IPL 4: Chennai's Probable Eleven For Opening Game Against Kolkata

Chennai Super Kings will begin their IPL campaign with the opening four games, on Friday, 8 April against Kolkata Knight Riders.

are the current CSK IPL T20 Champions League and Champions League winners. Dhoni returned from a successful World Cup campaign, where he led India culmination ODI cricket.

Well, CSK and Dhoni will both have to bear the pressure of expectations, in what is likely to be harder IPL thgan previous releases, due to the addition of two teams, and changes in home and away schedules, this time.

In this article I am going to list what I consider the best eleven CSK can hope to field against KKR, in the opening game.

CSK players are following the bank select: Tharanga, Vijay, Mike Hussey, Ms Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Scott Styris, Albie Morkel, Badrinath, Jakati, Ashwin, Yo Mahesh, Tim Southea, Bravo, Hilfenhaus, Randiv, Mukund , W Saha, K Vasudevadas, Aniruddha S, F du Pleissis, Joginder Sharma, N Kulasekhara, G Vignesh and Sudeep Tyagi.

By the way, Tharanga was elected after George Bailey got hurt, while Southea a replacement for injured Bollinger.

only four foreign players allowed in eleven, and I will continue to select the first four I think CSK will serve the cause best. Mike Hussey and Tim Southea select themselves, one for his batting and never say-die quality, and the other for being in the form of a new ball bowler. Albie Morkel is a proven commodity, with bat and ball, a part of the core team that Dhoni cherishes so consistent, and should be found in eleven against KKR. With Bravo injured and du Pleissis yet to establish a consistent, versatile, my fourth choice is Scott Styris.

Among the Indian players, Dhoni, Raina, Badrinath, Vijay and Ashwin to go to eleven. That leaves two seats to be filled.

players I have selected are pure in form batsmen Dhoni, Vijay, Hussey and Badrinath, pure bowlers in Ashwin and Southea, and all-rounders in Raina, Morkel and Styris. With seven batsmen are two pure bowlers should be given this some balance, I'd go for Jakati to begin with. Jakati is a slow left arm orthodox spin gives this variety in bowling. There are two applicants for eleventh place, which I reserved for the new operator ball. Yo Mahesh gets my vote ahead of Joginder Sharma, on the back of his IPL better credentials, as well as his better batting ability.