Delhi Daredevils

The Delhi Daredevils (often abbreviated as DD) are a cricket franchise representing the
city of Delhi in the Indian Premier League. Founded in 2008, during the franchise auction
for the Indian Premier League, the GMR Group purchased the Delhi franchise for $84
million. Their home ground is the historic Feroz Shah Kotla Ground in Delhi. In 2013,
they included Raipur International Cricket Stadium as their secondary home venue. The
team's current captain is Jean-Paul Duminy while the coach is Gary Kirsten. The leading
run-scorer of the side is Virender Sehwag while the leading wicket-taker is Irfan Pathan.

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12009 IPL season

22012 IPL season
32013 IPL season
42014 IPL season
5Home ground
6Brand ambassador
7Players
8Seasons
9Current squad
10Statistics

11IPL fixtures and results

11.12008 IPL season

11.22009 IPL season
11.32010 IPL season
11.42011 IPL season
11.52012 IPL season
11.62013 IPL season
11.72014 IPL season
11.82015 IPL season

12Overall results in CLT20

10.1Winloss record
10.2Head to head in IPL

12.12009 Champions League Twenty20

12.22012 Champions League Twenty20

13References
14External links

2009 IPL season[edit]

The Daredevils dominated for much of the 2009 IPL under the captaincy of Gautam
Gambhir, finishing at the top of the table after the league stages despite a mid-tournament
injury to icon player Virender Sehwag. AB de Villiers and Tillakaratne Dilshan both had
developed greatly since the last season and set up many large totals for the Daredevils,
with de Villiers hitting one of only two centuries in the 2009 IPL, which was held in
South Africa. 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 the likes of Vettori, Collingwood and McGrath on the bench for most of the
tournament, preferring to go with the oversas combination of Nannes, de Villiers, Dilshan
and David Warner.
However, despite dominating for the regular season, the Daredevils crumbled in the semifinal under a fierce batting assault by Adam Gilchrist, who hit the 3rd fastest fifty in IPL
history (just 17 balls). Nannes in particular, who was again picked over McGrath, was
punished by Gilchrist and later by Andrew Symonds. The disappointing semi-final meant
Delhi did not contest the final of the 2009 IPL despite having the best record in the league
stages. However, Delhi managed to qualify for 2009 Champions League
Twenty20because of their performance in group stage.
Delhi was the table topper or the league topper in 2012. Morne Morkel of Delhi was the
highest wicket taker of the tournament. Delhi came third in the tournament and qualified
for the second time in champions league.
Iconic Australian pace bowler Glenn McGrath expressed disappointment over not being
picked to play any match during the whole season, and has since then stopped playing for
Delhi.[1][2]

2012 IPL season[edit]

Main article: Delhi Daredevils in 2012
Due to the disbanding of Kochi Tuskers Kerala, each team will play the remaining eight
teams twice, once at home and once away. Therefore each team will play an extended
season of 16 matches.
In the IPL season of 2012 a new Delhi Daredevils side was seen after a poor 2011 season
where they finished last they came back strongly they bought some star-studded players
like Kevin Pietersen, Mahela Jayawardene and Ross Taylor.They stood first in the Pool
Table with Kolkata Knight Riders second Mumbai Indians third and Chennai Super
Kings fourth also qualifying for the Champion League Twenty20 2012 in South Africa.
Mahela Jayawardane was appointed as the new captain of the Delhi Daredevils as
Virender Sehwag stepped down from captaincy during 2012 Champions League
Twenty20.

2013 IPL season[edit]

Main article: Delhi Daredevils in 2013

The Delhi Daredevils lost all first six matches of IPL 2013 and they won their first match
in 7 games against the Mumbai Indians. Virender Sehwag and Mahela Jayawardene's
partnership led to an inevitable win against Mumbai Indians in which they scored 161.
Sehwag was the Man of the Match for his brilliant score of 95* of 57 balls. After this
match, they faced the kings X1 Punjab and lost again. But in their 9th match of the
season, against Pune Warriors India, they won and advanced to 8th place in the points
table. They defeated Kolkata Knight Riders in their 10th Match by 7 wickets but failed to
advance to 7th place due to their net run-rate. In their next match against the Sunrisers
Hyderabad, Delhi Daredevils were bowled out for just 80, which was the lowest total in
their IPL history, giving the Sunrisers an easy win. Then, in their match against Rajasthan
Royals, they scored 154 thanks to new recruit Ben Rohrer's brilliant half-century, but that
was in vain as Rajasthan chased the total down easily with only 1 wicket falling and this
also officially eliminated Delhi Daredevils from the 2014 IPL Qualifiers. In their next
match, against Royal Challengers Bangalore, they bowled well and the Royal Challengers
were 106 in 16.0 overs but scored 77 in their last four overs and got to 183 thanks to a
well-made 99 by Virat Kohli. Daredevils lost a close match match by 4 runs. Daredevils
next played Chennai Super Kings, who batted first and posted 168. Delhi Daredevils
never got into the game and lost by 33 runs. Daredevils' next match was against Kings XI
Punjab and they again lost, this time by 7 runs, as they failed to chase 172. Their final
game was against Pune Warriors India which was to decide which team would come last.
Delhi bowled first and Pune Warriors posted a total of 171. Delhi Daredevils were going
fine until they started losing wickets rapidly. They couldn't chase the target and lost by 38
runs finishing in last place out of the 9 teams this season. Delhi only won 3 matches out
of 16 played and didn't won any away games in the season. Despite coming last in the
table a few big names were added to the support staff as the season went on like the
legendary Sir Vivian Richards being named their new brand ambassador, former England
spinner Jeremy Snapeadded to the support staff and renowned former Pakistan
spinner Mushtaq Ahmed named as their new spin bowling coach.

2014 IPL season[edit]

Ahead of players auction for IPL 2014, on 10 January 2014 Delhi Daredevils team
announced that they will not retain any players for their current squad for the season 7 of
IPL. With no players retained, the team will have the maximum right-to-match cards
among all the franchises at the auction: i.e., three. They will also have their full purse of
Rs 600 million (approx US$9.6) to spend at the players auction. Virender Sehwag now
represents King's XI Punjab franchise.

Home ground[edit]
The Daredevils play their home matches in the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground located in New
Delhi, under the newly installed floodlights.They also have Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh
International Stadium,Raipur as their home ground.

Brand ambassador[edit]

Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar was the brand ambassador of the team during the
2008 Season but opted not to return for the 2009 season due to a busy schedule. However,
Akshay was seen at a few of the team's games cheering them on.
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.
Delhi Daredevils launched their new anthem "Munday Dilli Ke" on 5 March 2012 on the
video sharing site YouTube.[3]

Players[edit]
Main article: List of Delhi Daredevils cricketers
Virender Sehwag has been accorded the icon player status in the Delhi Daredevils team
and was also the captain of the side during the first two seasons. However, he resigned
and passed on the leadership to his opening partner Gautam Gambhir for the 2010 season.
But after Gambhir left the team for Kolkata Knight Riders in the fourth edition,Sehwag
was once again given the duty to captain the team. Since the start of the IPL in 2008
many international players such as Glenn McGrath, AB de Villiers, Tillakaratne
Dilshan,David Warner, Andrew McDonald, Daniel Vettori, Farveez Maharoof, Dirk
Nannes and Aaron Finch have donned the cap for the Daredevils. The team also included
Indian players like Dinesh Karthik and Yo Mahesh.
In 2009, Mohammad Asif and Shoaib Malik went out due to the ban on Pakistani players
and Asif's positive drug test. David Warner, Andrew McDonald, Paul
Collingwood andOwais Shah were the new signings. Ashish Nehra came in
from Mumbai Indians as a trade-off for Shikhar Dhawan. IPL 2010, Moises
Henriques came in from Kolkata Knight Riders in exchange for Manoj Tiwary and Owais
Shah. Wayne Parnell was purchased at the auction for USD 610,000.
In 2012, they bought Mahela Jayawardene, Andre Russell, Doug Bracewell, Morne
Morkel and Kevin Pietersen.[4] The Daredevils also signed all-rounder Pawan Negi,
batsmen Manprit Juneja and Kuldeep Rawal ahead of the 2012 season.[5] Delhi
Daredevils appointed Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene as vice-captain for 2012.
[6] On 29 February 2012, the Daredevils signed Ross Taylor from the Rajasthan
Royals in a trade for an undisclosed amount.[7]
Delhi Daredevils appointed Mahela Jayawardene as the captain for the 2013 edition and
signed Jeevan Mendis, Jesse Ryder and Johan Botha. In the IPL 7 auction held on 12 and
13 February 2014, Delhi daredevils didn't retain its key players from the previous IPL
seasons. They used right to match card for resigning Kevin Pietersen.