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After much controversy and doubt over the second edition of Indian Premier League, IPL is finally going to begun as 1st and inaugural match of the 2009 season will be played between last years runner-up Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians on Saturday, 18th April, 2009 at Cape Town from 12.30 PM local time, 10.30 GMT and 4.00 PM IST.

Chennai Super Kings is looking to start with a win and they are strong after the addition of England all rounder Andrew Flintoff and Mathew Hayden will play his 1st natch after retirement along with Dhoni, Raina and Muralitharan.

Mumbai Indians after unsuccessful 1st season and in form Sachin Tendulkar trying to change the perseption. Zaheer Khan's availabilty and Harbhajan's form will be the key factor along with Duminy's and Jayasuriya's batting.

Hope to see a tough fight of in the inaugural match, so watch and enjoy the match.

Chennai Super Kings Team (Likely)

Matthew Hayden, Parthiv Patel, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (capt/wk), S Badrinath, Andrew Flintoff, Albie Morkel, L Balaji, Joginder Sharma, Manpreet Gony, Muttiah Muralitharan.

Mumbai Indians Team (Likely)

Sanath Jayasuriya, Sachin Tendulkar, Shikhar Dhawan, JP Duminy, Dwayne Bravo, Abhishek Nayar, Yogesh Takawale (wk), Harbhajan Singh, Dhawal Kulkarni, Zaheer Khan, Kyle Mills.

Ever since the Kolkata Knight Riders’ coach and Director of cricket operation of KKR John Buchanan proposed an experiment with multiple captains, the team has been shrouded in controversy. Buchanan seemed keen on trying out an all new strategy of having rotating captaincy to a team.

This move comes as a big disappointment to Sourav Ganguly who led the Kolkata Knight Riders through the first season of the IPL. Although they didn’t do very well last year losing 8 of the 14 games they played, Shahrukh and Ganguly’s fans at home had faith in his performance as a team leader. This decision is bound to kick up the dust among his fans, who are already protesting Buchanan’s decision. Ganguly however insists that as a professional, he will give his best to the team at whatever position he is.

On the other hand, McCullum who played only four matches in the first season is slated to be free to play for the whole of the second season of IPL. Last year McCullum gave KKR a blazing start, if he maintains that level of performance this year, he might prove to be an invaluable asset to the team as captain.

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Chennai Super Kings

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Delhi DareDevils

Kings XI Punjab

Kolkata Knight Riders

Deccan Chargers Hyderabad

Mumbai Indians

Deccan Chargers finished last in 2008 IPL despite the players like Andrew Symonds, Adam Gilchrist, Shahid Afridi, Harschell Gibbs and Rohit Sharma. Hope they will improve their performance and records in 2nd edition of IPL at South Africa.

Deccan Chargers Team, Squad for 2009 IPL:

Adam Gilchrist
Abhinav Kumar
Andrew Symonds
Arjun Yadav
Chamara Silva
Chaminda Vaas
Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna
Dwaraka Ravi Teja
Dwayne Smith
Fidel Edwards
Halhadar Das
Harmeet Singh
Herschelle Gibbs
Jas Karandeep Singh
Manvinder Bisla
Nuwan Zoysa
Paidikalva Vijaykumar
Pragyan Ojha
Rohit Sharma
Rudra Pratap Singh
Ryan Harris
Sarvesh Kumar
Scott Styris
Shoaib Ahmed
Tirumalsetti Suman
Venugopal Rao
VVS Laxman
Darren Lehman (AUS) (Coach)

Bangalore Royal Challengers finished 2nd last in the 1st IPL and therefore gone a major change by owner Vijay Mallya. They bought dynamic Kevin Peitersen at the highest price of 1.55 Million US$ in this year bidding. They also named Kevin Pietersen as the new captain of the team in place of technically fit Rahul dravid.

Bangalore Royal Challenger Team, Squad for 2009 IPL:

Kevin Pietersen (Captain)
Abhmanyu Mithun
Anil Kumble
Balachandra Akhil
Bharat Chipli
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Cameron White
Dale Steyn
Devraj Patil
Dillon du Preez
Gaurav Dhiman
Ishank Jaggi
Jacques Kallis
Jagadeesh
Arun Kumar
Jesse Ryder
Jitendra Patil
Karan Sharma
Kedar Jadhav
Kotarangada Appanna
Manish Pandey
Mark Boucher
Muralidharen Gautam
Nathan Bracken
Pankaj Singh
Praveen Kumar
R. Suteesh
Rahul Dravid
Rajesh Bishnoi
Raju Bhatkal
Robin Uthappa
Roelof van der Merwe
Rohit Sabharwal
Ross Taylor
Saurabh Bandekar
Sreesanth Aravind
Srivastava Goswami
Sunil Joshi
Tinu Yohannan
Udit Patel
Vinay Kumar
Virat Kohli
Wasim Jaffer
Ray Jennings (SA) (Coach)

Kings XI Punjab reached in the Semi-Final of 2008 IPL and are very balanced site to beat any one with players like Yuraj Singh, Shaun Marsh, Kumara Sangakkara, Irfan Pathan and Brett Lee. Shaun Marsh was the highest scorer in 2008 IPL.

Kings XI Punjab Team, Squad for 2009 IPL:

Yuvraj Singh
Ajitesh Argal
Amanpreet Singh
Brett Lee
Burt Cockley
Irfan Pathan
James Hopes
Jerome Taylor
Karan Goel
Kumar Sangakkara
Luke Pomersbach
Mahela Jayawardene
Piyush Chawla
Ramesh Powar
Ranadeb Bose
Ravi Bopara
Ravikant Shukla
Ryan Ninan
S. Sreesanth
Shaun Marsh
Simon Katich
Sunny Sohal
Tanmay Srivastava
Taruwar Kohli
Uday Kaul
Vikramjeet Malik
VRV Singh
Wilkin Mota
Yash Gandhi
Tom Moody (AUS) (Coach)

Kolkata Knight Riders started their 2008 IPL season with a bang with 3 consecutive matches but didn't carry it to the end. Hope they will go ahead in the series after a captaincy controversy for multiple captain.

Kolkata Knight Riders Team, Squad for 2009 IPL:

Sourav Ganguly (Captain)
Aakash Chopra
Ajantha Mendis
Ajit Agarkar
Angelo Mathews
Anureet Singh
Arindam Ghosh
Ashoke Dinda
Brad Hodge
Brendan McCullum
Cheteshwar Pujara
Chris Gayle
David Hussey
Ishant Sharma
Laxmi Ratan Shukla
Mark Cameron
Mashrafe Mortaza
Moises Henriques
Murali Kartik
Ricky Ponting
Sanjay Bangar
Shoaib Sheikh
Sourav Sarkar
Sunny Singh
Wriddhiman Saha
Yashpal Singh
John Buchanan (AUS) (Coach)

Delhi Daredevils started slowly but reached in the Semi-Finals of 2008 IPL before defeated by Rajasthan Royals. They have one of the most powerful opening pair in world cricket in the form of Virendar Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir. They bought two new England palyers Owais Shah and Paul Collingwood this season.

Mumbai Indians after poor start in 2008 IPL played well but they lost some close matches and unavailability of Tendulkar in earlier stage was the reason they didn't reached in last four. They bought South African sensation Paul Dumny and swap Indian pace star Zaheer Khan with Uthappa from Bangalore.

Chennai Super Kings are the runner ups of 2008 IPL and favorite to win 2nd edition of Indian Premier League. They bought England all rounder Andrew Flintoff for US$ 1.55 million, highest bidding price of this year to strengthen their middle order.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain)

Rajasthan Royals were the unexpected winner of 2008 IPL but will be hit back after the unavailability of Pakistan players like Kamran Akmal and Sohail Tanveer, highest wicket taker in last season and played major part in the triumph. The defending champion will highly depend on Graem Smith, Yusuf Pathan, Ravinder Jadeja and Shane Warne.
Shane Warne (Captain and Coach)