Owner: Reliance Industries Ltd

Franchise fee: $111.9 million

Captain: Sachin Tendulkar

2008 Performance:Fifth

Most expensive player: Sachin Tendulkar - $1,121,250

Team Mumbai exemplifies the essence of its home city. The land of a myriad dreams is a melting pot and Mumbai Indians does its best to showcase the same. This franchise is the most expensive in the league and has a fantastic side headed by none other than the Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar who is also its Icon Player. Harbhajan Singh, Robin Uthappa, JP Duminy, Sanath Jayasuriya, Lasith Malinga, Dilhara Fernando, Loots Bosman alongside young talent from Mumbai Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane, Pinal Shah and Yogesh Takawade make up the Mumbai squad balancing youth and experience.

Praveen Amre, who coached Mumbai to their 38th Ranji Trophy title, has been appointed as the coach of the Mumbai Indians for the second season of the Indian Premier League in South Africa. Former Test middle order batsman Amre has replaced ex-India opener Lalchand Rajput as Mumbai Indians coach and will be assisting the squad's chief mentor and bowling coach Shaun Pollock while Jonty Rhodes is the third arm as the fielding coach. Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited owns the team and one can surely look forward to some scintillating performances from the Mumbai Indians in the second edition of the IPL.

Full squad:

International players: Lasith Malinga, Sanath Jayasuriya and Dilhara Fernando (Sri Lanka), Ryan McLaren and JP Duminy (South Africa), Graham Napier (England), Dwayne Bravo (West Indies), Luke Ronchi (Australia), Md. Ashraful (Bangladesh) and Kyle Mills (New Zealand)

Indian players: Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Abhishek Nayar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jude Singh, Jaydev Shah, Raahil Shaikh, Yogesh Takewala, Pinal Shah, Rohan Raje, Chetanya Nande, Ajinkya Rahane and Sourabh Tiwary