Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians, IPL 2012, Chennai

Mumbai field in season opener

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Mumbai Indians chose to field v Chennai Super Kings

On a surprisingly green Chennai pitch, Harbhajan Singh won the toss and inserted hosts and defending champions Chennai Super Kings in the opening match of the IPL's fifth season. As expected, Mumbai handed an IPL debut to the big-hitting South African Richard Levi, but left out their successful seamer Munaf Patel, going instead with Abu Nechim. Pragyan Ojha got a chance to play his first game for Mumbai. The new names for Super Kings were Faff du Plessis and Ravindra Jadeja.

Mumbai Indians 1 Sachin Tendulkar, 2 Richard Levi, 3 Ambati Rayudu, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Dinesh Kartik (wk), 6 Kieron Pollard, 7 James Franklin, 8 Harbhajan Singh (capt.), 9 Lasith Malinga, 10 Abu Nechim and 11 Pragyan Ojha

Chennai Super Kings 1 M Vijay, 2 Faff du Plessis, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 S Badrinath, MS Dhoni (capt. & wk), 6 Dwayne Brao, 7 Albie Morkel, 8 Ravindra Jadeja, 9 R Ashwin, 10 Shadab Jakati and 11 Doug Bollinger