Known to be one of the eight founding members of the IPL in 2008, Mumbai
Indians is the franchise cricket team that represents the financial capital of
India, Mumbai. Being one of the main teams in the city, along with football
club Mumbai FC and the Mumbai cricket club, the team is owned by India’s
largest conglomerate Reliance Industries- through its 100% subsidiary IndiaWin
Sports.
Known to be one of the most successful
players in the IPL, Rohit Sharma has a unique record of ending each match by
scoring a six. Other than this, Rohit Sharma is also known for having scored an
IPL century. This right-handed batsman and
occasional right-arm off break bowler is known to have been the
leading run scorers in the 2008 IPL season.
In
2009, in the IPL season he was appointed as the Vice-Captain of the Deccan
Chargers. He was also briefly coveted the Orange Cap, which is an achievement
awarded to the best batsman of the IPL. It was then, that he was awarded the
IPL hat-trick, being the fifth bowler to bag this. He was later awarded as the
best U-23 player of the tournament.
The Mumbai Indians (MI) bought Sharma in
the 2011 IPL for USD 2 million. It was then that he was later promoted to serve
as the permanent captain of Mumbai Indians in the 2013 season, as Ricky Ponting
was benched because of poor form. However, under his captaincy, Mumbai Indians
won the IPL for the first time. In addition to this, he also helped the team to
win the Champions League T20 in 2013.
This IPL 7, to be held in April 2014 Mumbai
Indians made it a point to retain five key players; Rohit Shama, Harbhajan
Singh, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga and Ambati Rayudu. Rohit and Pollard are
well-known to be skippers, while Ambati
Rayudu is a talented batsman who
can also double up as a wicketkeeper, Harbhajan
Singh is a
senior off-spinner and Lasith Malinga is a quick bowler.
Former
captain of IPL team, Mumbai Indians, Harbhajan Singh- a specialist bowler
is known for holding the record of having the second-highest number of Test
wickets by an off-spinner. Bhajji, (as he is fondly called by his fans, friends
and by the cricketing world) has been involved in the IPL since 2009. Being a
seasoned campaigner for both Mumbai Indians and Team India, this cricketer is
constantly on a mission: to lead his team to IPL title, take wickets and win
his place back in Team India.
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