IPL 2020 | Ricky's gonna have to pull his hair out deciding DC's XI, opines Parth Jindal

In 2018, Indian business conglomerate Jindal South West (JSW), of which Parth Jindal is a senior director, bought a 50% stake in the Delhi franchise, paying Rs 550 crore (about US$85 million) to hold joint ownership with the GMR Group. With that, Parth Jindal, at 30, became one of the youngest franchise owners in the IPL. The deal also involves JSW and GMR swapping roles to lead the team management every two years which means the 2020 IPL is the last of JSW's first cycle as lead managers. 

“I'd like to give a lot of credit to the GMR Group and to Kiran [Grandhi, of GMR, co-owner] because a lot of the players that they entrusted or they took deep bets on, like Prithvi Shaw, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Sandeep Lamichhane - all these young players, they backed them before they became big names. They were backing them since 2015. And when we took over the Delhi Capitals' management from GMR, the core of the team was very well set. It made my job a lot easier, knowing that we had such phenomenal talent.”

“Our aim is, both on the field and off the field we want to cement ourselves as one of the top three IPL franchises, behind MI and CSK. Slowly try and break into that top two as well - and that can only happen if we win an IPL or two. Without that, tough to dislodge those two great IPL franchises, but that's our ambition,” he added.