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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