IPL Season 5: Curtain Raiser (Part 2)

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(Indian Premier League or IPL- season 5 is about to begin.  In this series of articles on IPL 5 leading to the tournament, we bring you team overview & compositions, past performances, IPL 5 schedule and much more…)

 

30 Mar 2012: The IPL 5 season has seen some action even before a ball being bowled as some key players are out of the championship due to injuries.  James Hopes of Pune Warriors, Ishant Sharma of Delhi Daredevils, Nathan Rimmington of Kings XI Punjab are out because of injuries. Pune Warriors captain Sourav Ganguly has injured his hamstring but sources say that he will be fit to play by the time Pune play their first game. There were speculations that Mumbai Indians captain Sachin Tendulkar will not play IPL 5 due to a recurring toe injury, but the team management has cleared the doubts with a statement saying that Sachin will be available for the tournament.

 

Pune Warriors India has signed Australia Test and ODI captain Michael Clarke to fill the foreign player slot.  This could benefit PWI as Clarke was in supreme form in Test matches against India.

 

In this series-2 of IPL5 preview, we will bring you the details of Mukesh Ambani owned Mumbai Indians, and Delhi Daredevils.

 

Mumbai Indians

Sachin Tendulkar lead Mumbai Indians has some big names of shorter version games, be it Lasith Malinga, Keiron Pollard or the captain himself.   After Kolkata Knight Riders, Mumbai Indians are the most followed team in the Indian Premeir League.   Last two seasons, the performance of Mumbai Indians have been good.  In 2010 they reached the finals but lost to Chennai Super Kings in the finlas.

 

 

Players like Sachin Tendulkar, Lasith Malinga, Ambati Rayudu, T Suman, Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard, Harbhajan Singh, Munaf Patel make Mumbai Indians a formidable side in the IPL.  They have roped in some very exciting youngster like Richard Levi and Suryakumar Yadav who are big hitters of the ball.  It will be interesting to see how this year’s event goes for them.

 

 

Owner(s)
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd. (IndiaWin Sports Pvt. Ltd.)

 

Squad

 

 

Captain:
Sachin Tendulkar

 

Coach:
Robin Singh

 

Fielding Coach:
Jonty Rhodes

 

Home Ground:
Wankhede Stadium

 

Performance:

 

 

Matches:

 

 

Delhi Daredevils

 

The Delhi Daredevils played well in the first two editions of the IPL.  In 2011 DD performance was the worst as they were stood last amongst ten teams.  Virender Sehwag was Captain of the side in 2008-2009 before stepping out in 2010 to make way to Gautham Gambhir.  When Gautham Gambhir was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders in 2011, Sehwag was made the Captain again.  Lot will depend on Sehwags performance at top of the order this year.

 

                       

 

Delhi has roped in Kevin Pieterson and Mahela Jayawardene this year.  Along with Sehwag, the onus of giving respectability will be on the shoulders of Irfan Pathan, Venugopal Rao, Andre Russel, Morne Morkel, Aaron Finch etc.

 

 

Owners:
GMR Group

 

Squad:

 

 

Captain:
Virender Sehwag

 

Coach:
Eric Simons

 

Home Ground:
Feroz Shah Kotla

 

Performance

 

 

Matches

 

 

 To be continued...