Probables for Mumbai and Chennai Team

Chennai Super Kings

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

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

Note:

Morkel, Duminy and Ntini it means playing the IPL opener within hours of finishing the day-night ODI against Australia in Johannesburg.

KKR Captain: New Zealand's Brendon McCullum replaces Sourav Ganguly

The Knight Riders take on the Deccan Chargers in Newlands on Sunday The 19th April 2009.

It has been talks and talk’s allover time since Australian coach John Buchanan brought up the theory of multiple captains for his team for the second edition of the IPL in South Africa.

With McCullum being appointed skipper for the initial matches and could be replaced by someone else in days to come.