The franchisee for the team representing Delhi in the Indian Premier League has been bought by the GMR Group for a cost of $84 million. The Delhi Daredevils have Yogesh Shetty as the CEO of the team and Greg Shipperd as the coach of the team.

The Icon player of the team as well as the captain is Virendra Sehwag who was selected at the first auction of the IPL. The Icon player of the team is paid fifteen percent more than the highest paid player in the team. In addition to Sehwag, various other famous players were man aged to be taken in the team. These include Daniel Vettori who was obtained at a price of US$625,000 and Mohammad Asif who cost the team owners US$650,000. These two are the highest paid in the team after the icon player. Other players in the team are Shoaib Malik, AB de Villiers, Farveez Mahmood, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Gautam Gambhir, Manoj Tiwary, Glenn McGrath, and Brett Geeves etc.

Other local players and under-19 and under-22 players have been taken in as well which have the likes of Pradeep Sangwan, Mithun Manhas, Rajat Bhatia, Mayank Tehlan, Shikhar Dhawan etc.

Sl No.	Player	Category	Cost-US$	Country
01	Virender Sehwag	Batsman (C)	$833,750	India
02	Gautam Gambhir	Batsman	$725,000	India
03	Abraham de Villiers	Batsman	$300,000	South Africa
04	David Warner	Batsman	$	Australia
05	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Batsman	$250,000	Sri Lanka
06	Yogesh Nagar	Batsman	$	India
07	Owais Shah	Batsman	$	England
08	Dinesh Karthik	Batsman/WK	$525,000	India
09	Mithun Manhas	Batsman/WK	$	India
10	Manoj Tiwary	Batsman	$675,000	India
10	Mayank Tehlan	All Rounder	$	India
11	Paul Collingwood	All Rounder	$	England
12	Andrew McDonald	All Rounder	$	Australia
13	Farveez Maharoof	All Rounder	$225,000	Sri Lanka
14	Rajat Bhatia	All Rounder	$	India
15	Glenn McGrath	Bowler	$350,000	Australia
16	Daniel Vettori	Bowler	$625,000	New Zealand
17	Ashish Nehra	Bowler	$	India
18	Amit Mishra	Bowler	$	India
19	Brett Geeves	Bowler	$	Australia
20	Dirk Nannes	Bowler	$	Australia
21	Vijaykumar Yo Mahesh	Bowler	$	India
22	Aavishkar Madhav Salvi	Bowler	$	India
23	Pradeep Sangwan	Bowler	$	India
24	Umesh Yadav	Bowler	$	India