Delhi Giants was one of the nine teams played in the defunct Indian Cricket League

Indian Cricket League

The Indian Cricket League was a private cricket league funded by Zee Entertainment Enterprises that operated between 2007 and 2009 in India...

 (ICL). This team represents the Indian capital city, New Delhi

New Delhi

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, India

India

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 and its captain is Marvan Atapattu, former skipper of Sri Lanka.

Players

The squad announced for the inaugural tournament comprises five international cricketers. Delhi Giants has a well-balanced team with Atapattu as captain and experienced players like Paul Nixon and Taufeeq Umar.

Former Team

Coach - Madan Lal

Madan Lal

Madan Lal Udhouram Sharma is a former Indian cricketer and Indian national cricket coach. He currently coaches Delhi Giants in the Indian Cricket League...

• Marvan Atapattu
  Marvan Atapattu
  Marvan Samson Atapattu is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and former Sri Lankan captain. Towards the end of his career he joined the Indian Cricket League and captained the Delhi Giants...
  
   (Sri Lanka)
• Mohnish Mishra (Madhya Pradesh)
• Taufeeq Umar
  Taufeeq Umar
  Taufeeq Umar is a Pakistani cricketer who was a regular Test opening batsman for three seasons, before being dropped ahead of the 2004–05 season. Unusually for a Pakistani player, Umar has played more Tests than ODIs, as he was not given a prolonged run in the ODI side until 2003, when he played...
  
   (Pakistan)
• Abbas Ali
  Abbas Ali
  Syed Abbas Ali , in Indore is a former Indian first class cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman. Ali debuted in 1996/97 and scored his career best score of 251 in the following season. This was a Madhya Pradeshh record at that time, which was better after two years by Jai Yadav made 265 runs in an...
  
   (Madhya Pradesh)
• Paul Nixon
  Paul Nixon
  Paul Andrew Nixon is an English cricket player who has played for Leicestershire, England, England A, MCC and Kent. He is a wicket-keeper and left-handed batsman...
  
   (England)
• Dale Benkenstein
  Dale Benkenstein
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   (South Africa)
• J.P. Yadav
  Jai Yadav
  Jai Prakash Yadav is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler.Playing for Railways cricket team in the Ranji Trophy, he batted primarily as an opener...
  
   (Railways)
• Ali Murtaza
  Ali Murtaza
  Ali Ghulam Murtaza is an Indian First Class cricketer. He is currently a member of Indian World Team in the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 competition. He bowled wonderfully in ICL games and earned a reputation of a very good left-arm spinner. In IPL 2010, he was a part of the Mumbai Indians...
  
   (Uttar Pradesh)
• T. Sudhindra (Madhya Pradesh)
• Abid Nabi Ahanger (Jammu and Kashmir)
• Sachin Dholpure (Madhya Pradesh)
• Abhishek Tamrakar (Madhya Pradesh)
• Shalabh Srivastav (Uttar Pradesh)
• Abhishek Sharma (Delhi)
• Dishant Yagnik (Udaipur)
• Dhruv Mahajan (Jammu and Kashmir)
• Abhinav Bali
• Raghav Sachdev
• Shane Bond
  Shane Bond
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  (New Zealand)

Previous performance

Tournament	Placement
2007 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Indian Championship	3rd place
2008 Indian Cricket League 50s	Winners
2008 Indian Cricket League Edelweiss 20s Challenge	5th place
2008 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Domestic Tournament	4th place
2008 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Indian Championship, 2008/09	6th place