Auction Preview for Delhi Daredevils in IPL 2016

Delhi Daredevils:

Total Players: 13 

Auction Purse: Rs. 37,15,00,000 

In de Kock, Shreyas Iyer DD have a very good opening pair, where they lack though is their middle-order. On JP Duminy is the automatic selection while they might give Albie Morkel a look in. Delhi Daredevils have the largest team purse and after offloading Yuvraj, they would like to get reinforcements in the middle-order. Saurabh Tiwary has been in decent form this season and with Mayank Agarwal he looks to be the Indians in the fray for the middle-order spot.

They will essentially be looking at a hard hitting middle-order batsman. One can expect them to chase Yuvraj Singh time around as well along with Dinesh Karthik and Sanju Samson as other Indians up for auction. At the same time, they might go for Martin Guptill, Aaron Finch or Shane Watson to bat at the top of the order and go all guns blazing.

They dearly missed Mohammed Shami last season who was out of the IPL due to the injury sustained during the 2015 World Cup in Australia and there are doubts again regarding his fitness. Zaheer Khan too is playing his last IPL ,the DD think tank in that case will be looking at Indian pacers, Ishant Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Irfan Pathan, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohit Sharma in the fray. Their stock of foreign fast bowlers too is filled with a solitary Nathan Coulter-Nile, DD will want to back him up with bowlers like Kane Richardson or John Hastings or they might go for the big fish Dale Steyn.

Delhi Daredevils have one of the most enviable spin departments with Amit Mishra and Imran Tahir along with impressive Shahbaz Nadeem as the 3^rd spinner in the squad.

Going into the auction, Delhi Daredevils’ main focus will be bolstering that middle order and adding more firepower to their pace attack, with desirable auction picks, they will look to avoid ending up in the bottom half of the table.

The team composition at the moment looks very dependent on their foreign stars, with very few Indian crowd-pullers. The players DD will be look get some famous Indian players on board.

Most Likely Picks: Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra, Dinesh Karthik, Irfan Pathan and the local boy Pawan Negi all of who have turned up for DD in previous seasons.