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2016 Delhi Daredevils season

Indian Premier League cricket team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ20807336 ↗
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Delhi Daredevils (DD) were a franchise cricket team based in Delhi, India, which played in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They were one of the eight teams to compete in the 2016 Indian Premier League.

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Players with international caps before the start of 2016 IPL are listed in bold.

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This entry incorporates text from “2016 Delhi Daredevils season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.