India, May 11 -- For 13 consecutive seasons, between 2013 and 2025, Mumbai Indians lost their opening game of every single Indian Premier League campaign.

Quirky Fact 2: Despite that, they embarked on a spectacular title-winning run, lifting the trophy a whopping five times in eight years, between 2013 and 2020.

Quirky Fact 3: Even though he led the team to Qualifier 2 in the 2023 season, where Mumbai lost to Gujarat Titans, Rohit Sharma was stripped of the captaincy despite the fact that he was India's all-format skipper at the time.

The last of these developments was influenced by the Mumbai leadership group's 'vision' for the future, a vision that entailed getting prodigal son Hardik Pandya back from Gujarat Titans, where the Baroda...