Chennai Super Kings will play Kolkata Knight Riders in the first game of the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League. The game will be played at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, earlier called the Chepauk ground.
MS Dhoni’s duty with the Chennai Super Kings, leading his side out to take on the boys from Kolkata in the inaugural game of the fourth season of the DLF Indian Premier League.
Kolkata Knight Riders will be led by Gautam Gambhir and will also have Yusuf Pathan in their squad which should make it interesting for their side.The Super Kings’ tag of favourites doesn’t merely come because they will be playing in front of their home fans but because they have perhaps the most balanced team of all.
Chennai Super Kings : Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Subramanium Badrinath, Joginder Sharma, Sudeep Tyagi, Abhinav Mukund, Aniruddha Shrikant, Ganapathi Vignesh, K Vasudevdas, Shadb Jakati, Vijaykumar Yomahesh, (Foreign) Albie Morkel, Michael Hussey, Dwayne Bravo, Doug Bollinger, Scott Styris, Ben Hilfenhaus, Nuwan Kulasekera, Suraj Randiv, George Bailey, Faf du Plessis
Kolkata Knight Riders : Gautam Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan, Manoj Tiwary, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Jaidev Unadkat, Iqbal Abdulla, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manvinder Singh Bisla, Pradeep Sangwan, Rajat Bhatia, Sarabjit Ladda, Shami Ahmed, Shreevats Goswami (Foreign) Jacques Kallis, Brad Haddin, Shakib Al Hassan, Brett Lee, Eoin Morgan, Ryan ten Doeschate, James Pattinson.
