Owner: GMR Holdings
Captain: Virender Sehwag
Franchise fee: $84 million
2008 Performance: Semi finals
Most expensive player: Virender Sehwag - $833,750
The Delhi Daredevils team is led by Icon Player Virender Sehwag - the Nawab of Najafgarh who holds the record for fastest triple hundred in Test cricket. Under his leadership, the Delhi Daredevils reached the semi-finals of the IPL in a stop-start campaign. The team boasts of solid batsmen like AB de Villiers, David Warner, Gautam Gambhir, Tillekeratne Dilshan, Owais Shah, Paul Collingwood and bowlers led by the likes of Glenn McGrath, Dirk Nannes, Fervez Maharoof and Daniel Vettori among others.
The team is owned by the GMR Group and Greg Shipperd is the team coach. Watch out for this outfit from Delhi as they proclaim to play with unabashed enthusiasm in the second edition of the IPL.
Full squad:
International players: Owais Shah and Paul Collingwood (England), David Warner, Andrew McDonald, Dirk Nannes and Glen McGrath (Australia), AB de Villiers (South Africa), Farvez Mahroof and Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka) and Daniel Vettori (New Zealand)
Indian players: Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Dinesh Karthik, Manoj Tiwary, Rajat Bhatia, Mithun Manhas, Avishkar Salvi, Ashish Nehra, Yo Mahesh, Pradeep Sangwan, Amit Mishra, Umesh Yadav, Yogesh Nagar and Tejashwi Yadav