Mumbai to host ten IPL ties

Mumbai frachise winners Reliance India Ltd of Mukesh Ambani, will host ten matches, including the two semi finals and final, in the multi-million dollar Indian Premier League set to kick off at Bangalore on April 18.
Reliance Ltd. Has earned the right to host the final and the two semi finals by virtue of having bid the highest (USD 111.9) during the franchise auction which netted the Cricket Board USD 723.6 million, according to IPL sources.
"The bid by Vijay Mallya's UB Group of USD 111.6 m for the Bangalore franchise was the second-best and that's why he has been allotted the League opener on April 18," they said.
With each franchise team playing all other teams once on a home and away basis, the Mumbai franchise owners will be hosting seven ties in the preliminary stage of the tournament plus the three in the knock-out phase, making it ten in all.
IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi today said the Mumbai franchise owners have been given the option of hosting matches at the Cricket Club of India's Brabourne Stadium and the D Y Patil Stadium, in Navi Mumbai.
"I guess they will choose CCI," he said when asked which of the two venues would be preferred for the June 1 final and the two semi finals, slated for May 30 and 31.
The other seven franchise owners - Bangalore (United Breweries), Hyderabad (Deccan Chronicle Group), Chennai (India Cements), Delhi (GMR Group), Kolkata (Red Chillies Entertainment of Shah Rukh Khan and Group), Chandigarh (Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, R Burman and Group) and Jaipur (Emerging Media Group) would host seven matches each in the 44-day, 59-match League

IPL Mumbai

2/21/2008 2:28:49 PM

Mukesh Ambani's IPL Mumbai team

History was made on Wednesday (February 20) as cricket's biggest names were auctioned today at Hilton Towers, Mumbai. A total of 79 players both Indian and international went under the hammer for the multi-million dollar Indian Premier League.

One of the eight teams which feature in this extravagent form of the game is IPL MUMBAI

Owner: Reliance Industries Ltd -- Chairman and Managing director -- Mukesh Ambani, purchased the rights to bag team Mumbai's franchise of the Indian Premier League for US $111.9 million. The auction that was held on January 24, 2008 which saw RIL making Mumbai the most expensive franchise in the league. The players for team Mumbai were purchased for US$ 4,971,250 (Rs 19.88cr)

About owner: Reliance Industries Ltd, is one of India's largest private sector companies. With numerous companies under its brand name, the company was founded by Late Dhirubhai Ambani in 1966. Founded as Reliance Commercial Corporation, severe differnces of opinions between the founder's sons -- Mukhes and Anil Ambani -- divided the group in 2006. Mukesh Ambani -- the Chairman and Managing Director of RIL -- stands by it's slogan 'Growth is Life' and ventured into the T20 league along with other big names in the nation.

Players: The Mumbai IPL team holds an icon player in the form of master blaster Sachin Tendulkar. During the IPL bidding held on Wednesday (February 20, 2008), Mumbai bid for seven players successfully which included even the likes of Robin Uthappa and Harbhajan Singh.


Current Squad

	Player	Price	T20 Statistics Mat Runs HS SR Wkts
	Sachin Tendulkar (India)	Icon Player	5 198 69 166.38 2
	Harbhajan Singh (India)	US$ 850,000 (Rs 3.4cr)	23 92 31 121.05 17
	Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka)	US$ 975,000 (Rs 3.9cr)	14 343 88 159.53 23
	Shaun Pollock (South Africa)	US$ 550,000 (Rs 2.2cr)	22 331 59 149.09 21
	Robin Uthappa (India)	US$ 800,000 (Rs 3.2cr)	18 340 50 124.54 -
	Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka)	US$ 350,000 (Rs 1.4cr)	14 53 27 115.21 13
	Dilhara Fernando (Sri Lanka)	US$ 150,000 (Rs 60lac)	10 24 21 114.28 11
	Loots Bosman (South Africa)	US$ 175,000 (Rs 70lac)	23 679 104 147.93 -