Monday, March 30, 2009

Delhi DareDevils




Owner: GMR Holdings

Franchise fee: $84 million

Most expensive player: Virender Sehwag - $833,750

The Delhi Daredevils will be led by Icon Player Virender Sehwag - the Nawab of Najafgarh who recently scored the fastest triple hundred in Test cricket. The team boasts of solid batsmen like AB de Villiers, Gautam Gambhir and Shoaib Malik, and bowlers led by the likes of Glenn McGrath, Daniel Vettori and Mohammad Asif.

The team is owned by the GMR Group and its home ground is the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium at Delhi. Greg Shipperd will don the mantle of the coach while Bollywood star Akshay Kumar is the brand ambassador of the Daredevils. Watch out for this team as they proclaim that they are going to play their cricket with unabashed enthusiasm and well on the front foot.

Delhi Dare Devils

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

Official Website : Delhi Dare Devils