Mumbai Champs was one of the nine teams played in the defunct Indian Cricket League

Indian Cricket League

The Indian Cricket League was a private cricket league funded by Zee Entertainment Enterprises that operated between 2007 and 2009 in India...

 (ICL). The team is based in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 and its captain is former New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 batsman Nathan Astle

Nathan Astle

Nathan John Astle is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was an attacking batsman who liked to play batting shots such as the cover drive and the pull shot. He also scored the world's fastest Test double century in terms of balls faced. This remarkable innings of 222 was scored in just 168 balls...

.

Players

The squad announced for the inaugural tournament comprises four international cricketers. Nathan Astle

Nathan Astle

Nathan John Astle is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was an attacking batsman who liked to play batting shots such as the cover drive and the pull shot. He also scored the world's fastest Test double century in terms of balls faced. This remarkable innings of 222 was scored in just 168 balls...

, Johan Van der Wath, Tino Best

Tino Best

Tino la Bertram Best is a West Indian cricketer.Short in stature, Tino Best is a fast and aggressive bowler with a bowling average of 48.67 in Test cricket....

, Michael Kasprowicz

Michael Kasprowicz

Michael Scott Kasprowicz is a former Australian Test cricketer. He is a right arm fast bowler, effective outfielder and useful lower order batsman, and has enjoyed a successful career both in Australia and in the English county scene since making his debut for Queensland as a seventeen year old in...

 are amongst the high-profile names playing for the Mumbai Champs.

Former Squad

• Nathan Astle
  Nathan Astle
  Nathan John Astle is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was an attacking batsman who liked to play batting shots such as the cover drive and the pull shot. He also scored the world's fastest Test double century in terms of balls faced. This remarkable innings of 222 was scored in just 168 balls...
  
   (NZ)
• Robin Morris (Mumbai)
• Kiran Powar
  Kiran Powar
  Kiran Powar , is an Indian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler and is the brother of Ramesh Powar. Kiran Powar led the U-19 team that visited Australia in 1994/95 season. The series was lost 2-0 and 2-1...
  
   (Mumbai)
• Shreyas Khanolkar (Mumbai)
• Johan Van der Wath (South Africa)
• Avinash Yadav (Mumbai)
• Subhojit Paul (Kolkata)
• Dheeraj Jadhav
  Dheeraj Jadhav
  Dheeraj Subash Jadhav , is an Indian cricketer who currently plays for Assam. He has represented Mumbai Champs in the Indian Cricket League and Maharashtra in domestic cricket. Although he used to bat in the middle order, he later became a strokeplaying opening batsman which produced immediate...
  
  (Pune)
• Anupam Sanklecha (Mumbai)
• Ranjeet Kirid (Pune)
• Pushkaraj Joshi (Pune)
• Raviraj Patil (Maharashtra)
• Nikhil Mandale (Mumbai)
• Sridher Iyer
• Michael Kasprowicz
  Michael Kasprowicz
  Michael Scott Kasprowicz is a former Australian Test cricketer. He is a right arm fast bowler, effective outfielder and useful lower order batsman, and has enjoyed a successful career both in Australia and in the English county scene since making his debut for Queensland as a seventeen year old in...
  
   (Australia)
• Taufeeq Umar
  Taufeeq Umar
  Taufeeq Umar is a Pakistani cricketer who was a regular Test opening batsman for three seasons, before being dropped ahead of the 2004–05 season. Unusually for a Pakistani player, Umar has played more Tests than ODIs, as he was not given a prolonged run in the ODI side until 2003, when he played...
  
    (Pakistan)
• Hasan Raza
  Hasan Raza
  Hasan Raza is a Pakistani cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. He initially was subject to something of a claim for an international cricketing record, as his debut performance was believed to have taken place at the age of 14 years and 227 days, then a...
  
   (Pakistan)

Coach - Sandeep Patil

Sandeep Patil

Sandeep Madhusudan Patil is a former Indian cricketer, Indian national age group cricket manager and former Kenya national team coach, who made the minnows reach the semi-final of the 2003 World Cup. He was a hard-hitting middle order batsman and an occasional medium pace bowler...

Previous performance

Tournament	Placement
2007 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Indian Championship	6th place
2008 Indian Cricket League 50s	5th place
2008 Indian Cricket League Edelweiss 20s Challenge	6th place
2008 ICL 20-20 Domestic Tournament	5th place
2008 ICL 20-20 Indian Championship, 2008/09	9th place