Delhi Daredevils has been associated with IPL since commitment in 2008. In 2018, they changed their name to Delhi Capitals but that does not seem to have changed its fortune. Delhi capitals do have participated in all editions of IPL but still they have never managed to reach you in the finals.
As is evident from the name, their fans mostly help from the capital city of Delhi with neighboring states of Haryana and NCR region being equal supportive to the team. Their best performance thus far has been 2009 where they stood first in the league stage but still fail to deliver and win the trophy.
Delhi Capitals Caption and Key Players
On paper, Delhi capitals seem to be a fairly balanced team. They are some good batsman in form of Shikhar Dhawan and have recently recruited Rahane as well. Then they have young guns like Prithvi Shaw and Rishabh Pant. The bowling department seems to be a bit weak with Trent Boult no more playing for them but they still have a fairly good lineup in form of Rabada, Amit Mishra and Akshar Patel and with the new recruitments of Ravichandran Ashwin and Mohit Sharma they can surely manage a good bowling match up as well.
The key players in squad are captain Shreyas Iyer, spinner Amit Mishra. In 2020, they have recruited Mohit Sharma, Ashwin and Rahane in the squad and they hope to improve their performance in this edition of IPL. The home ground of Delhi Capitals is Arun Jaitley Stadium at New Delhi which has been named under late former finance minister of India.
Delhi Capitals Performance of Delhi Capitals till now
The performance of Delhi Capitals in IPL thus far has not been impressive. They did manage to have a good start when they reached the semi finals in 2008 in 2009 but since then they have mostly struggled to reach the playoffs in most of the editions of IPL.
More recently, they can be traced right there in the last two or three teams which does not really reciprocate the kind of solid team that they have always had on paper. The last edition of IPL fetched better results for them where they were in third position in the league stage, but they still failed to reach the knockout stage.
What to expect from Delhi Capitals in IPL 2020?
Till now the performance has not been up to date and do they have never won the trophy, As already stated above, Delhi Capitals do have a good team that has the ability to deliver better results. However, the elusive IPL trophy is still far away from them. They need to plan things properly and use their team resources more efficiently. If they can do that, then they can surely deliver better results than and what they have done till now. Let us hope that, Delhi Capitals is going to perform better in this 13th edition of IPL.
Delhi Capitals IPL Team 2020
- Shreyas Iyer
- Avesh Khan
- Bandaru Ayyappa
- Ankush Bains
- Trent Boult
- Shikhar Dhawan
- Colin Ingram
- Sandeep Lamichhane
- Manjot Kalra
- Amit Mishra
- Chris Morris
- Colin Munro
- Rishabh Pant
- Axar Patel
- Harshal Patel
- Keemo Paul
- Kagiso Rabada
- Sherfane Rutherford
- Jalaj Saxena
- Ishant Sharma
- Prithvi Shaw
- Nathu Singh
- Jagadeesha Suchith
- Rahul Tewatia
- Hanuma Vihari