Team: Mumbai Indians vs Highveld Lions (MI vs HL)
Tournament: 2010 Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20)
Match: First T20 Match-Group: B (Day/Night)
Date: 10th September 2010
Time:17:30 Local (15:30 GMT)
Venue: The New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa
On then to Highveld Lions v Mumbai Indians, which seems a hopeless mismatch on paper. It's Tendulkar, Pollard, Malinga, Zaheer, Bravo, Harbhajan v Alviro Petersen and lesser-known friends. It's also the classic tussle between the powerful and the underdog. One team is the triumph of money, a rich, powerful ensemble, most of them bought in an auction, but also a unit that has learned to play well enough as a team to have dominated the IPL. The other team is largely a collection of homegrown talent, who have stayed together through good times and bad, winning the inaugural domestic Twenty20 competition in South Africa, then struggling for three years before finishing runners-up last year.
The Lions play as a team day in and day out, across formats; Mumbai's superstars gather for a month or so every year just for Twenty20s, and their being together next year depends on another auction. This is the first time Mumbai are coming across a team that is not similarly acquired at an auction. At the same time Mumbai are one of the IPL teams to have invested wholeheartedly in domestic talent, in the likes of Ambati Rayudu, R Sathish and Saurabh Tiwary. Lions don't have much else other than domestic talent to work with. Petersen is the only current international in the squad, Neil McKenzie the most experienced, and Zander be Bruyn and Vaughn van Jaarsveld the nearly men. A clash of Twenty20 philosophies is a good way to start the Champions League with.
Mumbai Indians vs Highveld Lions Live Streaming
Mumbai Indians squadSR Tendulkar*, DJ Bravo, S Dhawan, JP Duminy, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, DS Kulkarni, R McLaren, SL Malinga, AG Murtaza, KA Pollard, AT Rayudu, R Sathish, AP Tare†, SS Tiwary
Lions squad
AN Petersen*, CJ Alexander, S Burger, R Cameron, WL Coetsee, WA Deacon, Z de Bruyn, R Frylinck, ND McKenzie, E O'Reilly, AM Phangiso, J Symes, TL Tsolekile†, JD Vandiar, VB van Jaarsveld
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