Delhi Daredevils to be headed by Duminy

With IPL 2015schedule being released all teams are gearing up to take the title this season. In the latest revelation, Delhi Daredevils has chosen JP Duminy, the South African allrounder as the team captain for IPL 8.

Indian Premier League (IPL) is seen as the festival time among cricket fans in India where players from all the cricket team around the globe participate to take the cup. 

After a disastrous fortune in the IPL 2014, Delhi retained only a few of its players which include Kevin Pietersen, Murali Vijay, Dinesh Karthik, Wayne Parnell and Ross Taylor apart from JP Duminy. 

South African will be leading Daredevils in the high voltage IPL matches, where team also has some other Kangaroo players like Imran Tahir, Albie Morkel and Quinton de Kock. Also the team coach is also South African Gary Kirsten who is a World Cup winning name. 

Delhi Daredevils came to limelight with the acquiring of Yuvraj Singh in the IPL 2015 auctions when team bought his for an astonishing Rs 16 Crore. Among other major names Sri Lankan Angelo Mathews and pacer Zaheer Khan is also in the team.

In the World Cup 2015 quarter final match against Sri Lanka, Duminy became the first South African to claim a hat-trick. Unfortunately team lost the semi finals against New Zealand in a very high performance and close match which bought tears in the eyes of the players. 

Here are some highlights of the players’ reaction after the loss. 

 

IPL is scheduled to start from April 8, 2015 and all the IPL teams will be gearing up perform their best the coming session of the money rich tournament.  

Delhi Daredevils Squad 

Jean-Paul Duminy (capt), Quinton De Kock (wk), Saurabh Tiwary, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mayank Agarwal, Kedar Jadhav, Manoj Tiwary, Mohammed Shami, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Imran Tahir, Jayant Yadav, Angelo Mathews, CM Gautam (wk), Dominic Muthuswamy, Albie Morkel, Travis Head, Marcus Stoinis, Yuvraj Singh, Amit Mishra, Jaydev Unadkat, Gurinder Sandhu, Shreyas Iyer, Kona Srikar Bharat, KK Jiyaz, Zaheer Khan.