In a good social initiative, Delhi Daredevils have associated with UNICEF for empowering the girl child in India. They have launched a campaign “Dare to Care” and will be wearing blue ribbons during matches of DLF Indian Premier League. Delhi Daredevils will also donate portion of their earnings from tickets and merchandise towards this initiative.

“It is very important for us to protect young girls in India. We have to support them and give them strength so that they are in a position to say no whenever needed. They should be raised to a position in the society that they can give their opinions in their own household,” said Daredevils captain Virender Sehwag.

He further added, “It’s shocking for me to know that 40 per cent girls in the 14-17 age group are not in schools and 50 per cent girls are married before they are 18. For this ‘Dare To Care’ initiative, I promise UNICEF that we are ready to help in any form for this greater cause.”

Delhi Daredevils Team for Indian Premier League Season 5, 2012

Check out the players playing for Delhi Daredevils in IPL 2012.
Batsmen
Virender Sehwag (Captain)
David Warner
Mahela Jayawardene
Kevin Pietersen
Ross Taylor
Aaron Finch
Travis Birt
Robin Bist
Venugopal Rao
Unmukt Chand
Prashant Naik
Manprit Juneja
Puneet Bisht
Pawan Negi
Kuldeep Raval
Tejashwi Yadav
Gulam Bodi
Zafir Patel
Colin Ingram
Glenn Maxwell

Bowlers
Morne Morkel
Aavishkar Salvi
Varun Aaron
Andre Russell
Umesh Yadav
Ajit Agarkar
Doug Bracewell
Shahbaz Nadeem
Vikas Mishra

All-rounders
Irfan Pathan
Roelof van der Merwe
Yogesh Nagar

Wicketkeeper
Naman Ojha

Following are the matches of Delhi Daredevils in IPL Season 5, 2012.

Checkout the complete Indian Premier League 2012 Schedule here

Match: 55th T20, IPL3
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla Delhi
Date: April 18, 2010
Toss: Deccan Chargers elected to bat
Result: Deccan Chargers Won by 11 runs

In a virtual semi final i.e. the winner moving on to semifinals, Deccan Chargers and Delhi Daredevils were facing each other at Ferzo Shah Kolta ground in Delhi. Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to bat first. In this do or die match, Gilchrist once again failed to give Deccan’s a solid start. Once he was out, wickets started to fell at regular interval.Deccan Chargers were reduced to 66/4 in 9 overs and they needed some one to score fast runs. Symonds came to the rescue of Chargers as he scored a brilliant 54 off 30 balls (3*4,5*6). He took the score past 100 and it looked that Delhi bowlers had no answer to him. But then Mishra got the priced wicket of Symonds and with his wicket, Delhi came roaring back in the game. Delhi bowlers gave just 29 runs in last 5.3 overs and limited Deccan Chargers to a total of 145/7 in 20 overs.

Delhi Daredevils needed 146 to move into semi finals but Deccan Chargers were in no mood to let them win so easily, Deccan’s bowlers started of really well and got rid of D Warner in the second over. Soon Sehwag and Dilshan also got out leaving Delhi Daredevils struggling at 25/3 in 3.4 overs. Last match star and Delhi captain could not repeat his performance this time and was out for 4. With 4 top order batsmen out for just 39, the match was equally balanced in favor of both teams. Though at one stage it looked Delhi had an upper hand but the bowlers of Deccan Chargers got wickets at crucial time and made the match a real thriller. After 10 overs Delhi were 59/4 and needed 86 in last 10 overs to qualify for semi finals. Delhi lost two quick wickets and were struggling at 72/6 in 12.5 overs. P Collingwood kept the hunt on for Delhi Daredevils and in the last 2 overs they needed 27 to win. Nehra and Collingwood scored 10 runs in the 19th over and in final over they needed 17 to win. The bowl was in the hand of C Vaas and he did not let the captain down and bowled a wonderful last over and gave just 6 runs and thus Deccan won the match by 11 runs and thus enter semifinals.

Delhi Daredevils are out of DLF IPL 2010.

Match Notes

* Deccan Chargers: 50 runs in 6.5 overs, Extras 2
* Deccan Chargers: 100 runs in 12.1 overs, Extras 2
* A Symonds: 50 off 26 balls (3 x 4, 5 x 6)
* Innings Break: Deccan Chargers – 145/7 in 20.0 overs

* Delhi Daredevils: 50 runs in 7.6 overs, Extras 0
* Delhi Daredevils: 100 runs in 16.2 overs, Extras 2
* PD Collingwood: 50 off 38 balls (1 x 4, 3 x 6)

Match 55 Deccan Chargers vs Delhi Daredevils Scorecard

Match details
Match : 55 DLF IPL 2010
Sun-18 April 2010
Time: 8 pm
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

In a match that would decide the fate of both teams, Deccan Chargers will take on Delhi Daredevils at Feroz Shah Kolta today. With a win today, Deccan Chargers, will reach to the second spot in points table where as if they loose today they will be dependent on the outcome of other matches and net run rate of other teams. Delhi on the other hand has to win today’s match if they wish to see themselves in semi finals. If they loose today, they will be knocked out if Chennai wins the other match today. It has all gone down to wire and out of any of the team except Kings XI and Rajasthan Royals can proceed in semi finals.

Today’s super Sunday will decide the teams for the semi finals of the third edition of DLF Indian Premier League though KKR vs MI is still to be played on Monday.

Team For Today’s Match
Delhi Daredevils Team
Gautam Gambhir (Captain), V Sehwag, D Warner, S Ladda, Joginder Singh, R Bhatia, AB de Villiers, T Dilshan, M Henriques, K Jadhav, Paul Collingwood, K Karthik, A McDonald, M Maharoof, V Mahesh, M Manhas, A Mishra, D Nannes, A Nehra, W Parnell, S Ranjan, A Salvi, P Sangwan, Sarandeep Singh, U Yadav.

Deccan Chargers Team
A Gilchrist (captain/wicket keeper), RJ Harris, DR Smith, A Symonds, WPUJC Vaas, Y Venugopal Rao, MR Marsh, B Sumanth, MD Mishra, AA Reddy, AA Bilakhia, HH Gibbs, VVS Laxman, DB Ravi Teja, RG Sharma, TL Suman, AS Yadav, Anirudh Singh, PP Ojha, Harmeet Singh, RP Singh, KAJ Roach, R Sharma, Jaskarandeep Singh Bhuttar.