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Mumbai Indians, owned by Reliance, have started ticket sales for their home league matches. Mumbai Indians is captained by India’s little master Sachin Tendulkar.
Mumbai will see two matches - one, at the famous Wankhede stadium at Churchgate, and the other at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai.
Sachin Tendulkar is the pride of Mumbai - [...]
April 14th, 2008 | Posted in Mumbai Indians, Schedule | No Comments
The cine stars play an important role in the Indian Premier League (IPL) starting from April 18. There are rumours that Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan is likely to be the brand ambassador of Mumbai Indians, the Indian Premier League team owned by Mukesh Ambani. Industrialist Mukesh Ambani bought the team for $111.9 million.
The speculation is [...]
April 6th, 2008 | Posted in Media / TV, Mumbai Indians | 1 Comment
Chennai Super Kings and Indian ODI/Twenty20 skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been likened to late South African skipper Hansie Cronje by Cronje’s former colleague and Indian team coach Gary Kirsten.
Gary Kirsten said while Test skipper Anil Kumble had earned the respect of team mates, ODI and Twenty20 skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was able to get [...]
March 31st, 2008 | Posted in Bangalore Royal Challengers, Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians | No Comments
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has decided to continue with Robin Singh as fielding coach and Venkatesh Prasad as bowling coach for the South Africa Test series.
After Gary Kirsten took over as coach of Indian team, speculation mounted that both will be axed. The series starts on March 26.
Assistant coach Lalchand Rajput [...]
March 20th, 2008 | Posted in Bangalore Royal Challengers, Controversy, Mumbai Indians, Team Owners | No Comments
Former Indian fast bowler Ashish Nehra has been reportedly bagged by the Mumbai Indians for the DLF IPL Twenty20 tournament for more than a crore rupees. Sachin Tendulkar, Mumbai Indians’ icon player was behind the decision.
Ashish Nehra was not in the list of contracted players.
The lanky fast bowler had practically vanished from public memory. [...]
March 17th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Delhi DareDevils, General, Mumbai Indians | 1 Comment
Chennai IPL’S Matthew Hayden now wants to chat up with Mumbai Indians’ Harbhajan Singh to sort out their differences over remarks they both made during India’s recent tour of Australia.
Matthew Hayden had referred to Harbhajan Singh as an ‘obnoxious little weed’ in a radio interview and Harbhajan Singh had called Matthew Hayden a liar - [...]
March 17th, 2008 | Posted in Chennai Super Kings, Foreign Players, Mumbai Indians | No Comments
Mumbai IPL’s Harbhajan Singh on Monday said he was fit for the South Africa series, though the spinner failed to appear in a fitness test in Bangalore. Harbhajan Singh has been asked to take a fitness test again before the first Test, for which he has been selected, though he would be axed if found [...]
March 17th, 2008 | Posted in Mumbai Indians | No Comments
IPL Mumbai Indians captain Sachin Tendulkar has said he spotted strains in the Australian cricket team during India’s tour Down Under, saying the Aussies were getting defensive, which was uncharacteristic of them.
Though Australia won a controversy-marred Test series 2-1, India defeated Aussies 2-0 in tri-series Commonwealth Bank trophy.
Sachin Tendulkar said the Aussies never withdrew their [...]
March 13th, 2008 | Posted in Controversy, Mumbai Indians | No Comments
Reliance-owned Mumbai IPL team has been named Mumbai Indians and icon player Sachin Tendulkar will be the captain of the team.
Sudarshana Chakra with Mumbai Indians engraved on it will be the team logo and the jersey colour will be the Indian team’s colour- Blue.
Mumbai IPL captain Sachin Tendulkar himself unveiled the logo. Sachin Tendulkar, who [...]
March 10th, 2008 | Posted in Mumbai Indians | 3 Comments
Mumbai IPL’s Harbhajan Singh is in trouble again for his reported comments against Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist.
Harbhajan Singh had reportedly called Matthew Hayden a liar and said Adam Gilchrist was no saint. However, Harbhajan ha already denied these remarks.
An Australian media report said match referees Mike Procter and Jeff Crowe have asked the BCCI [...]
March 10th, 2008 | Posted in Foreign Players, Mumbai Indians | No Comments