MUMBAI: The Mukesh Ambani owned IPL franchise Mumbai Indians has added five cricketers - Apoorva Wankhede, Sujit Nayak, Rahul Shukla, Kuldeep Yadav and Sushant Marathe - to their list of players for the fifth season which starts on 4 April.

Shukla returns to Mumbai Indians after being part of the squad for IPL 2010, while the other four have been picked up by the franchise for the first time.

Earlier during the transfer window, the franchise brought in wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik and left arm spinner Pragyan Ojha. During the auction it bought Herschelle Gibbs, Mitchell Johnson, Robin Peterson, RP Singh and Thisara Perera.
 

MUMBAI: IPL franchise Kings XI Punjab has announced that wicket-keeper-cum-batsman Dinesh Karthik has been traded with Mumbai Indians for the coming IPL season in 2012. 

Kings XI Punjab COO Col. Arvinder Singh said, ?Dinesh was an integral part of KXIP last year and displayed an exemplary performance. However, we feel that his talent as a wicket-keeper cannot be harnessed here as we already have a specialist wicket-keeper in our able captain, Adam Gilchrist".

Kings XI Punjab had acquired Dinesh at $900,000 during the auction in 2011 and have traded him with Mumbai Indians for a sum of $2.35 million. "We are also pleased to welcome Rajgopal Satish in to our team and are sanguine that he shall beef up our middle order in the coming season," the IPL team said.