The Mumbai Indians is a Indian domestic cricket team, which has the best stats in the history of Champions League Twenty20 as they won the title tow times in 2011 and 2013. Mumbai Indians are also the defending champions of CL T20 2014 but this time they will have to play qualifying round to play in the main fixture of the tournament as they finished in the fourth position of IPL 2014. Rohit Sharma and John Wright are the present skipper and coach of the team respectively. Mumbai Indians mainly represents the Indian city Mumbai in the Indian Premier League.
Key Players
- Corey Anderson: The all-rounder from New Zealand has astonished every cricket fans with his detrimental style of batting, although he failed to perform up to his class in IPL 2014 but he played a great role to help his team to finish in the Champions League T20 position. He can be deadly in this format against any bowling line-up in the world.
- Rohit Sharma: Rohit Sharma the Mumbai Indian skipper played a great knock in the last edition of CL T20 to bring the glory of the most prestigious T20 league for the second time for his side. However, he is struggling a bit to find his form this year but a batsman with such quality can be an asset to a team anytime.
- Lasith Malinga: The Sri Lankan pace bowler is one of the best all-purpose bowlers in the cricketing world, he has won many matches for Mumbai Indian in the slog overs, the way he delivers the yorker, barely any bowlers can do that at present. So, he is the triumph card of MI.
- Lendl Simmons: the west-Indian opening batsman has scored some useful runs for the team in the IPL 2014, he was the main reason MI finished in a good position in the last edition of IPL.
Conclusion
Rohit Sharma as a captain hasn’t been proved his ability yet, so it can be a tough run for Mumbai Indians in CL T20 2014 but overall, they have the champions’ quality within and last year’s performance would also provide them some self-confidence.