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Mumbai Indians
File:MumbaiIndians.png
Personnel
CaptainIndia Sachin Tendulkar
OwnerReliance Industries Limited
Team information
ColorsBlue and Dark BlueTemplate:Cr-IPL/Flags
Founded2008
Home ground
Capacity45,000 & 65,000
Official websiteMumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians is a cricket team in the Indian Premier League. The team is led by Sachin Tendulkar, who is also the Icon Player for the team. The team is coached by Robin Singh and is owned by India's biggest conglomerate, Reliance Industries, through its 100% subsidiary IndiaWin Sports.

History

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) purchased the rights for the Mumbai franchise of Indian Premier league for a total of $111.9 million during the auction on January 24, 2008. The RIL bid has made the Mumbai Indians the most expensive franchise in IPL, and hence won the right to hold the semi-finals and the final in Mumbai. The team was unveiled on the 17th of April, 2008 in Mumbai.

2008 IPL season

The season got off to a nightmarish start for the Indians, having lost their captain and one of the greatest players of the century Sachin Tendulkar to a hamstring injury. With Harbhajan Singh taking over as captain, the team proceeded to lose their first 4 matches of the tournament. After Singh’s suspension for hitting Sreesanth, Shaun Pollock assumed the leadership duties until Tendulkar’s return on 14 May. It was during this time that the team turned their fortunes around, putting together a 6 game winning streak and an opportunity to make the semi-finals. They were unable to take advantage of this opportunity as they lost 3 of their next 4 games, with the 3 losses occurring in very close affairs. All these three games were lost in the last ball of the match.The match between MI and kings XI Punjab played on 21st May was considered to be the best of the season with Yuvraj Singh diving full length to run out the MI batsman in the last delivery of the match.The Indians finished with a record of 7 wins and 7 losses. Sanath Jayasuriya played a vital role in securing two important wins for the team.

Mumbai Indians were the most watched team on television in the first edition of the IPL tournament, totaling 239 million viewers.[1] This is no doubt a credit to the little master Sachin Tendulkar who has a great fan following throughout the world.After posting a revenue of INR 69 crore and expenditure of INR 85 crore, the first season left the owners with net loss of INR 16 crore and were expected to break even in the 2009 season.[2]

2009 IPL season

During the IPL's first transfer window, The Indians acquired Zaheer Khan in exhange for Robin Uthappa and Shikhar Dhawan in exchange for Ashish Nehra. Jaydev Shah was also added to the roster, while Loots Bosman, Dwayne Smith, Dominic Thornely, Ashwell Prince and Manish Pandey were released from their contracts.

Shaun Pollock decided not to return for the second season of IPL. He, however, kept an association with the franchise, taking up the role of the Team Mentor. Pravin Amre replaced Lalchand Rajput as the coach.

At the player auction on February 6, 2009, the Mumbai Indians purchased J P Duminy for $950,000, Kyle Mills for $150,000 and Mohammad Ashraful for $75,000. They also signed all rounders Graham Napier and Ryan McLaren for undisclosed fee outside of the auction.

2010 IPL season

During the IPL's first auction for the year2010, Mumbai Indians bought West Indian all-rounder Kieron Pollard for USD 750,000, after a silent tie-breaker with Chennai Super Kings,Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Kolkata Knight Riders. Only three of India's Under-19 players, priced at Rs. 800,000 each, were eligible to play in the IPL and they were chosen by a draft system. Bangalore picked U-19 captain Ashok Menaria, Deccan went for Harmeet Singh and Mumbai opted for Harshal Patel.

Logo and brand ambassador

The team logo has the Sudarshana Chakra with the team's name engraved in it. The team's colour is blue. The team's jersey is a two-tone blue with three stripes in orange.

In 2008, Bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan was the brand ambassador of the team[3].

Players

During the player auction in 2008, the Mumbai Indians successfully bid for 7 players, including two members of the Indian Twenty-20 World cup winning side in Harbhajan Singh and Robin Uthappa. Sanath Jayasuriya, Lasith Malinga, Luke Ronchi,Dilhara Fernando and Shaun Pollock were other cricketers who were successfully bid for by the franchise.[4]

Outside of the player auction, the franchise also signed up Ajinkya Rahane and Abhishek Nayar (from Mumbai), Yogesh Takawale (WK-Batsman from Maharashtra) and Pinal Shah (WK-Batsman from Baroda).[5] Saurabh Tiwary and Manish Pandey, the members of the U-19 world-cup winning team were the random picks drafted in during the BCCI held second auction. Dominic Thornely was also signed by the Mumbai Indians for a sum of $25000. Andre Nel the South African fast bowler was signed on in the place of Dwayne Bravo who left the tournament early.[6]

In the 2009 player auction,the Mumbai Indians signed up South African sensation, Jean Paul Duminy for $950,000.He was the third most expensive pick after Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff (both signed up for $1.55m by Bangalore Royal Challengers and Chennai Super Kings respectively). In addition they also bought New Zealander,Kyle Mills.

Transfers

In the 2008-2009 transfer window, Mumbai Indians conducted two straight swap deals, with no money exchanged. Ashish Nehra was swapped with Shikhar Dhawan of Delhi Daredevils[7] and on the last day of the transfer window, Robin Uthappa was swapped with Zaheer Khan of Royal Challengers Bangalore[8], who plays for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy. In a three-way trade, Jaydev Shah of the Rajasthan Royals - captain of the Saurashtra Ranji squad that made it to the semi-finals and son of former cricket board secretary Niranjan Shah - will move to the Mumbai Indians. Batsman Gaurav Dhiman of the Mumbai Indians will turn out for the Bangalore Royal Challengers and lanky Rajasthan Ranji Trophy team pacer Pankaj Singh, of the Rajasthan Royals, will don the colours of the Bangalore Royal Challengers in the coming IPL season.

Current squad

Template:Mumbai Indians Roster

Stadiums

The Mumbai Indians have two home grounds, the Wankhede Stadium and the Dr. D.Y. Patil Sports Academy. For the IPL's 2009 season, the Mumbai Indians had agreed to use the Cricket Club of India's Brabourne Stadium while the Wankhede Stadium underwent renovation. Brabourne Stadium would have hosted 5 of the 7 home matches, if not for the IPL being moved to South Africa.

Administration

Fixtures and results

2010 season

No. Date Opponent Venue Result
1 13 March Template:Cr-IPL Mumbai won by 4 runs

2009 season

No. Date Opponent Venue Result
1 18 April Template:Cr-IPL Cape Town Won by 19 runs, MoM – Sachin Tendulkar – 59* (49)
2 21 April Template:Cr-IPL Durban Match did not start after intermittent rain
3 25 April Template:Cr-IPL Durban Lost by 19 runs
4 27 April Template:Cr-IPL Port Elizabeth Won by 92 runs; MoM – Sachin Tendulkar – 68 (45)
5 29 April Template:Cr-IPL Durban Lost by 3 runs
6 1 May Template:Cr-IPL East London Won by 9 runs; MoM – Jean-Paul Duminy – 52 (37)
7 3 May Template:Cr-IPL Johannesburg Lost by 9 wickets
8 6 May Template:Cr-IPL Pretoria Lost by 19 Runs
9 8 May Template:Cr-IPL East London Lost by 7 wickets
10 10 May Template:Cr-IPL Port Elizabeth Won by 16 Runs; MoM – Jean-Paul Duminy – 59* (41)
11 12 May Template:Cr-IPL Pretoria Won by 8 wickets; MoM – Harbhajan Singh – 1/9 (4 overs)
12 14 May Template:Cr-IPL Durban Lost by 2 Runs
13 16 May Template:Cr-IPL Port Elizabeth Lost by 7 Wickets
14 21 May Template:Cr-IPL Pretoria Lost by 4 Wickets

2008 season

No. Date Opponent Venue Result
1 20 April Template:Cr-IPL Mumbai Lost by 5 wickets
2 23 April Template:Cr-IPL Chennai Lost by 6 runs
3 25 April Template:Cr-IPL Mohali Lost by 66 runs
4 27 April Template:Cr-IPL Navi Mumbai Lost by 10 wickets
5 29 April Template:Cr-IPL Kolkata Won by 7 wickets, MoM – Sanath Jayasuriya – 3/14 (4 overs) and 18 (10)
6 4 May Template:Cr-IPL Navi Mumbai Won by 29 runs, MoM – Shaun Pollock – 33 (15) and 2/16 (4 overs)
7 7 May Template:Cr-IPL Navi Mumbai Won by 7 wickets, MoM – Ashish Nehra – 3/13 (3 overs)
8 14 May Template:Cr-IPL Mumbai Won by 9 wickets, MoM – Sanath Jayasuriya – 114* (48)
9 16 May Template:Cr-IPL Mumbai Won by 8 wickets, MoM – Shaun Pollock – 3/12 (4 overs)
10 18 May Template:Cr-IPL Hyderabad Won by 25 runs, MoM – Dwayne Bravo – 30 (17) and 3/24 (4 overs)
11 21 May Template:Cr-IPL Mumbai Lost by 1 run
12 24 May Template:Cr-IPL Delhi Lost by 5 wickets
13 26 May Template:Cr-IPL Jaipur Lost by 5 wickets
14 28 May Template:Cr-IPL Bangalore Won by 9 wickets, MoM – Dilhara Fernando – 4/18 (4 overs)
Total Overall Record of 7-7, failed to make playoffs

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ "Will cricket's new czars make money?". Business Today. 2008-05-14.
  3. ^ "Mumbai Indians rope in Hrithik Roshan as brand ambassador". The Times of India. 2008-04-14.
  4. ^ Sp choudary, Symonds fetch highest prices in the lucrative new Indian Premier League bidding - International Herald Tribune
  5. ^ "IPL: Rahane joins Mumbai". 2008-02-26.
  6. ^ Cricinfo - Nel leaves Essex early for IPL
  7. ^ [2]
  8. ^ [3]
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