It was a source of great ridicule when first announced: Mumbai Indians. What does that name even try to convey? As if the other teams in the Indian Premier League were owned by entities from Korea or Italy.
As the name was used more and more, it became normalised to the point that it did not feel awkward rolling off the tongue. It was so well adopted that MI had teams in other geographies, and even that did not feel wrong to those used to hearing the name over nearly two decades. Of course, it came as a shock to the system where it was implemented.
