Mumbai Indians: In the history of the Indian Premier League, Mumbai Indians is the first franchise to win five IPL trophies and the only second team to defend their crown in this tournament. MI is also the most successful team in this cash-rich league tournament.
Despite all the good records. Mumbai Indians also have a bad record. The MI franchise has now lost 13 opening matches of an IPL edition. Their latest loss came in this edition of the TATA IPL 2025 edition in their first game versus the Chennai Super Kings at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Sunday.
Every team who plays any IPL or ICC event look to start their campaign with a win, so that they can take that confidence forward. But Mumbai Indians is a franchise team, who thinks differently. In the 18th edition as well, MI kept their tradition alive as a slow starter side of the long event.
Over the years in the IPL, we have teams who have made it to the top four or the finals even after they lost a few opening matches of this T20 tournament. Mumbai Indians is the team who have lost the opening matches. But they have made it to the finals and even went on to win that year’s tournament.
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In 2012, Mumbai Indians Won Their Last Opening Match Of An IPL Edition –
The five-time champions, Mumbai Indians won their opening match of an IPL tournament in 2012. That time, Harbhajan Singh led the side in the game against their old rivals, Chennai Super Kings in Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium.
This match which Mumbai Indians won was the first match of the IPL 2012 edition. CSK batted first and managed to score just 112 runs on the board. The Yellow Army was restricted to that score mainly because of the brilliant bowling done by the Blue Army.
Then it was a mere formality for Mumbai Indians to chase that score down. Richard Levi was the top scorer for the MI side. He scored a well-made half-century and Mumbai Indians won that game by eight wickets.
The 2012 win in the opening match was the last one for the Mumbai Indians and since then they have been on a 13-match losing streak in the Indian Premier League, which is the most by any team till now.
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