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Sachin Tendulkar
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History
Reliance Industries Limited purchased the rights for the Mumbai franchise of Indian Premier League for a total of
496 Cr ($ 124
m) during the auction on January 24, 2008. The franchise was eventually
named the Mumbai Indians. The RIL bid made the Mumbai Indians the most
expensive franchise in the 2007 IPL auction till 2010 edition. In 2011
team auction saw the Sahara Pune Warriors bought by Subroto
Roy taking that title worth 1726 Cr ($ 375.2 m).[edit] 2008 IPL season
Main article: 2008 Indian Premier League
The season got off to a bad start
for the Indians, having lost their captain Sachin Tendulkar. With Harbhajan Singh taking over as captain, the team proceeded to
lose their first 4 matches of the tournament. After Harbhajan's
suspension for hitting Sreesanth, Shaun
Pollock assumed the leadership duties until Tendulkar's return on
May 14. His return wasn't a big boost as he kept struggling with the bat
and was poor in the field. He found it difficult to maintain strike
rates of above 100. They were unable to take advantage of his comeback
as they lost 3 of their next 4 games. All these three games were lost on
the last ball of the match. The match between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab played on May 21 was considered to be the
best of the season with Yuvraj Singh diving full length to run out the
MI batsman on the last delivery of the match. The Indians finished with a
record of 7 wins and 7 losses. Sanath Jayasuriya played a vital role in securing two
important wins for the team.Mumbai Indians were the most watched team on television in the first edition of the IPL tournament, totaling to 239 million viewers.[4] After posting a revenue of
69 crore and
expenditure of 85 crore, the
first season left the owners with net loss of INR 16 crore and were
expected to break even in the 2009 season.[5]
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