Delhi Daredevils

Delhi Daredevils
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City : Delhi

The GMR Group successfully won the bid as a Franchisee for Indian Premier League (IPL) sponsored 20-20 Delhi Team. This bid was won in an interesting and intensely contested auction organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). While the GMR Group has marked its presence in the capital through its modernising and restructuring of the Delhi International Airport, the winning of the franchisee rights for the Delhi 20-20 team augments the Group's commitment to build social assets in the important National Capital Region (NCR) and the surrounding catchment regions.



No. of players bought: 17 (7 Indian, 10 foreign)
Money spent: $8.25 million
Big-ticket signing: Irfan Pathan ($1.9 million)
Bargain buy: Andrew McDonald ($80,000)
Eyebrow-raiser: Umesh Yadav ($750,000)
Ones that got away: Zaheer Khan and Sreesanth (Delhi bid $850,000 for each)


Squad

Batsmen:
Virender Sehwag (retained),
David Warner ($750,000),
Aaron Finch ($300,000),
Venugopal Rao ($700,000),
Travis Birt ($20,000),
Colin Ingram ($100,000)

Bowlers:
Morne Morkel ($475,000),
Ajit Agarkar ($210,000),
Ashok Dinda ($375,000),
Umesh Yadav ($750,000),
Robert Frylinck ($20,000)

Allrounders:
Irfan Pathan ($1.9m),
James Hopes ($350,000),
Roelof van der Merwe ($50,000),
Andrew McDonald ($80,000)

Wicketkeepers:
Naman Ojha ($270,000),
Matthew Wade ($100,000)