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All eyes will be on Sachin Tendulkar and skipper Harbhajan Singh as defending champions Mumbai Indians take on local team Lions in their opening Champions League Twenty20 tomorrow.

Featuring players who shone at the World Twenty20, Australia's Sydney Sixers might prove to be quite a handful for the Chennai Super Kings when the two teams clash in their opening Group B encounter of the Champions League T20, tomorrow.

Azhar Mahmood produced a vintage all-round performance to carry Auckland into the main draw of the Champions League T20 at Centurion, South Africa on Wednesday, HT reports.

When CLT20 was conceived back in 2008, the idea was to build it up into an event as glitzy as the Champions League - the blue riband football property. HT reports.

The irregular bonus scandal which followed their hosting of the 2009 IPL will not be repeated when South Africa host this year's Champions League Twenty20, the country's Cricket Board has assured.

I am recovering from the loss in the World T20. It hurt bad, real bad. You know, that is why sport is a great leveler. The IPL was my last T20 competition, which my team, Kolkata Knight Riders, won. Gautam Gambhir writes.

Once again as I write this column on match day, I have a mixed feeling. I am anxious and glad that I have all of you to talk to. We will leave for the ground in sometime to take on the Auckland Aces in our vital Game 2 in Cape Town. Gautam Gambhir writes.