Owner: Reliance Industries Ltd
Coach: Shaun Pollock
Captain: Sachin Tendulkar
Star player: Sanath Jayasuriya
Most expensive player: Sanath Jayasuriya - $975,000
Last year: 5th
Odds: 5-1

The 2008 IPL season turned into a horror show for the Mumbai Indians who were expected to make the knock-out stages, They lost captain Sachin Tendulkar with injury before stand-in skipper Harbhajan Singh was suspended after his on-field row with Sree Sreesanth.

South African star Jean Paul Duminy has been brought in and big things are expected of Sanath Jayasuriya once paired up once more with fit-again Tendulkar.

England hopeful Graham Napier will get the chance to prove his worth ahead of the World Twenty20.