{"id":541636,"date":"2026-03-15T08:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541636\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:52:20","slug":"mumbai-indians-get-ready-for-ipl-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541636\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai Indians get ready for IPL 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most decorated T20 teams in history, the Mumbai Indians have begun their preparations for the new IPL season. Head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/mahela-jayawardene-49289\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mahela Jayawardene<\/a> was part of the team&#8217;s many arrivals as the five-time champions go into a training camp ahead of their first game, against Kolkata Knight Riders at Wankhede stadium on March 29.<\/p>\n<p>Several of their players were spotted in a video on the MI Instagram page, including legspinner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/mayank-markande-1081442\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayank Markande<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/raghu-sharma-1122621\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raghu Sharma<\/a>, who was brought on a a replacement player for Vignesh Puthur last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/naman-dhir-1287032\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naman Dhir<\/a>, who made 252 runs at a strike rate of 182.60 in IPL 2025 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/danish-malewar-1421992\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danish Malewar<\/a>, a top-order batter who is one for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Mumbai won eight out of their 14 matches last season and made it to Qualifier 2 where they were beaten by Punjab Kings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most decorated T20 teams in history, the Mumbai Indians have begun their preparations for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-541636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}