Toss: Mumbai Indians chose to bat first
Result: Mumbai Indians won by four runs.
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Mumbai Indians: 174/3 (Rohit Sharma 79*, Smith 33, Praveen Kumar 1-24)
Rohit Sharma rescued his side with some spectacular death-overs hitting, especially in the final over, when he carted David Hussey for 27 runs. Hussey was trying to fire his offspinners in full and flat, but missed his mark, and Rohit hammered him for 6, 0, 6, Wide, 6, 4 and 4. That onslaught lifted MI from what would have been a passable totale around 160 to a competitve one that KXIP would have to work hard to eclipse.
New Delhi: Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting will lead Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League's sixth edition beginning 3 April.
Sachin Tendulkar was expected to lead the side following Harbhajan Singh's resignation but the team management has gone ahead with Ponting.
Ponting, who retired from international cricket in December, was bought for a base price of $400,000 at the IPL auction held last month.
It's still not official but sources close to the Mumbai Indians have indicated thatVideocon D2H will be the new Mumbai Indians shirt front sponsor.
Videocon d2h is the DTH service provided by the Videocon Group. Videocon Group is an industrial conglomerate with interests all over the world, and is an Indian multinational company.
Firstpost's sources have indicated that it is a done deal.TheMumbai Indianswere looking for a new shirt sponsor after Hero MotoCorp, India's leading two-wheeler manufacturer, decided to stop sponsoring cricket-related events.
New Delhi: IPL franchise Mumbai Indians is among the world's 150 most valuable sports team brands according to a list topped by English football giants Manchester United, which has a brand value of USD 852 millions.
The Mumbai Indians are looking for a new shirt sponsor after Hero, India's leading two-wheeler manufacturer, decided to stop sponsoring cricket-related events.
According to a report in The Times of India, Hero's exit will leave world cricket poorer by around 1200 crore per year. Recently, Hero had signed up as title sponsors of the Hockey India League and also signed a four-year sponsorship deal with the International Hockey Federation to sponsor all their events scheduled in India.
When the Mumbai Indians decided to sign Ricky Ponting for US $400,000 during the latest IPL auction, there was a lot of speculation about what they were really signing on for. The former Australian skipper is 38, no longer thinks he is good enough for international cricket and he only ever played 17 T20I's -- scoring 401 runs at an average of 28.64.
So when the news reached Ponting, he immediately sent Tendulkar a message.
I sent him a message as soon as the auction was over just to say I'm looking forward to playing with him, Ponting told AAP after making an unbeaten 138 for Tasmania at Bellerive. He sent a message straight back saying the same thing. It will be great fun for us to play together.