IPL 2009 season 2 Preview and Live Score: Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings

The opening match of the season 2 of the Indian premier league will be commenced on at 16:00 IST, 12:30 South African Local time and 10:30 GMT at Newlands in Cape Town. SET MAX television will air the match for the cricket fans. With Cape Town, the whole globe is waiting to celebrate the IPL T20 tournament; especially the Indian people are very exciting about the tournament.

The year IPL 2009 second (2) season will be started between the match IPL Mumbai (MI) vs IPL Chennai (CSK) but in the first season it was between Bangalore Royal Challengers (BRC) and Kolkata Knights Riders (KKR). Mumbai Indians is the most costly cricket club that was licensed by Mukesh Ambani (Reliance Industries) and it is the highest paid team of IPL and bought for $ 111.9 m. CSK is the number fourth highest paid team, bought by India Cements (N Srinivasan) for $ 91.0 m.

CSK will be leaded by the Indian cricket team’s captain MS Dhoni. The Dhoni’s boys performed well in the last year and reached to the Final. India titled the ICC World Cup Champions in the inaugural ceremony in 2007. Now, he has brought good luck in Indian cricket.

The opposition Mumbai Indians will dominate in the fields under Little Master Sachin Tendulkar. There is noting introduce newly about him but he could not perform well in Twenty20 international tournament, even in the last year of Indian Premier League.

Indian Premier League season 2 inaugural match

Teams: Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians

Venue: Newlands, Cape Town

Date and time: On Apr 18, 2009, at 4:00 Indian time, 12:30 local time (10:30 GMT)

Live telecast: Set Max

Online live: Cricinfo, FoxSports,

Video streaming and highlight: Willow TV, Directv

In the double robin round matches Mumbai Indians, it secured 7 wins out of 14 matches’ as a result they could not qualified for knock out rounds (semi final). In spite of spending huge money the team could not show good performances in season 1. By winning 8 matches in the qualified round, Chennai Super Kings come up in the semi final and in semi final beat Kings XI Punjab but in final they beat to Rajasthan Royals.

Ami to strong the teams movement in season 2 of IPL, Mumbai Indians bought three players who are JP Duminy, Kyle Mills and Mohammad Ashraful but West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo has re-signed with the Mumbai Indians. Similarly, Chennai Super Kings also added three new faces; they are Andrew Flintoff, Thilan Thushara and George Bailey. Important thing is that Andrew Flintoff has broken all the record of auction ever and he has been paid $1.55 millions. Michael Hussey has been withheld for this year.

IPL 2009: Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians 1st match Newlands, Cape Town

During the opening day of the IPL second season Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians will meet for the first encounter at Newlands, Cape Town. This is the first match of the IPL 2009. But, in the inaugural Indian Premier League the opening match was between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata Knight Riders. The Twenty20 formatted IPL tournament become very popular over the world.

 

In the first season, Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians met at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai, on 23 April 2008. Mumbai Indians who won the toss and invited the CSK bat first. The CSK scored 208 runs from five wickets. The big challenging score faced them in huge pressure but they took the challenge and scored 202 runs from 7 wickets. The performances of both teams were unbelievable and astonished all the fans. The batsmen enjoyed the match delighted the audiences most. It was the 8^th match of IPL 2008 season.

 

This was the second match of Chennai Super Kings and the home match (first Leg) and similarly for Mumbai Indians second match but away. Indian Captain MS Dhoni was the skipper of CSK and for the absence of Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh leaded Mumbai Indians.

 

A Nehra was the first bowlers who attacked Chennai Super Kings batting line-up at the 4^th over. When the team just reached to 31 runs PA Patel surrendered his wicket to A Nehra through the wicket-keeper and it was his only wicket that day. MA Khote was the successful bowler who took 2 wickets by 29 runs. Mumbai Indians’ Captain Harbhajan Singh used 8 men to take the control of opposite batting.

 

ML Hayden the booming batsmen on the side of Chennai Super Kings scored 81 runs from 102 balls and went back to pavilion by the direct hit of Harbhajan Singh. SK Raina was the second highest scorer of 53 from 54 balls and captain MS Dhoni was the third highest scorer 30 from 31 balls.

 

Mumbai Indians’ had to minimize them in 202 runs as a result they lost to Chennai Super Kings for 6 runs. No doubt that it was a painful defeat of very narrow defeat. Except opener L Ronchi and lower-middle order batsman MA Khote could not score good but rest of the batsmen presented themselves amazingly. AM Nayar the highest scored and was not out for 45 runs by playing 53 balls with 6x4 and just a single six and RV Uthappa who is one of the popular Twenty20 formatted success batsmen from the Mumbai Indians side scored 43 runs from 38 balls when he hits 6 fours and one six.

 

Newlands, Cape Town is known as Sahara Park. It is going to the history of the inaugural match of Indian Premier League IPL 2009 second season. It has a capacity of 25,000 audiences and celebrated the first Twenty20 formatted match during the Inaugural World Cup Twenty20 cricket tournament. It was the 4^th match of Twenty20 World Cup 2007 between Australia and Zimbabwe and the last Twenty20 cricket tournament was ICC World Twenty20 - 1st semi final which was played along with New Zealand and Pakistan.

 

Newlands, Cape Town will be the host of 8 matches of IPL 2009 including the opening ceremony. After the opening ceremony two matches will be taken place at the same ground on 18 April 2009.