Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians will be representative of the city of Mumbai in the Indian Premier League. The team will be led by Sachin Tendulkar, also the Icon Player for the team and coached by Lalchand Rajput, the former Manager of the Indian Cricket Team.

Reliance Industries Limited through its subsidiary Reliance Retail Ltd purchased the rights for the Mumbai franchise of Indian Premier league for a total of $111.9 million during the auction on January 24, 2008. The RIL bid has made the Mumbai Indians the most expensive franchise in IPL.Current Squad

Batsmen

No.	Name	Age	Nationality	Batting Style	Bowling/Fielding	Bidding/Sign-in Price
1	Sachin Tendulkar (Captain) ♠	35	India	Right-handed	Right-arm Off-break/Leg break/Medium	US$ 1,121,250 (Icon Player) ♠
2	Sanath Jayasuriya	37	Sri Lanka	Left-handed	Left-arm orthodox spin	US$ 975,000
3	Robin Uthappa	22	India	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	US$ 800,000
4	Loots Bosman	30	South Africa	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	US$ 175,000
5	Ashwell Prince	30	South Africa	Left-handed	Left-arm orthodox spin	US$ 175,000
6	Ajinkya Rahane	19	India	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Catchment Area Player
7	Manish Pandey	18	India	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break	India Under-19 Team
8	Saurabh Tiwary	18	India	Left-handed		India Under-19 Team

Wicket Keepers

No.	Name	Age	Nationality	Batting Style	Bowling/Fielding	Bidding/Sign-in Price|-
1	Luke Ronchi	26	Australia	Right-handed	Wicket keeper	Unknown[3]
2	Yogesh Takawale	23	India	Right-handed	Wicket keeper	Catchment Area Player
3	Pinal Shah	20	India	Right-handed	Wicket keeper	Under 22 Player

All Rounders

No.	Name	Age	Nationality	Batting Style	Bowling/Fielding	Bidding/Sign-in Price|-
1	Shaun Pollock	35	South Africa	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	US$ 550,000
2	Abhishek Nayar	24	India	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	Catchment Area Player

Bowlers

No.	Name	Age	Nationality	Batting Style	Bowling/Fielding	Bidding/Sign-in Price
1	Harbhajan Singh	27	India	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break	US$ 850,000
2	Lasith Malinga	24	Sri Lanka	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	US$ 350,000
3	Dilhara Fernando	29	Sri Lanka	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	US$ 150,000
4	Ashish Nehra	28	India	Right-handed	Left-arm fast-medium	Delhi – Ranji Trophy Player

Administration and Coaching staffFront Office:

• Owner – Reliance Industries Limited
• CEO – R Balachandran
• President – Mukesh Ambani

Coaches:

• Head Coach – Lalchand Rajput
• Assistant Head Coach – TBA
• Physiotherapist – TBAIPL Mumbai 2008 Season
  

  No.	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result
  1	20 April	Bangalore Royal Challengers	Mumbai
  2	23 April	Chennai Super Kings	Chennai
  3	25 April	Kings XI Punjab	Mohali
  4	27 April	Deccan Chargers	Mumbai
  5	29 April	Kolkata Knight Riders	Kolkata
  6	4 May	Delhi DareDevils	Mumbai
  7	7 May	Rajasthan Royals	Mumbai
  8	10 May	Bangalore Royal Challengers	Bangalore
  9	14 May	Chennai Super Kings	Mumbai
  10	16 May	Kolkata Knight Riders	Mumbai
  11	18 May	Deccan Chargers	Hyderabad
  12	21 May	Kings XI Punjab	Mumbai
  13	24 May	Delhi DareDevils	Delhi
  14	26 May	Rajasthan Royals	Jaipur

Mumbai cricket team

The Mumbai cricket team is a cricket team representing the city of Mumbai in Indian domestic cricket. It is the most successful team in the Ranji Trophy, India’s top domestic cricket competition, with 37 titles, the most recent being in 2006-07. The team’s home ground is the Wankhede Stadium in South Mumbai, near Churchgate railway station, Mumbai. The team comes under the West Zone designation. It was formerly known as the Bombay cricket team, but changed when the city was officially renamed from Bombay to MumbaiMumbai is one of three teams located in the state of Maharashtra (the others being the Maharashtra cricket team and the Vidarbha cricket team), and have always competed as a separate team from the rest of the state. Despite this division which would normally weaken most teams, Mumbai have become India’s most successful domestic team.

Bombay won the first-ever Ranji Trophy competition in 1934-35 with Vijay Merchant starring in the final against Northern India. The title was retained the following season with a victory over Madras in the final. Bombay quickly showed themselves to be one of the strongest teams in the competition with 7 victories in the first 20 seasons of the Ranji Trophy.

However, it was during this period that their dominance was at its zenith. From 1955-56 to 1976-77, Bombay won 20 out of 22 titles including 15 in a row from 1958-59 to 1972-73. Bombay continued to regularly reach the Ranji Trophy final up to the mid 1980s.

The later half of the 1980s was Bombay’s least successful period with no final appearances in 5 consecutive seasons. However, they were able to regain some of their former glory from the 1990s onwards winning an additional 6 Ranji Trophies from 1993-94 to 2003-04 under the new name of Mumbai.

In 2006-07, Mumbai won their 37th Ranji Trophy with victory over Bengal in the final at Wankhede Stadium. This win was particularly memorable as the team had recovered from the setbacks of losing their first three games, and being reduced to 0/5 in the semi-final against Baroda.

Mumbai’s dominance of the Ranji Trophy has led to many consecutive appearances in the Irani Trophy with much success including 15 wins. However, they have failed to beat the Rest of India team since 1998.

The team is known for its batting and spin bowling and has produced many of the Indian cricket team’s top batsmen over the years. Some of the players who have appeared in the national team include:

• Ajit Agarkar
• Pravin Amre
• Sairaj Bahutule
• Sameer Dighe
• Sunil Gavaskar
• Karsan Ghavri
• Wasim Jaffer
• Vinod Kambli
• Nilesh Kulkarni
• Abey Kuruvilla
• Vijay Hazare
• Sanjay Manjrekar
• Ashok Mankad
• Vinoo Mankad
• Vijay Merchant

• Sudhir Naik
• Suru Nayak
• Chandrakant Pandit
• Sandeep Patil
• Lalchand Rajput
• Balwinder Sandhu
• Dilip Sardesai
• Rohit Sharma
• Ravi Shastri
• Eknath Solkar
• Sachin Tendulkar
• Polly Umrigar
• Dilip Vengsarkar
• Ramesh Powar
• Zaheer Khan Current squad2006-07 Ranji Trophy Super League squad ^[1]
  • Amol Muzumdar (c)
  • Ajit Agarkar
  • Swapnil Hazare
  • Sahil Kukreja
  • Nilesh Kulkarni
  • Vinayak Mane
  • Sushant Marathe
  • Wilkin Mota
  • Mudeep Mungela
  • Abhishek Nair
  • Ramesh Powar
  • Vinayak Samant (wk)
  • Hiken Shah
  • Rohit Sharma
  • Bhavin Thakkar
  • Rajesh Verma
  • Kshemal Waingankar
  • Sachin Tendulkar
  • Zaheer Khan
  • Ajinkya RahaneThe Mumbai Cricket Team is led by the Mumbai Cricket Association, which has established its home ground the Wankhede Stadium, an international cricket ground. The President of the Mumbai Cricket Association, Sharad Pawar, is also president of the BCCI.

You won’t see this 92 years from today

Making out at Bandra Bandstand, sitting at Gateway, going to work at BKC will not be possible as these and other parts of city will sink under the sea, says alarmist Greenpeace report
Doomsday 2100: A sizeable chunk of Mumbai will go under water. This includes Bandra Bandstand, Girgaum Chowpatty, Gateway of India, Parsi Gymkhana at Marine Drive, parts of Bandra-Kurla Complex, Juhu aerodrome, parts of Essel World and Mira road-Bhayander will disappear beneath the Arabian Sea because of rising sea levels due to global warming.

This is the apocalypse scenario painted by Greenpeace, an environmental activist group involved in the issues of climate change across the world.

Reality check:  Government experts scoff at the predictions. “In the last 30 years, the sea level has risen by only a few millimeters. Such a scenario is impossible.

At the most, high risk areas will only be the mangrove regions and even in that case, only a part of the land will be submerged,” said Dr R V Sarma, in-charge, Mumbai, National Institute of Oceanography.

The report says that a potential increase in temperatures by 4 to 5 degrees will mean a corresponding rise in sea levels by up to five metres in 2100.

Titled, ‘Climate migrants in South Asia: Estimates and Solutions’ it was prepared by Prof Sudhir Chella Rajan of the humanities department at IIT, Chennai.

“If we wait until a situation like this occurs, then all the money pumped in won’t be able to reverse it ,” said Brikesh Singh, climate campaigner, Greenpeace.

Greenpeace activists will be slapping token eviction warning notices on the doors of structures that may be affected including Shah Rukh Khan’s home Mannat, Rekha and Farhan Akhtar’s homes.

The report will be tabled at the Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh, CST, at 12 noon today.

Mumbai Meri Jaan team does not want to alarm you. This is only a report of the Greenpeace findings.

PIL puts focus back on rail mishaps

With more than 8,000 people getting killed or injured on railway tracks over the last 12 months, a PIL has been filed in the Bombay high court on the rising number of fatalities on the city’s suburban lines, which carry over 6.1 million passengers every day.
   The PIL has come more than three years after the high court ordered Central Railway (CR) and Western Railway (WR) to ensure that accident victims were taken to the nearest hospital within the “golden hour’’ period—the first 60 minutes after the occurrence of multi-system trauma.
   The petition is scheduled to come up before the division bench of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar later this week.
   Filed in the first week of March by Pydhonie resident Sameer Zaveri, who had lost both his legs in a train accident a few years ago, the petition contended little had changed since then. “Over the last decade, accidents on railway tracks shot up by 53%, from 5,304 in 1997 to 8,244 in 2007,’’ claimed Zaveri.
   More worrying, according to the petitioner, is the fact that the mortality rate since the 2004 HC order has hovered between 47% and 51%—not much of a change from the figures before the judgment.
   Of the 8,244 people who met with accidents on the tracks in 2007, around 3,937 died (see box). “Many of those who die are youths in the age group of 20-30,’’ said the petitioner, pointing to media reports on such seriously injured victims not being taken to the nearest hospital because of the dearth of medical facilities or porters.
   According to the PIL, a number of people were killed while trying to cross the tracks. This constitutes 20% of the total.
   “A major reason behind the accidents, classified as ‘untoward incidents’, is massive overcrowding on the suburban network,’’ said the petition.
   According to railway estimates, more than 4,700 people travel in a 9-car rake during peak hours, as against the carrying capacity of 1,700. This causes regular mishaps, with people slipping into the gap between a train and a platform, getting smashed against the poles along tracks or falling from packed coaches
   Zaveri pointed out that such victims were usually classified as “trespassers’’, depriving the victim or his/her family of proper treatment and compensation. “An accident victim is admitted to the nearest railway or private hospital whereas the trespassers’ are handed over to the Government Railway Police to be taken to a municipal or government hospital,’’ the PIL said.
   Advocate Suresh Kumar, counsel for WR in the earlier PIL filed by orthopaedic surgeon Dr Sarosh Mehta, said they had already filed a compliance report with regard to the 2004 judgment.
   This is reflected in the statistics, with WR faring better than CR in implementing the high court order and bringing down the number of fatalities.
   While WR has completely eliminated deaths caused by people falling into the gaps between a train and a platform, it has seen a 1% fall in the number of mortalities caused by trespassers trying to cross the tracks. However, the number of mishaps involving passengers falling out of overcrowded trains has gone up.
   None from CR, though, was available for comment.
   Besides seeking implementation of the earlier order, the PIL also urged the court to issue a directive to the railway authorities, asking them to explore the possibility of having doors that operate automatically “to prevent injury to more than 50% of the passengers.’’
   The PIL demanded timely medical care and an end to the discrimination against those classified as trespassers. The other prayers included the shifting of dangerous poles, fencing of tracks, deployment of ambulances with paramedics and resuscitation facilities at all stations. The petitioner also sought heavy penalties on those concerned in the event of the “golden hour’’ rule getting violated.

2004 HC GUIDELINES

Rush accident victims to the nearest hospital—private or government Railways to bear the medical expenses of victims Doctors not to insist on a panchnama A walkie-talkie on every train Open 24-hour telephone helplines to report railway accidents Construct boundary walls and fence railway tracks
Every station should have two lightweight and collapsible stretchers, one rechargeable torch, disposable hand gloves and a first aid box
Allow parking of ambulances and list the details of nearest hospital at stations
Raise the height of platforms, build foot overbridges