Indian Premier League 7th Season 2014: Mumbai Indians Team Analysis

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Indian Premier League 7th Season 2014: Mumbai Indians Team Analysis

Mumbai Indian team is eagerly waiting for IPL 7 to begin and is hoping to defend the title. The team is led by Rohit Sharma and is looking strong with the inclusion of overseas as well as Indian players. Key players of the team include Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu, Pollard, Pollard and others.

Mumbai: Mumbai Indians was the title winner of IPL 6 in 2013. This is one of the teams in the title race along with Kolkata Knight Riders team in the upcoming Indian Premier League 7 that is going to be played in Dubai.

Mumbai Indians team is going to play the seventh season of IPL without Sachin who led the team for six years. Except for the first two seasons the performance of the time was wonderful. There is no dearth of star players in Mumbai Indian team. In the third season, the team lost to Chennai. In the fourth and fifth seasons it reached the play-off stage. In the sixth season, the team won the championship and dedicated the victory to Sachin who was retiring from T20 cricket.

Mumbai Indian will play the seventh season as defending champion and will try to retain the title. The team is ready with necessary strategy for this. The team management retained captain Rohit, Harbhajan, Pollard, Asith Malinga and Ambati Rayudu for this season also. Other important players it bought are Michael Hussey for Rs. 5 crore and Anderson of New Zealand for Rs. 4.5 crore. Team India ex coach John Wright is the coach for Mumbai Indian team and Robin Singh is the assistant coach. Though Sachin is not in the team, he will guide the players.

Key players in Mumbai Indian team are Pollard, Malinga, Santoki, Pragyan Ojha and Harbhajan Singh. Rohit, Ambati Rayudu and Hussey are also important players of the team. Indian players in the team are Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu, Pragyan Ojha, Aditya, Bumrah, Jalaj Saxena, CN Gautam, Pavan Suyal, Susanth, Sreyas Gopal. Foreign players are Lasith Malinga, Pollard, Michael Hussey, Anderson, Josh Hazelwood, Merchant De lange, Krishmar Santokie, Ben Dunk. Looking at the list of players, it can be said that Mumbai Indian seems to be one of the strongest teams in IPL 7. It will be interesting to see how this team will defend its title.