |
Apr 23 2011 |
Delhi Daredevils |
Kings XI Punjab |
DD Won |
Apr 26 2011 |
Delhi Daredevils |
Bangalore RC |
BRC Won |
Apr 28 2011 |
Delhi Daredevils |
Kolkata Knight Riders |
KKR Won |
Apr 30 2011 |
Kochi Tuskers |
Delhi Daredevils |
DD Won |
May 02 2011 |
Delhi Daredevils |
Kochi Tuskers |
KT Won |
May 05 2011 |
Deccan Chargers |
Delhi Daredevils |
DD Won |
May 07 2011 |
Mumbai Indians |
Delhi Daredevils |
MI Won |
May 12 2011 |
Chennai Super Kings |
Delhi Daredevils |
CSK Won |
May 15 2011 |
Kings XI Punjab |
Delhi Daredevils |
KXI Won |
May 21 2011 |
Delhi Daredevils |
Pune Warriors India |
NR |
IPL Cricket News
The IPL Governing Council have taken a number of decisions with regard to the upcoming 2012 season.
LEAGUE FORMAT
The 2012 season will revert to the home and away format, with each of the nine franchises playing 16 matches. There will be four Play-off matches - a total of 76 matches.
The season will commence in Chennai on Wednesday, 4 April 2012.
The Play-off matches will be held in Bangalore and Chennai, with the final to be played in Chennai on Sunday, 27 May 2012.
PLAYERS The 2012 Player Auction will be held in India in late January / early February.
Each franchise will have an Auction Purse of $2m to spend on players in the 2012 auction.
For the 2012 & 2013 seasons, the maximum squad size will be increased to 33, and the cap on the number of overseas players in the squad increased to 11.
The regulation that only 4 overseas players may be in the playing XI is unchanged.
The trading window will open on 15 December 2011 and run through to 20 January 2012.
There will be a short second trading window after the Player Auction.
The trading regulations will be as per previous seasons. There will be no financial cap on trading. Franchises can only add to their squad, by way of trading, a maximum of 4 players who were bought in the 2011 Auction, and they must stay within the squad composition regulations at all times.
Latest News: Kohchi Tuskers have pulled out of the league and Pune have lost their major sponsor, Watch this space.
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