
The ‘Carnival of Cricket’ IPL 2009 is all set to begin in less than 14 hours time in south Africa, 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