Today’s Match – Match 1 – IPL 2015 Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Mumbai Indians
Date – Wed Apr 8, 2015
Time – 14:30 GMT | 8 pm Indian time
Venue – Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Today in the first match of IPL season 8, defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Mumbai Indians.

Kolkata who are playing at their home ground would be looking to start the campaign with a decisive win where as 2013 champions Mumbai Indians would go all guns blazing to prove themselves today. The strength of both teams is their batting. With Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa, Manish Pandey, Shakib-al-Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, KKR is capable of tearing any bowling apart.

On the other hand Mumbai Indians also have some of the most dangerous T20 players. Rohit Sharma, Corey Anderson and Kieron Pollard can change the fortune of the game all by themselves. Rohit Sharma lead Mumbai Indians would be hoping to continue their good run against KKR as they have won 10 out of their 14 matches against KKR.

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad for IPL 2015
Gautam Gambhir, Andre Russell, Chris Lynn, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Morne Morkel, Patrick Cummins, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Ryan ten Doeschate, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Veer Pratap Singh, Yusuf Pathan, James Neesham, Brad Hogg, Aditya Garhwal, Sumit Narwal, KC Cariappa, Vaibhav Rawal, Sheldon Jackson.

Mumbai Indians Squad for IPL 2015
Rohit Sharma, Aditya Tare, Ambati Rayudu, Corey Anderson, Harbhajan Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Josh Hazlewood, Keiron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Marchant de Lange, Pawan Suyal, Shreyas Gopal, Lendl Simmons, Unmukt Chand, R Vinay Kumar, Parthiv Patel, Aaron Finch, Pragyan Ojha, Mitchell McClenaghan, Akshay Wakhare, Aiden Blizzard, Hardik Pandya, Siddhesh Lad, J Suchith, Nitish Rana, Abhimanyu Mithun.

All is set for yet another year of the sporting extravaganza, IPL. Today i.e Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 7.30 pm, the eight season of the IPL will start with a glittering performance at the Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata.

Bollywood Superstar Saif Ali Khan will be hosting the season. Some prominent superstars which will grace the occasion today are Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and Pritam.

MCC Spirit of Cricket pledge will be taken today by all the eight teams and the defending champions KKR will place the trophy back to get the season rolling.

Where can you watch the opening ceremony?
All the matches as well as the opening ceremony will be telecasted live on Sony Max and Sony Six. For the ones looking to watch if on mobile, all you need is a app named Hotstar.

Indian star Yuvraj Singh was the most expensive pick of the IPL 2015 Auctions as he went to Delhi Daredevils for a whopping 16 crore followed by another Indian Dinesh Karthik who was bagged by RCB for 10.5 crore.

Here is the complete list of players along with the auction price in IPL Season 8.

Check out the players who went unsold.

The much awaited IPL 2015 will start on April 8 and will continue till May 24. Though the spotlight is on World Cup but still fans are eager to know the team composition of IPL 2015.

We bring you live auctions as it happens.

Siddharth Trivedi the last player in auction bought by Rajasthan Royals for 10 lakh

Eklayva Dwivedi bought by Chennai Super Kings for his base price of 10 lakh.

17:04 Kumar Sangakkara remains UNSOLD for third time

16:46 K.K. Jiyaz goes to Delhi Daredevils for Rs. 10 lakh.
B Singh Saran is sold to Rajasthan Royals for his base price of 10 lakh.

Jaskaran Singh, Samad Fallah, Kshemal Waingankar and Joel Paris remain UNSOLD

16:40 Mumbai buy Mithun for 30 lakh. Andrew Tye goes to CSK for 20 lakhs and Siddarth Kaul goes to Sunrisers Hyderabad for 10 lakhs

Munaf Patel and Nuwan Kulasekara remain UNSOLD

Yuvraj Chudasama, Umar Nazir, Prasanth Parameswaran, Amit Mishra and Pradeep Sangwan remains UNSOLD

16:34 Delhi buy Zaheer Khan for 4 crore after a hefty bidding by Mumbai Indians.

16:26 Yogesh Golwalker is bought by Kings XI Punjab.
Siddharth Trivedi, Vinay Choudhary, Avinash Yadav, Pratyush Singh all are UNSOLD.

16:22 Hardik Pandya goes to Mumbai Indians for his base price of 10 lakh.
Baba Indrajith and Paul Valthaty remain UNSOLD.

16:19 J Suchith bought by Mumbai Indians
Prashant Padmanabhan is bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad
Dinesh Salunkhe goes to Rajasthan Royals.
Swarupam Purkaystha UNSOLD

16:15 Vaibhav Rawal is bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for his base price of 10 lakh.
Western Australia all-rounder Marcus Stoinis is bought by Delhi Daredevils for 25 lakh
Suneel Raju remains UNSOLD

16:12 Pardeep Sahu bought by Rajasthan Royals
Siddhesh Lad as bought by Mumbai Indians for 10 lakh.
Harpreet Singh, Akash Bhandari remain UNSOLD

16:10 Mumbai Indians buy Nitish Rana for 10 lakh
Robin Peterson, Shrikant Munde and Ashok Menaria remains UNSOLD

16:07 Chennai Super Kings buy Irfan Pathan for 1.5 crore:
All-rounder Azhar Mahmood remains UNSOLD
South African all-rounder Albie Morkel bought by Delhi Daredevils for 30 lakh.

16:04 Shishir Bhavane is brought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for his base price of Rs. 10 lakh.
Australia Travis Head is snapped up by Delhi Daredevils for his base price of 30 lakh.
Akhil Herwadkar, Prashant Naik and Sujit Nayak remains UNSOLD. also fail to find any buyers.
Prashant Chopra, Nikhil Gangta with a base price of 10 lakh, Australia’s Craig Simmons (base price 20 lakh), Arijit Gupta (10 lakh), Robin Bisht (10 lakh), Praful Waghela (10 lakh) also stay UNSOLD
Kona Srikar Bharat is sold to Delhi Daredevils for his base price of 10 lakh.

15:57 Smit Patel, Ankeet Bawane, Manprit Juneja, Eklavya Dwivedi, Michael Klinger and Taruwar Kohli remained UNSOLD

15:55 SOLD Ankush Bains bought by Chennai for 10 lakh
Tirumalsetti Suman remained UNSOLD

15:53 SOLD Jackson goes to Kolkata for Rs. 15 lakh.
Chennai back off after just one bid which means Jackson goes to Kolkata for 15 lakh.

15:52 Michael Carberry, Alex Hales, Brad Hodge and Ross Taylor Luke Ronchi and Aiden Blizzard remain UNSOLD

15:48 IPL Auction resumes with a delay. Sangakkara goes UNSOLD again!:

13:55 Auction is headed to a Lunch Break Now. Will resume at 3:15pm Till now 156 players have been auctioned but only 38 have been bought

13:52 (IST) Shadab Jakati, Bhargav Bhatt and Rahil Shah all having base price of 10 lakh stay UNSOLD

13:51 (IST) Amazing… KC Cariappa bought by KKR for 2.4 crore (Base price was 10 lakhs)

Mihir Hirwani, Akshay Wakhare and Sarabjeet Ladda remain UNSOLD

13:43 (IST) Rahul Shukla, Amit Mishra, Pradeep Sangwan and Siddarth Kaul remain UNSOLD

13:41 (IST) SOLD! Delhi buy pacer Mutthuswamy for 75 lakh

13:35 (IST) Andrew Tye, Basil Thampy, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Arvind Sreenath and HS Sharath all remain UNSOLD

13:35 (IST) Sumit Narwal is sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for his base price of 10 lakh

Srikant Mundhe and Ashok Menaria both with a base price of 10 lakh UNSOLD

Robbie Frylinck and Kevin O’Brien remain UNSOLD

Jalaj Saxena is bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for his base price of 10 lakh

13:31 (IST) Kolkata bought Aditya Garhwal for 25 lakh

Jesal Karia, Ramdayal Punia and Kevon Cooper remain UNSOLDfail to attract any bids.

13:27 (IST) Nikhil Naik bought by Kings XI Punjab for 30 lakh

13:26 (IST) Smit Patel, Sushant Marathe remain UNSOLD

13:25 Karnataka’s wicketkeeper-batsman CM Gautam sold for his base price of 20 lakh to Delhi Daredevils.

13:22 (IST) Arun Karthik, Amit Paunikar, Ankush Bains UNSOLD

13:22 (IST)Ben Dunk, Davy Jacobs ,Sreevats Goswami all remain UNSOLD

13.21 (IST): T Suman, Sheldon Jackson, Aiden Blizzard, Mohnish Mishra, Debabrata Das with a base price of 20 lakh remains UNSOLD

13.20 (IST): Yogesh Nagar, Paras Dogra with base price of Rs. 10 lakh remain UNSOLD

13.18 (IST): Sarfaraz Khan sold to RCB for 50 lakh

13.15 (IST): SOLD! Shreyas Iyer goes to Delhi Daredevils for 2.60 crore!

12.47 (IST): Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Shaun Tait, Dirk Nannes and Nuwan Kulasekara remain UNSOLD!

12.37 (IST): Suraj Randiv, Fervez Maharoof and South Africa’s Farhaan Beherdien remain UNSOLD!

12.35 (IST): SOLD! Aussie medium pacer Gurinder Sandhu bagged by Delhi Daredevils for Rs 1.70 crore

12.22 (IST): Azhar Mahmood, Johan Botha, Robin Peterson Juan Theron and David Hussey go UNSOLD!

12.19 (IST): Sachitra Senanayake and Jeevan Mendis UNSOLD

12.18 (IST): Albie Morkel goes unsold!

12.14 (IST):SOLD! South African all-rounder David Wiese goes to Bangalore for Rs. 2.80 crore.

11.58 (IST): Second Session Ends, will resume in few minutes.

11.54 (IST): Dean Elgar, Hamish Rutherford, Richard Levi and Venugopal Rao go unsold.

11.52 (IST): SOLD! Brad Hogg sold to KKR for Rs 50 lakh.

11.49 (IST): Nathan Lyon and Michael Beer UNSOLD

11.48 (IST): SOLD! Chennai pick up Rahul Sharma at base price of Rs 30 lakh.

11.38 (IST): SOLD!Sean Abbott goes to RCB for Rs. 1 crore.

11.37 (IST): Finally some action in bidding as Australian pacer Sean Abbott is up for grabs.Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore are bidding for him.

11.35 (IST): Abhimanyu Mithun goes UNSOLD.

11.33 (IST): Munaf Patel and Zaheer Khan goes UNSOLD!

11.32 (IST): SOLD! Jaydev Unadkat to Delhi Daredevils for Rs Rs. 1.10 crore

11.11 (IST): SOLD! Darren Sammy goes to RCB for Rs. 2.80 crore.

11.10 (IST): Irfan Pathan and Marlon Samuels go UNSOLD

11.07 (IST): SOLD! England’s Ravi Bopara goes to Sunrisers Hyderabad for base price of Rs. 1 crore.

11.05 (IST): Tillakaratne Dilshan goes UNSOLD!

11.04 (IST): James Neesham goes to KKR for Rs. 30 lakh.

11.00 (IST): Sri Lanka’s Kusal Janith Perera goes unsold

10.58 (IST): Luke Ronchi goes unsold.

10.56 (IST): Michael Carberry also goes unsold

10.55 (IST): Cheteshwar Pujara goes unsold!

10.52 (IST): SOLD! Subramaniam Badrinath purchased by Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs. 30 lakh.

10.50 (IST):Alex Hales, Brad Hodge and Ross Taylor all go unsold

10.50 (IST): Second Session begins

10.29 (IST): The first session ends now, will continue after a 20 min break.

10.28 (IST): SOLD! Aaron Finch sold to Mumbai Indians for Rs. 3.20 crore.

10.18 (IST): Mumbai Indians and Delhi Daredevils are fighting for Aussie Aaron Finch.

10.17 (IST): SOLD! Delhi Daredevils get Amit Mishra for Rs. 3.50 crore

10.14 (IST): Mumbai Indians, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Daredevils and Rajasthan Royals are fighting for Amit Mishra whose base price is Rs. 1 crore.

10.12 (IST): SOLD! Dinesh Karthik goes to Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs. 10.50 crore

10.01 (IST): SOLD! Yuvraj Singh goes to Delhi Daredevils for Rs. 16 crore.

09.52 (IST): Yuvraj Singh is now being auctioned, DD, RCB and KXIP are bidding heavily on him.

09.51 (IST): SOLD! Kane Williamson goes to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs. 60 Lakh.

09.41 (IST): Murali Vijay sold to KXIP for Rs. 3 crore.

09.37 (IST): Next up is Murali Vijay at a base price of Rs. 50 lakh. CSK, RCB and KXIP are bidding to war.take him.

09.36 (IST): No one took Amla so he goes unsold

09.30 (IST): The IPL 2015 has started and the first player will be Hashim Amla