Mumbai Indians

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Mumbai Indians

Coach:  Robin Singh

Captain:  Sachin Tendulkar

Colours: Blue and White

         

Founded: 2008

 Wankhede Stadium(Capacity: 45000)

Home ground:
 Brabourne Stadium(Capacity: 20000)

Owner: Reliance Industries Limited

Official website: Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians (Marathi: मुंबई इंडियन्स),is a franchise cricket team representing Mumbai in theIndian Premier

League. The team is one of the ten founding members of the IPL in 2008. Mumbai Indians are currently led
by Sachin Tendulkar, who is the Icon Player for the team and is coached by Robin Singh. The team is owned
by India's biggest conglomerate, Reliance Industries, through its 100% subsidiary IndiaWin Sports.

[edit]History

Reliance Industries Limited () purchased the rights for the Mumbai franchise of Indian Premier league for a total
of Rs. 441 Cr ($ 112.9 m) during the auction on 24 January 2008. In what has been described by some as "the
ultimate heights of laziness in name selection" and "like they chose the name by throwing darts on a wall" the
franchise was eventually named the Mumbai Indians. While this is arguably a "tour de force" in ineptitude, the
name does acknowledge that people from Mumbai are largely Indian, which in the club's defence, is somewhat
true. 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.

[edit]2008 IPL season

The season got off to a nightmarish start for the Indians, having lost their captain 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 21 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 to
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]

[edit]2009 IPL season

During the IPL's first transfer window, The Indians acquired Zaheer Khan in exchange 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 andManish 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 6 February 2009, the Mumbai Indians purchased JP 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.

[edit]2010 IPL season

During the IPL's first auction for the year 2010, Mumbai Indians bought Westindian 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.The team had a strong start after defending a total of 212 against the Rajasthan
Royals in their first match and went on to beat Delhi Daredevils defending another 218.The team was
supported by match-winning knocks from Tiwary,Rayudu and Tendulkar.However the Mumbai Indians
crumbled to the Royal Challengers Bangalore for their first loss in 3 games.In their next game, Mumbai Indians
restricted the Kolkata Knight Riders to a meagre 155.The Mumbai Indians chased this total with ease, as
Sachin Tendulkar scored a blazing knock of 71 from 48 balls. It also won in the same fashion against Chennai
Super Kings by Sachin Tendulkar, again playing a match-winning knock of 72 from 52 balls.They continued
their winning streak by winning against the previous year's champions, Deccan Chargers, due to an amazing
knock of 49 from just 18 balls and a spell of 3-31, by Harbhajan Singh. They also beat Kings XI Punjab by 4
wickets, courtesy of Shikhar Dhawan, Saurabh Tiwary &Rajagopal Sathish. They also defeated the Deccan
Chargers by 63 runs and won their 7th game out of the 9 games played . On 11/04/2010, Mumbai Indians beat
Rajasthan Royals to become the first team in IPL 2010 to qualify for semi-finals. In their 12th game they
defeated Delhi Daredevils and remained the table toppers with 18 points and a run rate of +1.12. In the 13th
game Mumbai Indians Defeated Royal Challengers in their Home Ground in a match that was delayed due to a
small intensity blast in the stadium premises. In the final league game Mumbai Indians rested their key players.
Dwayne Bravo lead the game in absence of Sachin Tendulkar and they lost the game to Kolkata Knight riders
by nine wickets. With 20 points they were at the top of the points table and played their first IPL semi-final
with Royal Challengers Bangalore. They crushed their opponents in the semi finals despite losing Sachin
Tendulkar for a single digit score, which happens to be his first single digit score this year in all forms of the
game. They lost their first IPL final to Chennai Super Kings. They also qualified for Champions League
Twenty20 2010 along with Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Sachin Tendulkar had an excellent IPL 2010, amassing 618 runs with a strike rate of 132.61. [3] He won the
orange cap for the tournament, which is awarded to the highest run scorer. He played an important role in
bringing out young talent to the forefront in players like Saurabh Tiwary, Ambati Rayudu and Aditya Tare.
Sachin Tendulkar also won the best batsman and the best captain awards in the IPL Awards 2010. [4]

Each Team will play 14 games. The team would be playing home and away matches with five teams, away
matches with two teams and home matches with two teams.

[edit]Club Logo & Colours

The team logo has the Sudarshana Chakra with the team's name engraved in it.
The team colours was almost the same in 2008 and 2009, except for the colour shade and additional sponsors.
In 2010 a new kit with golden stripes was unveiled.

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[edit]Current squad

Mumbai Indians have retained Sachin Tendulkar, Harbajan Singh, Kieron Pollard and Lasith for IPL 2011.

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Support Staff
Wicket Keepers
 Head Coach:   Robin Singh
 82   Davy
 Deputy Coach:   Paras
Jacobs
Mhambrey
 90   Ambati
 Fielding Coach:   Jonty
Rayudu
Rhodes
 07   Aditya
 Fitness Coach:   Ramji
Tare
Srinivasan

 Physiotherapist:   Nitin
Bowlers
Patel
 99   Lasith
 Bowling Coach:   TA Sekhar
Malinga
 Performance Analyst   
 15   Clint
CKM Dhanajai
McKay

 33   Munaf
→ More rosters
Patel

 30   Dhawal

Kulkarni

 14   Abu

Nechim

 39   Ali

Murtaza

 50   Yuzven

dra Chahal

 67   Pawan

Suyal
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[edit]Administration

 Owner - Reliance Industries limited

 Director - TA Sekhar

 Coach - Robin Singh

 Assistant Coach - Paras Mhambrey

 Physio - Nitin Patel

 Fitness Trainer - Ramji Srinivasan

 Video Analyst - Dhananjai CKM

 Masseur - Donald Shugg

[edit]Sponsors and Partners

American multinational corporation - Mastercard is the offical founding sponsor of the Mumbai Indians,
[10]
 while Adidas is their official apparel sponsor.[11] Associate sponsors and offical partners include Dheeraj and
East Coast LLC, Kingfisher, Wrigley's Orbit, Wrigley's Boomer, Royal Stag, Air India, Msn and Red FM 93.5.[12]

Anil Ambani
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 Anil Ambani

Born 4 June 1959 (age 51)

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Residence Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Nationality Indian

Alma mater University of Mumbai

University of Pennsylvania

Occupation Chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group

Net worth US$13.7 billion (2010)[1]

Spouse Tina Munim

Children 2[2]

Relatives Mukesh Ambani (Brother)

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (born 4 June 1959) is an Indian business baron and chairman ofReliance Anil

Dhirubhai Ambani Group, one of the largest private conglomerates. Anil's elder brother, Mukesh Ambani, is
also worth more than 29 billion dollars, and owns another company called Reliance Industries. As of 2010, he
is the fourth richest Indian with a personal wealth of $13.7 billion, behind Mukesh Ambani, Lakshmi
Mittal and Azim Premji.[3]

He is a member of the Board of Overseers at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also
the member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad. He is a member of the Central Advisory Committee, Central Electricity Regulatory
Commission. In March 2006, he resigned. He is also the Chairman of Board of Governors of DA-
IICT, Gandhinagar.

Career

Ambani joined Reliance, the company founded by his late father Dhirubhai Ambani, in 1983 as Co-Chief
Executive Officer and is credited with having pioneered many financial innovations in the Indian capital
markets. For example, he led India's first forays into overseas capital markets with international public offerings
of global depositary receipts, convertibles and bonds. He directed Reliance in its efforts to raise, since 1991,
around US$2 billion from overseas financial markets; with a 100-year Yankee bond issue in January 1997
being the high point, after which people regarded him as a financial wizard [citation needed]. He along with his brother,
Mukesh Ambani, has steered the Reliance Group to its current status as India's leading textiles, petroleum,
petrochemicals, power, and telecom company.

He has been linked with several starlets in his long career including his current wife of more than 15 years. He
is a close friend of movie starAmitabh Bachchan and Subrata Roy.One of his major achievements in the
entertainment industry is the takeover of Adlabs, the movie production to distribution to multiplex company that
owns India's only dome theatre and the recently announced joint venture worth US$ 825 million with Steven
Spielberg

He has been embroiled in a dispute with his brother, Mukesh Ambani, over the supply of gas from the latter's
KG basin.

He recently topped Business Sheet's "world's biggest loser" list of business leaders who lost money in the Late
2000s recession,[4] losing $32.5 billion in 2008, which brought him out of the top ten list to number 34 in 2009.

Assassination attempt

On the evening of 22 April 2009, mud, gravel and pebbles were found in his 13-seat helicopter VT-RCL's
(a Bell 412) gearbox.[5] Despite the gear box being located at a height of 10 feet from the ground, the gravel
and pebbles were put in the filler cap in the gear box. A senior pilot ofReliance Transport and Travels Pvt.
Ltd., Captain RN Joshi filed a complaint with the Mumbai Police Commissioner's office, Maharashtra Chief
Minister's office, Maharasthra Home Minister's office, Chief Secretary's office, Joint Commissioner of Police's
office and also at the Santa Cruz Police Station.

The helicopter was standing outside a hangar at the Mumbai Airport when the sabotage was found by Bharat
Borge, a technician for Air Works. Borge was found dead on April 28, 2009 on Mumbai's suburban railway
tracks between Vile Parle and Andheri. A letter was also found with him. Railway Police believes that he might
have been run over by the Churchgate-bound fast-local. "Borge's mysterious death created a flutter, lending
credence to Anil Ambani's charge that certain 'rival business groups were trying to eliminate him'. " [6][7]

The post-mortem conducted on Bharat Borge revelated that he died of shock due to multiple fractures, resulting
in brain haemorrhage.[8]There was also a letter found in his pocket written in Marathi saying "I haven't done
anything wrong. That day, some Reliance people came and spoke to me. I didn't tell them anything. One of
them took my number and said that he'll talk to me later. I felt they were using me. I am writing this letter after
thinking all night. It looks like the blame will be on me. I think the investigation is on the right track and truth will
emerge soon."[8]
Investigators later said that Borge's death was an accident and not suicide. [9]

Airworks India Engineering Pvt. Ltd., the company that maintains the helicopter, was questioning its employees
in the case.[10