After yesterday’s gala opening ceremony of the fifth session of Indian Premier League, today all the IPL audience is looking forward to enjoy an exciting and breathtaking opening match between 2011 IPL champion Chennai Super Kings and the runner-up team, Mumbai Indians. Only a few hours to go and Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai will be over crowded with huge crowd, all applauding enthusiastically! The match is scheduled to begin at 8PM IST and SET MAX will live telecast the entire match.
Chennai Super Kings will obviously try to maintain its positionfrom the inaugural match to set a hat-trick record in this IPL. Led by Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, this Chennai team will start its 2012 IPL campaign against the second strongest team of IPL. The home ground is an additional advantage for the team to ensure a successful beginning in this league. This team has a good batting line up with some of the striking batsmen like Suresh Raina, M. Vijay and S. Badrinath along, Ravindra Jadeja who is a new addition in this IPL.
With few additions and changes in the team, 2011 runner up Mumbai team, on the other side is ready to accept any challenge from Chennai team. After Sachin Tendulkar relinquished his position as captain of Mumbai Indians yesterday, Harbhajan Singh has become the team leader. With 100 international centuries, Sachin is ready to explode in this IPL to bring the maiden IPL champion title for his team. With an array of striking batsmen like Sachin Tendulkar, Herschelle Gibbs, RP Singh and Kieron Pollard, this team also has a good bowling line up with bowlers like Lasith Malinga, Munaf Patel and Harbhajan Singh.
Here is the final list of players for both the teams:
Chennai Super Kings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Abhinav Mukund, Ganapathi Vignesh, Joginder Sharma, Kuthethur Vasudevadas, Murali Vijay, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati, Srikkanth Anirudha, Subramaniam Badrinath, Sudeep Tyagi, Suresh Raina, Vijaykumar Yo Mahesh, Wriddhiman Saha, Albie Morkel, Ben Hilfenhaus, Doug Bollinger, Dwayne Bravo, Francois Du Plessis, George Bailey, Michael Hussey, Nuwan Kulasekara, Scott Styris, Suraj Randiv.
Mumbai Indians: Harbhajan Singh (capt), Sachin Tendulkar, Abu Nechim Ahmed, Aditya Tare, Ambati Rayudu, Dhawal Kulkarni, Dinesh Karthik, Munaf Patel, Pawan Suyal, Pragyan Ojha, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Sushant Marathe, Tirumalasetti Suman, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal, Rudra Pratap Singh, Aiden Blizzard, Clint McKay, Davy Jacobs, James Franklin, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Herschelle Gibbs, Mitchell Johnson, Robin Peterson, Thisara Perera, Amitoze Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Rahul Shukla, Sujit Nayak, Apporv Wankhade, Jaydev Shah, Richard Levi.
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