Delhi Giants

Delhi Giants

Personnel
Captain	Marvan Atapattu
Coach	Madan Lal
Overseas player(s)	Marvan Atapattu (Sri Lanka), Dale Benkenstein (South Africa), Niall O'Brien (Ireland), Taufeeq Umar (Pakistan), Paul Nixon (England), Shane Bond (New Zealand)
Team information
Founded	2007

Delhi Giants (formerly Delhi Jets until the 2008 Edelweiss 20's Challenge) was one of the nine teams played in the now-defunct Indian Cricket League (ICL). This team represented the Indian capital city, New Delhi, and its captain was Marvan Atapattu, former skipper of Sri Lanka.^[1][2]

Players

The squad announced for the inaugural tournament comprises five international cricketers. Delhi Giants had a well-balanced team with international-level players such as Marvan Atapattu as captain and experienced players like Paul Nixon and Taufeeq Umar; and local talent from various parts of India.

Former team

Coach - Madan Lal

• Marvan Atapattu (Sri Lanka)
• Mohnish Mishra (Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh)
• Taufeeq Umar (Pakistan)
• Abbas Ali (Madhya Pradesh)
• Paul Nixon (England)
• Dale Benkenstein (South Africa)
• Jai Prakash Yadav (Railways)
• Ali Murtaza (Uttar Pradesh)
• TP Sudhindra (Madhya Pradesh)
• Anand Pratap Singh (Madhya Pradesh)
• Abid Nabi (Jammu and Kashmir)
• Sachin Dholpure (Madhya Pradesh)^{[citation needed]}
• Abhishek Tamrakar (Madhya Pradesh)
• Shalabh Srivastava (Uttar Pradesh)
• Abhishek Sharma (Delhi)
• Dishant Yagnik (Udaipur)
• Dhruv Mahajan (Jammu and Kashmir)
• Abhinav Bali
• Raghav Sachdev
• Shane Bond (New Zealand)

Coach

The coach for this Delhi Giants team was former Indian Cricket international Madan Lal.

Previous performance

References

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