Mumbai Indians : IPL Matches

IPL Mumbai 2008 Season

No.	Date	Opponent	Venue
1	20 April	Bangalore Royal Challengers	Mumbai
2	23 April	Chennai Super Kings	Chennai
3	25 April	Kings XI Punjab	Mohali
4	27 April	Deccan Chargers	Mumbai
5	29 April	Kolkata Knight Riders	Kolkata
6	4 May	Delhi DareDevils	Mumbai
7	7 May	Rajasthan Royals	Mumbai
8	10 May	Bangalore Royal Challengers	Bangalore
9	14 May	Chennai Super Kings	Mumbai
10	16 May	Kolkata Knight Riders	Mumbai
11	18 May	Deccan Chargers	Hyderabad
12	21 May	Kings XI Punjab	Mumbai
13	24 May	Delhi DareDevils	Delhi
14	26 May	Rajasthan Royals	Jaipur

Mumbai Indians: Team

Current Squad

Batsmen

No.	Name	Age	Nationality	Batting Style	Bowling/Fielding	Bidding/Sign-in Price
1	Sachin Tendulkar (Captain) ♠	35	India	Right-handed	Right-arm Off-break/Leg break/Medium	US$ 1,121,250 (Icon Player) ♠
2	Robin Uthappa	22	India	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break	US$ 800,000
3	Loots Bosman	30	South Africa	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	US$ 175,000
4	Ashwell Prince	30	South Africa	Left-handed	Left-arm orthodox spin	US$ 175,000
5	Manish Pandey	18	India	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break	India Under-19 Team
6	Saurabh Tiwary	18	India	Left-handed		India Under-19 Team

Wicket Keepers / All Rounders

No.	Name	Age	Nationality	Batting Style	Bowling/Fielding	Bidding/Sign-in Price|-
1	Luke Ronchi	26	Australia	Right-handed	Wicket keeper	Unknown[3]
2	Yogesh Takawale	23	India	Right-handed	Wicket keeper	Catchment Area Player
3	Pinal Shah	20	India	Right-handed	Wicket keeper	Under 22 Player
4	Sanath Jayasuriya	37	Sri Lanka	Left-handed	Left-arm orthodox spin	US$ 975,000
5	Shaun Pollock	35	South Africa	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	US$ 550,000
6	Ajinkya Rahane	19	India	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Under 22 Player

Bowlers

No.	Name	Age	Nationality	Batting Style	Bowling/Fielding	Bidding/Sign-in Price
1	Harbhajan Singh	27	India	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break	US$ 850,000
2	Lasith Malinga	24	Sri Lanka	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	US$ 350,000
3	Dilhara Fernando	29	Sri Lanka	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	US$ 150,000
4	Abhishek Nayar	24	India	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	Catchment Area Player
5	Ashish Nehra	28	India	Right-handed	Left-arm fast-medium	Delhi - Ranji Trophy Player

Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians will be representative of the city of Mumbai in the Indian Premier League. The team will be led by Sachin Tendulkar, also the Icon Player for the team and coached by Lalchand Rajput, the former Manager of the Indian Cricket Team.

Franchise History

Reliance Industries Limited through its subsidiary Reliance Retail Ltd 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.

[edit] Etymology

The team logo has the Sudarshan Chakra with the team's name engraved in it. The team's colour will be blue. This is the only team that has non-anglicised team name.

The mascot is still unknown.

Players

Sachin Tendulkar is the designated icon player and also captain for Mumbai Indians. During the player auction Mumbai Indians successfully bid for 7 players, including two of the heroes of Indian Twenty-20 world cup side in Harbhajan Singh and Robin Uthappa. Sanath Jayasuriya was also another prized catch, along with South African legend Shaun Pollock. The team also added the Sri Lankan speedster Lasith Malinga.

Outside of the player auction, the franchise has also signed up Ajinkya Rahane and Abhishek Nayar (from Mumbai), Yogesh Takawale (from Maharashtra) and Pinal Shah (from Baroda).