GMR Holdings the owner of the IPL Delhi franchise has chosen the name Delhi Daredevils. A contest on SMS that was run by GMR in the city produced thousands of names. They chose Daredevils from the names submitted.
GMR has requested that Virendra Sehwag be name an ICON player so he can be part of the Delhi team and be made the captain of the team. This proposal is pending with the IPL. Once that is decided Sehwag will be automatically be made captain.
Greg Shipperd who is currently the coach of the Victoria team in Australia will take up an assignment with the Delhi Daredevils.
The Delhi-based IPL franchise has chosen TA Sekar, the chief coach at the MRF Pace Academy, to be in charge of it’s cricket operations.
Ranji Trophy members of the Delhi team Mithun Manhas, Rajat Bhatia and Shikhar Dhawan will be included in the team along with the under-22 category players Viraat Kohli, Pradeep Sangwan and Tanmay Srivastava of Uttar Pradesh.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
From now on Delhi team as Delhi Daredevils
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