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Mumbai Indians
IPL (Indian Premier League) launched a franchise of cricket
team named Mumbai Indians representing the Mumbai city. The team is owned by
India’s largest group of industries that is Reliance Industries. The Wankhede
Stadium is the team’s primary stadium in Mumbai. Mumbai Indians is coached by
John Wright and Ricky Ponting from Australian team is its captain. They were
the runners-up team during 2010 season of the IPL against Chennai Super Kings.
That was the best match of its six years career. Sachin Tendulkar was the best
scorer while Lasith Malinga was the best bowler. Nita Ambani is the chief
executive of the franchise Mumbai Indians.
Reliance Industries Limited purchased its rights of Mumbai
Indians franchise legally from the IPL with the highest bid of 496 Cr, that was
the highest bid for any of the franchise from January 24, 2008 till the 2010.
In later aunction 2011 Sahara Pune Warriors was bought by Subroto Roy with
total of 1726 Cr.
During its first season in 2008 their performance was not
satisfactory. They ended up their first season with a record of 7 wins and 7
losses matches. But it was recorded that the Mumbai Indians was the most
watched team of the tournament of IPL with audience of 239 Million and revenue
of 69 Cr. But the expenditures were 85 Cr. So they ended their first season
with net loss of 16 Cr. It was expected to break the team for 2009 season.
Sachin Tendulkar was its first captain during 2008 season.
For 2009 its second season of IPL Mumbai Indians brought
some new players in their team and also exchanged Ashish Nehra with Delhi
Daredevils for Shikhar Dhawan and Robin Uthappa for Zaheer Khan with Royal
CHanllengers. They also bought new players JP Duminy for $950,000 and Kyle
Mills for $150,000 and Mohammad Ashraf for $75000.
But the second season also not satisfied for the owner. As
it also ended up in the bottom two on points table.
2010 was considered their comeback season as they again
purchased and exchanged new players. All the players performed well but Sachin
Tendulkar got the best scorer award of the season with a strike rate of 132.61
and scored 618 runs. He got the orange cap also awarded for the best captain of
the 2010 IPL.
Mumbai Indians played consecutive second semifinal in 2011
and was lost by the Royal Challengers Banglore by 43 runs.
During its fifth season Mumbai Indians had won 10 out of 16
matches in 2012.
The team logo has Sudarshana Chakra with the name of team
that is engraved in it. During 2008-09 the team color was same but later in
2010 golden stripes were introduced. Also on jursey golden stripes were printed
for the new players.
Currently these players are playing IPL from Mumbai Indians:
Rohit Sherma, Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Dinesh
Karthik, Lasith Malinga, Glenn Maxwell, Kieron Pollard, Pragyan Ojha, Munaf
Patel, Ricky Ponting, Mitchell Johnson, James Franklin and Aiden Blizzard.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders, a cricket franchise abbreviated as
KKR, is representing Kolkata in IPL. The team is owned by Red Chillies
Entertainment of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan in a partnership with Mehta
Group that is owned by actress Juhi chawla and her husband Jay Mehta.
In 2008, BCCI launched auction of eight different cricket
franchises in Mumbai where eight teams representing different Indian Cities
were brought for auction in February 2008. A team from city Kolkata was brought
for auction and the bid was won by the Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s company
Red Chillies Entertainment in partnership with Mehta Group for $75.09 million.
Currently the captain of the team is Gautam Gambhir and the
team is coached by Trevor Bayliss, who is a former Australian cricketer. Wasim
Akram is the bowling consultant and instructor of the team. Initially Saurav
Ganguly was the team’s captain and an Icon Player named Bengal Tiger, Dada of
the team for the first three seasons of IPL. The team KKR won first title of
champion of IPL in 2012 by defeating CSK by 5 wicketsat their home ground
Chennai.
The official theme and slogan of the team is Korbo, Lorbo,
Jeetbo Re (we will do it, fight for it). Purple and gold is its official
colors. While the current estimated brand value of KKR is $57.5 million in
2011. During the first three seasons the team performance was not satisfactory
and the team remained controversial and was not good at field. But later from
fourth season it emerged as a new one and played well and started its up
sloping on the performance graph. They won the IPL title for the first time in
2012. The leading batsman is Gautam Gambhir while the best bowler of the team
is Laksjmipathy Balaji. Eden Gardens is the home of Kolkata Knight Riders that
is the largest Indian stadium also included among one of the largest stadiums
of the Asia.
KKR made a good start in 2008, the first season of IPL. They
won 6 out of 14 matches where one match abandoned due to rain. KKR won their
first match against RCB by 140 runs and second against Deccan charges by 5
wickets. But later they had to face failure in four big matches. They could not
qualify for semifinal. The next season in 2009 proved worst for the team as
they had to face defeat in 10 out of 13 matches and drooped at bottom in team
performance chart. They gave a good start in next season of IPL 2010 by winning
two successive matches. This season they made 7 wins and 7 lose by the
percentage of 50%. With a slight improvement they ended up the season by
dropping at 6 out of eight teams.
2011 was a bit better year for the KKR as it was a mixture
of victory and defeat. They won 8 matches and lost 7 and reached the Play offs,
they ended the season by placing at number 4. They also qualified Champions
League T20 2011. The team proved themselves during the IPL season in 2012 by
winning 12 out of 17 matches, one match abandoned due to rain. KKR were the
champions of year 2012 IPL and qualified for 2012 Champions League T20.
Finnish multinational communication corporation- Nokia is
the official brand ambassador of the team KKR and Reebok is their official
appeal sponsor. KKR have 18 highest sponsors among all teams some of the
sponsor include SB Nation. Kitkat, Dish TV. And associate sponsors include
Amity University, Coca Kola, Gitanjali Group and Doublemint.
Team main players include Sourav Ganguly. Chris
Gayle, David Hussey, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Angelo Mathews, Wicket keeper and
batsman Bredon McCullum, Wriddhiman Saha. The leading bowlers include Shane
Bond, Ishant Sherma, Ashok Dinda, Ajit Agerker and Muhali Karthik. in 2012 the
team KKR released four players from the team Iresh Saxena, Chirag Jani, Sanju
Samson and Jaydev Undkat. In 2013 the team brought Sachithra
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