The 1st  match of the IPL 2009 is between Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians at  Newlands, Cape Town , on Sat 18th 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT, 16:00 IST

Chennai Super Kings will be favoured to make a winning start to their IPL campaign on Saturday. The big news is Andrew Flintoff who will be available for the first half  of IPL . For Mumbai their captain Sachin Tendulkar, who missed the first half of the tournament last year, is fit and is will play the full tournament

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Team news

Chennai have to think  on the opener with Hayden. The players are Parthiv Patel, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan and M Vijay.

Head-to-head record

These 2 teams have played twice against each other and have won a piece each.

TEAMS

Chennai Super Kings (probable) 1 Matthew Hayden, 2 Parthiv Patel, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 5 S Badrinath, 6 Andrew Flintoff, 7 Albie Morkel, 8 L Balaji, 9 Joginder Sharma, 10 Manpreet Gony, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan.

Mumbai Indians (probable) 1 Sanath Jayasuriya, 2 Sachin Tendulkar, 3 Shikhar Dhawan, 4 JP Duminy, 5 Dwayne Bravo, 6 Abhishek Nayar, 7 Yogesh Takawale (wk), 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Dhawal Kulkarni, 10 Zaheer Khan, 11 Kyle Mills.

Quotes

“Whatever has happened is over and done with. We all make mistakes learn from them. I’ve moved on as a cricketer and I’m looking forward to doing well for the IPL for Mumbai Indians. Keeping my fingers crossed that I perform the way I have been.”
Harbhajan Singh isn’t looking back at what was a forgettable IPL 2008 for him

“The expectations have definitely increased this time after we finished runners-up last time. If you compare us to the other teams, I think our team is well-balanced and definitely one of the favourites to win the tournament.”
Suresh Raina has high expectations from the Chennai team

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