Former New Zealand Captain and Indian cricket team coach John Wright will play a vital role as Mumbai Indians Head Coach for the sixth edition of IPL. This will be Wright’s first coaching stint with an IPL team. His cricketing knowledge and experience will be of enormous help to the team.

John Wright was certainly one of the most widely respected coaches of the Indian cricket team. He made his international debut in 1978 against England. Wright was a prolific run-scorer in domestic cricket with more than 25,000 first-class runs that included 50-plus half centuries. He scored over 5,000 Test runs at an average of 37.82 runs per dismissal with 12 Test centuries, 10 of them in New Zealand. 

Post his retirement from all forms of cricket in 1993, Wright took up coaching with the Kent County Cricket Club, before being entrusted with the job in the Indian national team. As India’s coach, he brought about immense improvements and set high standards for the team. He enjoyed a successful coaching career from 2000-2005 in the Indian camp. 

Wright enjoyed a successful coaching career with India, from 2000 to 2005, during which time the team improved immensely, winning a home test-series 2-1 against Australia (which included the historic Kolkata test which India won coming back from a follow-on with Indian batsman VVS Laxman making 281*), drawing a test series against Australia in Australia 1-1 in a four-match test series in 2003-04 (Steve Waugh's farewell test series), winning a series against arch-rivals, Pakistan, and reaching the final of the 2003 Cricket World Cup held in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya.

Wright was also appointed as coach of the World XI team that played Australia in the ICC Super Series 2005. In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, Wright was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to cricket.

All-rounder Jonathan Neil Rhodes, Advisor-cum-Fielding Coach of Mumbai Indians, is a legendary South African cricketer who has earned a reputation for being the best fielder in the world, apart from making notable contributions in the departments of batting and bowling. Jonty is known to leap like a salmon at every ball that comes any where in his vicinity and nobody has ever fielded better than him in the key one-day position of backward point. He is also known for his extraordinary hockey skills, which led to his selection for the Olympic Games in 1996, an offer he had to refuse.

As far as batting goes, few batsmen have turned the quick single into a finer art form. Jonty is a very popular cricketer in South Africa and has more endorsements than any team-sport player in South Africa's history. He is also at the forefront of the sporting dotcom revolution, and is constantly exploring the boundaries and horizons of commerce.

Paul Chapman is the Mumbai Indians Strength and Conditioning Coach and is responsible for the physical preparation of players throughout the tournament. Paul has extensive experience having previously worked in the position of Head Strength and Conditioning Coach with the BCCI National Cricket Academy and the Bangladesh National Cricket Team. 

He currently works with the New South Wales cricket team in Australia and is a Director of Cricket Specific Fitness. Paul holds a Bachelor of Physical Education, Graduate Diploma of Sports Nutrition and a Masters of Exercise Science (Strength and Conditioning) along with numerous industry qualifications. Paul has long had an affinity for India having worked with many past and present cricketers and is excited to call Mumbai home.

CKM Dhananjai's primary role with the Mumbai Indians is to capture information from video and data, and convert that into intelligence to drive strategy. Dhananjai represents Sports Mechanics, a Sports Technology firm, which is renowned for adding value, and for implementing Sports E-learning projects on a turnkey basis. Sports Mechanics has a dedicated team of analysts who help the coaches in providing valuable information to the team using cutting-edge technologies.

Dhananjai was a part of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) High Performance Program in 2005. He has trained coaches on use of technology for the ICC HPP, Asian Cricket Council (ACC), MRF Pace Foundation and the National Cricket Academy (NCA). He has been the Performance Analyst for the Indian cricket team since 2007. Dhananjai has been a part of Mumbai Indians since the very first season, and "loves the city, its identity and intensity."