[Harshshah]

Tendulkar v Warne Another chapter of the classic contest between two of the premier cricketers of the past two decades. Tendulkar might have had the better of this duel most of the time, but Warne was the victor the last time the pair met - trapping Tendulkar lbw to trigger Mumbai's slide towards defeat.

Tait v Tendulkar Tait has been scarily quick in the Twenty20s for Australia, but it remains to be seen how he fares on slower, subcontinental tracks. Warne's tweet asking "Do you think Sachin will open and face Tait. Or drop himself down order and let others take on Tait ?" to fans has added some spice to this contest. It has already provoked plenty of support from the Tendulkar-faithful, forcing Warne to clarify with a placatory tweet, "Why does everyone think I'm saying Sachin scared of Tait. You guys are being too sensitive.. I just asked where he would bat? Open/middle."

Smith v Zaheer Smith can be a brutally effective batsman at the top of the order, but he has had plenty of problems in both Tests and ODIs against Zaheer, who is raring to go after recovering from a muscle strain that kept him out of the one-dayers against South Africa.

Prime numbers

* Munaf, who has been made Rajasthan's bowling captain, had a solid 2009 season, bagging 16 wickets in 11 matches.
* Malinga's mix of bouncer and yorkers bamboozled batsmen last season - his 20 death overs (final six overs of the innings) went for only 5.80 runs each.
* One of Rajasthan's problems last year was that their batsmen didn't run up big scores - only five half-centuries in the entire tournament

Chatter

"This tournament is about momentum. You have to win games upfront and hopefully we will win tomorrow's match and all our matches. We've been here for a few weeks now. I'm pretty satisfied with our preparations. It has been intensive."
Robin Singh, the Mumbai Indians coach, is ready to go.

"He has been the greatest batsman in my 20 years of playing international cricket. He has been the greatest challenge to bowl to and I am hoping to resume that. Particularly out here, they have seen him win most of the times and hit me half way out of the stands, and I wish to put it right tomorrow."
Shane Warne is preparing for Sachin Tendulkar

Harshshah added 7 Minutes and 34 Seconds later...

My opinion Mumbai due to batting and bowling

[McLOVIN]

looking forward to this

Warne all the way

[SaiSrini]

Mumbai Indians to bat. I will stay awake till Sachin bats and will be off.

[shantanu_rooney]

Tendulkar
Jaysuriya
Rayudu
Madan
Nayar
Napier
McLaren
Bhajji
Kulkarni
Zaheer
Malinga

probable starting 11 with Duminy unfit.

[TumTum]

Originally Posted by SaiSrini

Mumbai Indians to bat. I will stay awake till Sachin bats and will be off.

Yer nobody likes to watch Sachin bat

[Gazza]

Originally Posted by SaiSrini

Mumbai Indians to bat. I will stay awake till Sachin bats and will be off.

You'll only be up till Warne comes into the attack then

[Friend863]

Originally Posted by Gazza

You'll only be up till Warne comes into the attack then

nah, that's when the entertainment will start

[TumTum]

Gazza you are definitely not thinking what I'm thinking

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

Lets see if Mumbai Indians can really resist Shaun Tait or not

[shravi]

The decision to leave out Abhishek Nayar is quite baffling tbh. He's a very handy T20 player.

[naresh091]

Mumbai's team selection is awful.They're playing only 3 foreigners and preferring Rayudu over Nayar is thoroughly awful,unless Nayar is unfit.

naresh091 added 1 Minutes and 22 Seconds later...

I'm looking forward to see what Satish does.Hes an handy allrounder and a terrific fielder.

[TumTum]

Nice Tait playing, might be worth watching

[paki007]

I hope they Both will fire today as i selected them in my team

[rahuldravidfan]

Ambati Rayudu... watch out for this guy

[TumTum]

Originally Posted by rahuldravidfan

Ambati Rayudu... watch out for this guy

Is he the quick one?