Delhi Daredevils

Delhi Daredevils

Delhi Daredevils is a franchise in the Indian Premier League. Zaheer Khan is the captain of the team in 2016 IPL session, while the coach and mentor are Paddy Upton and Rahul Dravid respectively.

Delhi Daredevils is the Delhi based franchise for the Indian Premier League in cricket. The GMR Group owns the franchise. It is founded in the year 2008, during the franchise auction for the Indian Premier League, the GMR Group purchased the Delhi franchise for $84 million.

Home Grounds of Delhi Daredevils
The home grounds of Delhi Daredevils 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 was table toppers twice (an IPL record shared only with the Chennai Super Kings) and qualified for Champions League T20 twice, making the semi-finals in the 2012 edition.

Theme Song of Delhi Daredevils
Popular Indian playback singer, Kailash Kher has sung the theme song for Delhi Daredevils - "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. In 2015 Indian Premier League season Abhay Jain is dedicating his energetic song "Go Delhi Go" as the theme song of Delhi Daredevils to boost up the team and fans.

Players of Delhi Daredevils

Mayank Agarwal

JP Duminy

Shreyas Iyer

Karun Nair

Chris Morris

Pawan Negi

Jayant Yadav

Carlos Brathwaite

Sam Billings

Sanju Samson

Quinton de Kock

Rishabh Pant

Mohammed Shami

Nathan Coulter-Nile

Amit Mishra

Gurinder Sandhu

Zaheer Khan

Shahbaz Nadeem

Imran Tahir

Khaleel Ahmed

Pawan Suyal

Chama Milind

Pratyush Singh

Support Staffs for Delhi Daredevils

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
Team analyst -Physiotherapists - Paul Close and Vaibhav Daga
Trainer - Rajnikanth
Masseur - Rajeev Kumar

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