Mumbai Indians – MI – IPL team Achievements & History

About Mumbai Indians

The Mumbai Indians are one of the teams that compete in the IPL and T20 matches. The team has won five matches and is one of the teams winning the most IPL winning titles. The MI is based on the Maharashtra Mumbai fans. The team was founded on 24 January 2008, about 16 years ago. The name of the coach of the team is Mark Boucher. The team’s current captain is Hardik Pandya, but the team’s previous captain was Rohit Sharma, known for his excellent batting skills. The maximum capacity of the team is 33100. Indiawin Sports Private Limited owns the team. Check Out:- Virat Kohli

History of the Mumbai Indian team

In September, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced that the Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 competition, would start in 2008. In January 2008, the BCCI revealed the owners of eight city-based teams based in different cities. Reliance Industries LTD (RIL) bought Mumbai Indians teams for $111.9 Millions. During that auction, Mukesh Ambani acquired the rights to the team of Mumbai Indians for a period of 10 years.

The Indian Premier League stated the four players as icon players for their city-based teams, making the players very busy and unavailable to play for any team other than their city team. Sachin Tendulkar was the Icon player for the Mumbai Indian team.

The icon player also earned 15% more than the next-best-paid player in their team. At first player auctions for the initial IPL season established in February 2008, the Mumbai team got several star international cricketers such as Sanath Jayasuriya, Harbhajan Singh, Shaun Pollock, Lasith Malinga and Robin Uthappa. 

The team based in Maharashtra named Sachin Tendulkar as the captain and bought former India cricketer Lalchand Rajput as the head coach. Unfortunately, Tendulkar was injured before the start of the 2008 season, which was the reason that Harbhajan Singh took responsibility as the captain in the initial stage of the season. 

The team was in a bad condition and had a bad start in the season, losing their first four games. Their first match was a 5-wicket defeat against the RCB on 20 April 2008 at the Wankhede. Their stand-in captain, Harbhajan, got suspended because of his irrelevant behaviour as he slapped a decision during the match. 

During that time, the match was against Kings XI Punjab. After Harbhajan’s suspension, Shaun Pollock took the captaincy until Sachin Tendulkar returned. In supervision of Pollock’s or his captaincy, Mumbai got victory for six out of their next six games, which forced them to win two more out of the rest of  four tournaments to qualify for the semi-finals. 

Before winning their last league match, Mumbai suffered three last-over defeats in the next three games, including two off the last ball. They finished fifth in the points table with seven wins and seven losses, missing a semi-final spot by just one point.

Progress of Mumbai Indians

During the 2010 players auction, Mumbai Indians bought or featured Trinidadian all-rounder Kieron Pollard for $750,000, which was the turning point for their team. After this auction, they featured ten newcomers Indian players. Out of 10, 7 were the ICL players. The ordinary cricketer of India Known for his average performance Robin Singh was the head coach of the team while Pollock got the role of bowling coach. Mumbai shifted their home match stadium to Brabourne Stadium for that season after that the Wankhede was undergoing some necessary changes.

Mumbai won 7 matches wonderfully out of eight to secure the top place in the points table. The success of the team was mainly because of the unforgettable efforts of Tendulkar, Malinga, Harbhajan, Ambati Rayudu, and Saurabh Tiwary. They got victory over three of the remaining six league games. They defeated the Royal Challengers Bangalore by 35 runs in the semi-final, all credit goes to Pollard’s all-rounding efforts (33* from 13 balls and 3/17). In the final, they lost the match by the Chennai Super Kings by 22 runs. Sachin Tendulkar, who scored 618 runs at an average of 47.53 and has a strike rate of 132.6, got the prestige of having the Orange Cap for scoring the most runs in the season.

The popular culture of Mumbai Indians

During the year 2019 Netflix displayed a documentary or series named as Cricket Fever: based on Mumbai Indians, the journey of this Mumbai franchise team was displayed. This was the first sports-related show from India to be produced by Netflix and the first IPL side featured in a documentary. This was a great privilege for the team because they were the ones on which Netflix displayed the first sports show.

Sponsors of Mumbai Indians

MasterCard was the official sponsor for the team MI, the company based in America under Multinational Company, which included much stuff. On the other hand, Adidas was their official apparel sponsor until 2014.

While the UAE’s national carrier, Etihad Airways, signed a contract with the UAE that allowed it to sponsor the Mumbai Indian team for about three years. In 2015, Performax, the in-house brand of Reliance Trends, took the responsibility of sponsoring the Mumbai Indians team.

Multiple brands invested as a sponsorship to MI, the companies name are Royal Stag, Air India, Bridgestone, Kingfisher, Hero MotoCorp and many more.

The team is one of the biggest and most famous teams and has been known for its incredible performances, so every time, many companies and industries invest and sponsor the team to get to profit.

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Fans reaction to Hardik being captain 

Many of the fans of Rohit Sharma and Mumbai Indians were trolling and even now giving nasty comments to Hardik Pandya. They think he does not deserve to be the captain, and Rohit should continue the captaincy. In the matches, many people say no to Hardik and other comments while the matches also. On social media, many videos prove that people are trolling him and cannot accept him as captain.

Identity of the team Mumbai Indians 

The team’s slogan is “Duniya Hila Denge Hum” If we translate it into English, it is “We will rock the world. The first anthem of Mumbai Indians was based on this slogan, wherein the Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan was signed for a promotional video campaign.

The logo of the Mumbai franchise team is the Sudarshan Chakra (or Razor). Initially, the team’s name was “Mumbai Razors” before Sachin Tendulkar suggested keeping the name as Mumbai Indians.

Conclusion 

This article will teach you about the excellent team of IPL and T20 Mumbai Indians. You will learn about its history, identity, progress, and personal details. You will learn how the team has the prestige to have the most IPL-winning titles.

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