In the 5th match of IPL, Mumbai Indians were against Bangalore Royal Challengers at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Sachin Tendulkar missed the match due to injury and Harbhajan Singh was the captain for them. He won the toss and decided to bat first. The start was not as Mumbai Indians wished to had and they lost the first wicket at team score of 9. Sanath Jayasuriya was the key player and he made 26 before he was run out by Zaheer Khan. Dominic Thornley was retired hurt and then the whole responsibilty was on the shoulders of Robin Uthappa and Pinal Shah who took the score to 97/3 . Pinal Shah was caught by Kohli of Akhil. Soon after Robin Uthappa was stumped by Boucher of Akhil at a personal score of 48. The team score was 125/4 at the end of 16.5 overs

Shaun Pollock came to center and from the very first ball he smashed the bowl to all corners of the ground. Abhishek Nayar played some useful shots before perishing for 20 runs of 14 balls.Zaheer Khan bowled Pollock of the last ball and Mumbai Indians were limited to 165 runs in 20 overs.

Batting Scorecard For Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

Bowling Scorecard Of Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo will join the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) alongside Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar and South African fast bowler Shaun Pollock for the Mumbai Indians.As a result, Bravo is out of the Trinidad and Tobago team for next week’s Carib Challenge Shield Final against Jamaica. Despite the loss, T&T manager Colin Borde feels that the experience Bravo gains in the IPL will benefit the national team in the long run.

“I think everybody is excited for him going up to the IPL and playing with Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Shaun Pollock,” Borde told CCN TV6. “I think it’s good for him and as a Trinidadian you must feel proud…he’s the first guy to get in the IPL.”

The little master Sachin Tendulkar is struggling with his fitness and therefore can be unavailable for the start of the Indian Premier League, which gets under way on Friday.

“I am yet to recover fully from the injury,” he told the Asian Age.He added: “I am a little disappointed that I was not able to play in the two important matches against South Africa.The physiotherapist and the doctor had earlier advised me to rest and now they have given me exercises and I am following their advice.”

Mumbai open their IPL campaign against Bangalore Royal Challenges on Sunday.

Now it was the turn of Mumbai Indians to sign up with a Bollywood star as their brand ambassador and thus they choosed Hrithik Roshan to support them in the Indian Premier League starting on April 18.
“Hrithik symbolises the spirit of the team,” said R Balachandran, director of the newly formed Indiawin Sports — a subsidiary of Reliance Industries which owns the franchise outfit, at a media conference to outline the team’s marketing campaign on Monday.

‘Duniya Hila Denge Hum (Let’s rock the world)’. is the themes song in which junior Roshan ca be seen dancing to the tunes and encouraging the IPL Mumbai team.

Mumbai Indians have got the famous cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle as the advisor for there team. Mumbai’s team of the Indian Premier League (IPL). “We are going to take great care to see that everyone integrates together because people are coming from different places. We have got a lot of youngsters from Maharashtra as well, from Mumbai itself,” said Bhogle.

“We’ll find the result when we get that. I don’t think it’ll be a major problem because luckily the kind of players we have got especially senior players are all fantastic team players,” he added.