New IPL season, new squad, new captain, and coach but nothing worked for Delhi Daredevils in the eleventh season of Indian Premier League. Once again Delhi Daredevils has had a disappointing season of IPL, as they finished at the bottom of the points table and got the wooden spoon for the record third time in last 6 IPL seasons.
Delhi Daredevils started their IPL 2018 journey under new captain Gautam Gambhir who returned to his first IPL team after a span of 7 years but unfortunately he couldn't change DD's fortunes as team lost five out of six matches and Gambhir himself couldn't contribute with the bat and Shreyas Iyer was appointed the new captain for the rest of the season.
Throughout the season only Rishabh Pant and Trent Boult were consistent with bat and ball respectively, and players like Glenn Maxwell, Jason Roy, Colin Munro was among the major disappointments. Daredevils finished their season with two back to back wins against Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians.
Here is a look at Delhi Daredevils's IPL 2018 performance :
Team Records
1. Result Summary :
| Opposition | Match | Won | Lost | NR |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Chennai Super Kings | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Rajasthan Royals | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Mumbai Indians | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Kings XI Punjab | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 14 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
- Delhi Daredevils won 4 out of 7 games at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, Delhi and won only one away game (against Mumbai Indians in Mumbai).
2. Highest Team Total :
219/4 vs KKR at Delhi
198/5 vs CSK at Pune
196/6 vs RR at Delhi
3. Lowest Team Total :
129 vs KKR at Kolkata
139/8 vs KXIP at Delhi
162/5 vs CSK at Delhi
Batting Records
1. Most Runs :
| Player | Mat | Inns | Runs | Avg | SR | HS | 100 | 50 |
| R Pant | 14 | 14 | 684 | 52.6 | 173.6 | 128* | 1 | 5 |
| S Iyer | 14 | 14 | 411 | 37.4 | 132.6 | 93* | 0 | 4 |
| P Shaw | 9 | 9 | 245 | 27.2 | 153.1 | 65 | 0 | 2 |
| V Shankar | 13 | 11 | 212 | 53.0 | 143.2 | 54* | 0 | 1 |
2. Highest individual scores :
Rishabh Pant - 128* vs SRH at Delhi
Shreyas Iyer - 93* vs KKR at Delhi
Jason Roy - 91* vs MI at Mumbai
Rishabh Pant - 85 vs RCB at Bangalore
3. Highest batting average (Min 5 innings played) :
Vijay Shankar - 53.0
Rishabh Pant - 52.6
Shreyas Iyer - 37.4
Jason Roy - 30.0
4. Highest strike rate (Min 100 balls faced) :
Rishabh Pant - 173.6
Prithvi Shaw - 153.1
Vijay Shankar - 143.2
Glenn Maxwell - 140.8
5. Most fifty plus scores :
Rishabh Pant - 6
Shreyas Iyer - 4
Prithvi Shaw - 2
Gautam Gambhir / Jason Roy / Vijay Shankar - 1
Bowling Records
1. Most wickets :
| Player | Mat | Inns | Wkts | Avg | Eco | BBI | 4-fers |
| T Boult | 14 | 14 | 18 | 25.8 | 8.8 | 2/20 | 0 |
| A Mishra | 10 | 10 | 12 | 22.0 | 7.1 | 3/19 | 0 |
| H Patel | 5 | 5 | 7 | 23.8 | 9.5 | 3/28 | 0 |
| R Tewatia | 8 | 8 | 6 | 28.8 | 7.8 | 3/18 | 0 |
2. Best bowling figures in an innings :
Liam Plunkett - 3/17 vs KXIP at Delhi
Rahul Tewatia - 3/18 vs KKR at Kolkata
Amit Mishra - 3/19 vs MI at Delhi
Harshal Patel - 3/28 vs MI at Delhi
3. Best bowling average (Min 5 wickets) :
Sandeep Lamichhane - 16.4
Amit Mishra - 22.0
Harshal Patel - 23.85
Trent Boult - 25.9
4. Best economy rate (Min 10 overs bowled)
Sandeep Lamichhane - 6.83
Amit Mishra - 7.13
Glenn Maxwell - 8.25
Daniel Christian - 8.53
