Local flavour to rule

No prizes for guessing which team will get the maximum cheers when it steps into the Tau Devi Lal Stadium for the inaugural match of the Indian Cricket League, but writing off the Delhi Jets will be a risk nobody would want to take. Indeed, the crowd will be getting behind the ‘home’ team, Chandigarh Lions, but Delhi Jets are well-balanced. Led by Sri Lankan Marvan Attapatu and bolstered by the foreign recruits in Taufeeq Umar, Dale Benkenstein and Niall O’Brien, Delhi Jets will also bank on domestic talent.

One thing that may go against the

noopener" target="_blank">Delhi Jets would be the fact that the Chandigarh Lions have 13 players from Punjab who have played their cricket together. On the other hand, the Delhi Jets is a team consisting of players from different states. However, as Madan says, “Nothing is impossible in this format.”