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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. The team is led by Sachin Tendulkar, who is also the Icon Player for the team.
The inaugural IPL season got off to a nightmarish start for the Mumabi Indians, having lost Tendulkar to a hamstring injury. With Harbhajan Singh taking over as captain, the team lost their first four matches of the tournament. After Harbhajan’s suspension for slapping Kings XI Punjab player S Sreesanth, Shaun Pollock assumed the leadership duties until Tendulkar’s return. 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. BUt, the Mumbai Indians lost three of their last four matches, to finish with a record of 7 wins and 7 losses.
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 and on the last day of the transfer window, Robin Uthappa was swapped with Zaheer Khan of Royal Challengers Bangalore. The team also released Dwayne Smith, Dominic Thornely and Ashwell Prince from their contracts in the off-season.
At the second IPL player auction on February 6, 2009, the Mumbai Indians purchased South African batsman JP Duminy for $950,000, New Zealand fast bowler Kyle Mills for $150,000 and Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful for $75,000.
Two teams – Deccan Chargers and Delhi Daredevils – have dominated the tournament thus far, while the two that take on each other in Durban on Wednesday have both emerged strong contenders. Punjab Kings XI overcame their rain-affected defeats in their first two games to win the next two quite comfortably, marking a trend similar [...]
Deccan Chargers, last year’s winners of the wooden spoon, are the form team this season and lead the league after two matches. Their opponents at Kingsmead, however, are likely to present a tougher challenge than did Kolkata Knight Riders and Bangalore Royal Challengers.
Despite a star-studded batting line-up Deccan were last season’s whipping boys and the [...]
Mumbai Indians is a cricket team in the Indian Premier League. The team is led by Sachin Tendulkar, who is also the Icon Player for the team. The team is coached by Pravin Amre, the former manager of the Indian Cricket Team and is owned by India’s biggest conglomerate, Reliance Industries, through its 100% subsidiary [...]
JP Duminy, the South Africa batsman, has admitted he is still pinching himself to make sure he has been bought by an IPL franchise for US$ 950,000, and says he is now looking forward to pick up some tips this month from Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya, his Mumbai Indians team-mates, who he looked up [...]
Pravin Amre, the former Indian batsman, has been appointed assistant coach of the Mumbai Indians for the second season of the IPL. Amre fills in the breach left after the departure of Lalchand Rajput, who stepped down for “personal” reasons, walking out of his three-year contract. Amre’s signing is part of the ongoing hiring process [...]
