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Mumbai are arguably one of the most successful franchises of the IPL.  It is the only team to have lifted the trophy thrice.

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As they return with all guns blazing as defending champions in the upcoming eleventh edition of the IPL with Rohit Sharma again as their skipper, let's take a look at their strengths and weaknesses  

Strengths

Mumbai managed to keep their core team alive by retaining skipper Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah. 

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They applied the right-to-match (RTM) cards for getting Krunal Pandya and Kieron Pollard at the IPL auction.

All-rounders like Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard and Krunal Pandya form the backbone of the Mumbai squad

Mumbai have their left arm-seamers, Mustafizur Rahman and Pradeep Sangwan who further strengthen the bowling side.  

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Weaknesses:

The team has gone heavy on pace attack but are weak on spin. 

Veteran spinner Harbhajan Singh's exit may cost Mumbai as apart from him there is no other spinner of repute in the bowling line-up

Bowlers like Anukul Roy, Akila Dananjaya and Mayank Markande are untested players in the team, while Rahul Chahar is an experienced IPL player, but he too lacks in multiple departments. 

Here is the complete squad list 

Venue: Wankhede Stadium

Retained:

Rohit Sharma (15 cr)

Hardik Pandya (11 cr)

Jasprit Bumrah (7 cr)

Purchased:

Kieron Pollard (5.4 cr), Mustafizur Rahman (2.2 cr), Pat Cummins (5.4 cr), Suryakumar Yadav (3.2 cr), Krunal Pandya (8.8 cr), Ishan Kishan (6.2 cr), Rahul Chahar (1.9 cr), Evin Lewis (3.8 cr), Saurabh Tiwary (80 L), Ben Cutting (2.2 cr), Pradeep Sangwan (1.5 cr), JP Duminy (1 cr), Jason Behrendoff (1.5 cr), Tajinder Dhillaon (55 L), Sharad Lumba (20 L), Siddhesh Lad (20 L), Aditya Tare (20 L), Mayank Markande (20 L), Akila Dananjaya (50 L), Anukul Roy (20 L), MD Nidheesh (20 L)