Delhi Daredevils
Administration and Support staff
Mentor – Rahul Dravid
Owners – GMR Group
Head coach – Paddy Upton
Batting coaches – Pravin Amre and Sridharan Sriram
Bowling coach – T. A. Sekhar
Technical director – Zubin Bharucha
Team manager – Sunil Valson
Physiotherapists – Paul Close and Vaibhav Daga
Trainer - Rajnikanth
Masseur - Rajeev Kumar
The Delhi Daredevils (often abbreviated as DD) are a franchise cricket team representing the city of Delhi in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Founded in 2008 as one of the eight founding teams of the IPL, the Delhi franchise is owned by the GMR Group. Their home grounds are the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground in Delhi and the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Despite never making it to the IPL final, the team were table toppers twice (an IPL record shared only with the Chennai Super Kings) and qualified for Champions League T20 twice, making the semifinals in the 2012 edition. However, in recent seasons, the team has struggled, often ending up as wooden spooners.
The team's current captain is Zaheer Khan while the coach and mentor are Paddy Upton and Rahul Dravid respectively.
Famous Bollywood playback singer Kailash Kher has sung the team anthem - "Khel Front Foot Pe" a.k.a. "Play on the front foot" or "play aggressively". It is played at every Delhi Daredevils match.
Their new anthem for the 2016 season of IPL titled 'Dhuandaar Dilli' was released on YouTube which has been sung by Sukhwinder Singh
The team's current captain is Zaheer Khan while the coach and mentor are Paddy Upton and Rahul Dravid respectively.
Famous Bollywood playback singer Kailash Kher has sung the team anthem - "Khel Front Foot Pe" a.k.a. "Play on the front foot" or "play aggressively". It is played at every Delhi Daredevils match.
Their new anthem for the 2016 season of IPL titled 'Dhuandaar Dilli' was released on YouTube which has been sung by Sukhwinder Singh
Players added:
- Angelo Mathews (2 Cr)
- Corey Anderson (1 Cr)
- Kagiso Rabada (5 Cr)
- Pat Cummins (4.50 Cr)
- Ankit Bawne (INR 10 Lakhs)
- Aditya Tare (25 Lakhs)
- Murugan Ashwin (1 Cr)
- Navdeep Saini (10 lakh)
- Shashank Singh (10 Lakh)
Players retained:
- JP Duminy
- Mohammed Shami
- Quinton de Kock
- Shahbaz Nadeem
- Jayant Yadav
- Amit Mishra
- Shreyas Iyer
- Zaheer Khan
- Sam Billings
- Sanju Samson
- Chris Morris
- Carlos Brathwaite
- Karun Nair
- Rishabh Pant
- CV Milind
- Syed Ahmed
- Pratyush Singh.
Total players in the squad: 26(17 Indian)
Overseas players: 9
Spent: INR 14.05 crorePurse at the end of the auction: INR 9.05 Crore
