MUMBAI INDIANS OFFICIAL THREAD
Mumbai Indians (Marathi: मुंबई इंडियन्स), is a franchise cricket team representing Mumbai in the Indian Premier League. The team is one of the eight founding members of the IPL in 2008. Mumbai Indians are currently led by Harbhajan Singh, and is coached by Robin Singh. They are one of the main teams in the city, together with clubs like the Mumbai cricket team and football club Mumbai FC. The team is owned by India's biggest conglomerate, Reliance Industries, through its 100% subsidiary IndiaWin Sports.Mumbai Indians is ranked no.2 in IPL with a brand value of $57.13 million in season four of IPL after Chennai Super Kings (who are the no.1 with brand value of $70 million).[3]. The team is also one of the strongest teams on paper in the Indian Premier League (IPL).[4]
IPL 2011 group fixtures
Each team in the IPL 2011 will play 14 games in total, which adds up to 70 group games for the entire league. The ten teams have been divided up into two groups of five teams each. Each team would thus be playing 1) home and away matches with the remaining four teams in its group, 2) a home and away match with one randomly chosen team from the other group and 3) one match each with the remaining four teams of the other group (two of these four matches at home and two away). However, this division into groups will not have any relationship to the points table, which would be compiled together for all ten teams, and from which the top four teams will qualify for the next round of matches.[9] The Mumbai Indians got off to a flying start by defeating Delhi Daredevils and restricting them to a meagre total of 95,courtesy of Malinga's 5 wicket haul. They then won their next game against Royal Challengers Bangalore with considerable ease. In their 3rd game they lost to the Kochi Tuskers Kerala despite scoring 185 odd runs. They got back to winning ways with wins over Pune Warriors India and the Chennai Super Kings, during which Harbhajan Singh took a 5 wicket haul and Rohit Sharma scoring a stunning 87 of 48 balls. Next they defeated Deccan Chargers with a fantastic stand of 102 from Rohit Sharma and Andrew Symonds after going from 70-1 to 70-4.
IPL Season 2011 had given the privilege for all team to restructure their contracts with respect to their squad change after completing a three year phase. Mumbai Indians introduces Aiden Blizzard, a hard-hitting Australian batsman and James Franklin, an all rounder from New Zealand. The team lead by Sachin Tendulkar had a good start, by comfortably winning their first two matches against Delhi Daredevils by 8 wickets and Royal Challengers Bangalore by 9 wickets. Sachin Tendulkar once again shown its impressive performance this IPL season, scoring 513 runs from 10 matches played and Lasith Malinga was the best bowler that season, taking 28 wickets from 15 matches played. Mumbai Indians has been the most balanced team of this IPL season winning 10 matches out of 15 played and has been at no.1 position in points table for long. James Franklin helped Mumbai Indians in beating Kolkata Knight Riders by 7 wickets on 22 May with a vital contribution of 45 runs off 23 balls, helped Mumbai Indians qualify for the Qualifiers at 3rd spot ahead of Kolkata Knight Riders. On 25 May in the eliminator round, Kolkata Knight Riders put a modest total of 147 in 20 overs and with the Sachin Tendulkar - Aiden Blizzard opening duo gave a blazing start to the Mumbai Indians innings, putting on 81 runs in 7.5 overs to set the platform and James Franklin unbeaten at 29 runs led Mumbai Indians for the victory by 4 wickets fixing a spot in the Playoff against Royal Challengers Bangalore. It was the second consecutive season the Mumbai Indians reached the semi finals. Mumbai Indians lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore by 43 runs in the playoffs for the final.[10] Chennai Super Kings eventually won the IPL season four by defeating RCB.in 2011
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