{"id":1002,"date":"2014-04-15T01:58:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T05:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2014-04-15T01:58:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T05:58:28","slug":"ipl-2014-team-preview-delhi-daredevils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/ipl-2014-team-preview-delhi-daredevils\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2014 team preview: Delhi Daredevils"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team composition<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Team Rank<\/th>\nPlayer<\/th>\nEFscore<\/th>\nOverall Rank<\/th>\nRole<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nKD Karthik<\/a><\/td>\n0.102<\/td>\n28<\/td>\nWK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nM Vijay<\/a><\/td>\n0.072<\/td>\n48<\/td>\nBatsman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nJDS Neesham<\/a><\/td>\n0.064<\/td>\n57<\/td>\nAllrounder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nJD Unadkat<\/a><\/td>\n0.052<\/td>\n75<\/td>\nBowler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nS Nadeem<\/a><\/td>\n0.046<\/td>\n82<\/td>\nBowler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nJP Duminy<\/a><\/td>\n0.042<\/td>\n90<\/td>\nBatsman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nR Shukla<\/a><\/td>\n0.042<\/td>\n92<\/td>\nBowler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nNM Coulter-Nile<\/a><\/td>\n0.039<\/td>\n94<\/td>\nBowler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nR Sharma<\/a><\/td>\n0.033<\/td>\n107<\/td>\nBowler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nQ de Kock<\/a><\/td>\n0.032<\/td>\n108<\/td>\nWK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nWD Parnell<\/a><\/td>\n0.031<\/td>\n112<\/td>\nBowler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nKM Jadhav<\/a><\/td>\n0.027<\/td>\n123<\/td>\nBatsman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nSS Tiwary<\/a><\/td>\n0.021<\/td>\n140<\/td>\nBastman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nS Kaul<\/a><\/td>\n0.019<\/td>\n150<\/td>\nBowler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nMK Tiwary<\/a><\/td>\n0.017<\/td>\n153<\/td>\nBatsman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nMA Agarwal<\/a><\/td>\n0.009<\/td>\n194<\/td>\nBatsman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\nLR Shukla<\/a><\/td>\n0.004<\/td>\n235<\/td>\nBowler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\nMohammad Shami<\/a><\/td>\nNA<\/td>\nNA<\/td>\nBowler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\nKP Pietersen<\/a><\/td>\nNA<\/td>\nNA<\/td>\nBatsman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nJ Yadav<\/a><\/td>\nNA<\/td>\nNA<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\nMilind Kumar<\/a><\/td>\nNA<\/td>\nNA<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\nHS Sharath<\/a><\/td>\nNA<\/td>\nNA<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Total EFscore of top 11 players<\/b>: 0.561
\nTotal EFscore of all ranked players<\/b>: 0.660<\/p>\n

The Delhi Daredevils were the cellar dwellers in the previous season<\/a> of IPL, and the management decided to completely overhaul the squad in order to field a competitive eleven in this season. The team did not retain a single player from the previous season, and they spent a massive 10 million dollars in this year’s player auction<\/a>, the most of any team. Unfortunately for the Delhi Daredevils, they did not spend their money wisely, and they end up at the bottom of the table again in our ranking of the IPL teams.<\/p>\n

The team has a solid batting strength in Dinesh Karthik, Kevin Pietersen, Murali Vijay, JP Duminy and Quinton de Kock. Their bowling attack, however, is fairly mediocre. They do not have a single “ace” bowler, and this is likely to be their achilles’ heel throughout the tournament.<\/p>\n

Roster management<\/b>: Five of the top eleven players in the Delhi Daredevils team are from overseas, so they will need to juggle around a little bit when finalizing their playing eleven. It is likely that one or both of NM Coulter-Nile and Wayne Parnell will have to sit out in favor of a batsman.<\/p>\n

Dark horse<\/b>: Kevin Pietersen did not play in last year’s IPL, and he has just been axed from the England’s international side. He certainly has a lot to prove, and IPL might just be the perfect opportunity for him to silence his critics.<\/p>\n

Team rating methodology<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Team composition Team Rank Player EFscore Overall Rank Role 1 KD Karthik 0.102 28 WK 2 M Vijay 0.072 48 Batsman 3 JDS Neesham 0.064 57 Allrounder 4 JD Unadkat 0.052 75 Bowler 5 S Nadeem 0.046 82 Bowler 6 JP Duminy 0.042 90 Batsman 7 R Shukla 0.042 92 Bowler 8 NM Coulter-Nile 0.039… Read More »IPL 2014 team preview: Delhi Daredevils<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}