IPL 2016 Opening Ceremony Live Streaming and Telecast

India were eliminated in the semi-finals of the recently concluded ICC T20 World Cup 2016. Hopefully IPL 2016 will erase the sour memories. The colourful mega event kicks off as usual in style with an opening ceremony to be held today at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. House full stadium with star studded night, who would like to miss this one! Watch IPL 2016 opening ceremony live streaming on HotStar and live telecast on Sony Six and Sony Max HD network in India.

Bollywood celebrities such as Katrina Kaif, Jacqueline Fernandez, Ranvir Singh and Yo Yo Honey Singh would perform in front of the audiences. The other attractions for the night would be American rapper Chris Brown, English rapper Fuse ODG, recording artist Nailah Thourbourne, dancing sensation Major Lazer and many more to name. Absolute fun for the fans of these stars and cricket fans too.

Ferriswheel Entertainment would be the organiser of the opening ceremony this year. They are all set to put together a cricket party that would be remembered forever. 

Confirmed!Beyond excited to share a stage with @MAJORLAZER @Asli_Jacqueline @RanveerOfficial @IPL opening I see you! pic.twitter.com/Zl4gKIo9yd

— Dwayne DJ Bravo (@DJBravo47) April 7, 2016

There are also news about Dwayne Bravo and his teammates performing on the Champion song in the event. It would be an absolute treat for the cricket fans to witness this performance on a song that has already been a super hit!

The first match of the Vivo IPL 2016 will also be played at the Wankhede Stadium on 9th April 2016 between the defending champions Mumbai Indians and Rising Pune Supergiants. 

Watch India vs Australia 2016 Live Streaming and Telecast

After a well deserved break, Indian team is back in action. The team travels to Australia for a bilateral cricket series that consists of T20 and ODI cricket. Yes, no test cricket this time. One might wonder, aren't the Indians touring Australia too often? India toured to Australia last year for a test series which was followed by a tri-nation ODI series and the cricket world cup. In the current context, its more beneficial for India to visit Australia because the T20 world cup 2016 is around the corner. Competing against a team as strong as Australia would help team India raise their level of cricket before the much anticipated ICC event of T20 World Cup. Watch the exciting India vs Australia 2016 cricket series live streaming and telecast in India on Star Sports and HotStar.

Teams around the world are more active on the T20 front as they all need to be upto the mark before the start of T20 world cup. Playing India in a T20 match before that would also be beneficial for Australia as they are the hosts for T20 world cup. India would play host to the ICC T20 World Cup later this year.

MS Dhoni has had a tough time after the cricket world cup. He has a point to prove now. Following Kohli's success as a captain in the test format, many have a view that Dhoni should handover the T20 and ODI captaincy to Kohli. Meanwhile MS Dhoni is a great cricketer and all he believes right now is to concentrate on the Australia tour and the upcoming World Twenty20.

As a part of preparation, India plays two warm up matches against Australia. India vs Western Australia XI T20 and ODI practice match live streaming would be available in Australia on cricket.com.au and Cricket Australia live app. Indians can enjoy the same on HotStar and Star Sports.

The two tour games against WA XI will be played on 8th and 9th of January 2016 at WACA, Perth.

These games will be followed by the five match ODI series and three T20 International matches.

Full schedule:

1st ODI - 12 January 2016 – India vs Australia, WACA Ground, Perth.

2nd ODI - 15 January 2016 – India vs Australia, Gabba, Brisbane

3rd ODI - 17 January 2016 – India vs Australia, Melbourne Cricket Ground

4th ODI - 20 January 2016 – India vs Australia, Manuka Oval, Canberra

5th ODI - 23 January 2016 – India vs Australia, Sydney Cricket Ground

1st T20I - 26 January 2016 – India vs Australia, Adelaide Oval

2nd T20I - 29 January 2016 – India vs Australia, Melbourne Cricket Ground

3rd T20I - 31 January 2016 – Australia v India, Sydney Cricket Ground

The Indian squads for ODI and T20 series is already declared and they are as follows:

India’s ODI Squad: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, MS Dhoni (C) (Wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd. Shami, Axar Patel, Rishi Dhawan, Barinder Balbirsingh Sran

India’s T20 Squad: Shikhar Dhawan, Harbhajan Singh, Umesh Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (C) (Wk), Suresh Raina, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd. Shami, Ashish Nehra 

Australia has declared it's ODI squad:

Australia's squad for ODI series: Steve Smith (C), Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Kane Richardson, Joel Paris, Matthew Wade, David Warner, George Bailey, Scott Boland, Josh Hazlewood, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Mitch Marsh.

Enjoy quality cricket live on Star Sports and HotStar. T20 world cup 2016 live streaming and Asia Cup live streaming can be enjoyed on HotStar and Star Sports.

MCL 2020 Live Streaming

Masters Champions League T20 2016 Teams

The inaugural edition of Masters Champions League T20 2016 will begin from 28th January 2016 and it will continue till 13th Feb 2016. This has been official declared by the MCL 2020 twitter account. 

Meanwhile the icon players and squads are already declared. Following are the details:-

Virgo Super Kings Team Squad Graeme Smith Jacob Oram John Mooney Gareth Batty Dirk Nannes Murali Kartik Neil McKenzie Hasan Raza Azhar Mahmood Mohammad Yousuf Malinga Bandara Humayun Farhat Brett Lee Owais Shah Jonty Rhodes James Foster

Libra Legends Team Squad

Jacques Kallis

Taufeeq Umar

Ryan ten Doeschate

Sourav Ganguly

Nicky Boje

Michael Lumb

Ryan Sidebottom

Chris Read

Ian Butler

Brad Hogg

Ajay Ratra

Sean Ervine

Graeme Swann

Shaun Tait

Marcus North

Gemini Arabians Team Squad

Virender Sehwag

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Naved-ul-Hasan

Paul Harris

Jacques Rudolph

Muttiah Muralitharan

Justin Kemp

Saqib Ali

Graham Onions

Brad Hodge

Richard Levi

Saqlain Mushtaq

Kumar Sangakkara

Kyle Mills

Ashish Bagai

Leo Lions Team Squad

Robin Peterson

James Franklin

Ramesh Powar

Darren Gough

Kyle Jarvis

Fidel Edwards

Neil Carter

Heath Streak

Brendan Taylor

Herschelle Gibbs

Hamish Marshall

Simon Jones

Johan Botha

Scott Styris

Brian Lara

Mohammad Tauqir

Sagittarius Soldiers Team Squad

Jonathan Trott

Adam Gilchrist

Krishmar Santokie

Gavin Hamilton

Alviro Petersen

Daniel Vettori

Michael Carberry

Phil Mustard

Tino Best

Shane Bond

Khurram Khan

Mushtaq Ahmed

Mahela Jayawardene

Nathan Hauritz

Yasir Hameed

Capricorn Commanders Team Squad

Ryan McLaren

Andrew Symonds

Ashwell Prince

Michael Vaughan

Rory Keith Kleinveldt

Chamara Silva

Abdul Razzaq

Upul Chandana

Ben Laughlin

Jeetan Patel

Rizwan Cheema

Rikki Clarke

Sunil Joshi

Paul Collingwood

Geraint Jones

Saleem Elahi

This provides another opportunity for the cricket fans to witness some great legends back in action. The players list above tells the whole story. And who would not love to see Sehwag, Ganguly, Symonds, Sangakkara, Lara, Akram, Gilchrist, Lee, etc again!

We will provide details on schedule once it is announced. Sony Six and Sony Liv will provide live streaming and telecast of MCL 2020. For IPL lovers, here is an update. Catch IPL 2016 live telecast and streaming on Sony ESPN and Sony ESPN HD. Stay tuned with us for more updates on the Masters Champions League T20 2016.

Daredevils vs Sunrisers and KKR vs KXIP Live Streaming

Two matches lined up for the day and we are not even out of the hangover of yesterday's match. Great batting display from the likes of Rohit Sharma, Pollard, McCullum, Smith and Raina. Today's 4pm match would be Delhi Daredevils vs Sunrisers Hyderabad and 8pm encounter would be Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab. Watch live streaming of these IPL matches today on HotStar mobile app and Star Sports official website. Enjoy live telecast on TV in India with Sony Six, Set Max and Sony Pix. Ball by ball live commentary will be available in Hindi, English, Telugu and Tamil.

Delhi will take on Hyderabad at Visakhapatnam and the match would begin at 4pm. Delhi Daredevils have something to cheer about after a long time. They lost 11 consecutive matches in IPL which was followed by a thumping win over strong Kings XI team. Yuvraj Singh and Mayank Agarwal came out with all guns blazing and chased a big target comfortably. It was an absolute treat to watch Yuvraj with so much of confidence after such a long time.

Sunrisers Hyderabad have had a shaky start to their campaign. Two losses and one win is all they have so far. While they gained some confidence after beating RCB in their own backyard, they suffered an easy loss at home against Rajasthan Royals. David Warner and company need to pull up their socks and give their best today. Notably SRH has never lost a match against DD. So they can also capitalise on their past records and continue the winning momentum against the Daredevils.

Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders would be pitted against a strong Kings XI Punjab team. It would almost seem like we are revisiting the IPL 2014 final when these two teams locked horns. KKR emerged as champions then. Kings XI Punjab would love to make it even stevens this time.

Glenn Maxwell hasn't clicked yet for Kings XI Punjab. If he goes up the order and stays there even for four to five overs, he can do a lot of damage. Virender Sehwag is in good form and consistently scoring runs. With a good batting depth and playing at home, Kings XI have an upper hand today.

For KKR, Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa at the top have to steer the innings atleast through first six to eight overs. Rest of the batsmen can take it forward from there. KKR lost to RCB in their last match even after posting 177 runs on board. We all know its hard to stop Gayle when its his day. He blew away KKR bowling line up with a quick fire 96.

Two big matches for the day, sit back and relax, enjoy T20 action! Watch Star Sports, HotStar and Sony Entertainment TV for live IPL action.

Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Daredevils Live Streaming - IPL 2015 Match 10

While Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings are on a march to win all the matches they play, there are still teams who are yet to win a match. Today we will see Delhi Daredevils face Kings XI Punjab at MCA Stadium in Pune. Watch live streaming of this match in India on HotStar live app and Star Sports official and mobile website. Watch live telecast of IPL 2015 matches on Sony Six, Sony Pix and Set Max (Sony Max) with live Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil and English commentary.

Kings XI Punjab pitches a strong team that looked unbeatable last year. This year they started off their IPL campaign with a 26 runs defeat against Rajasthan Royals. They played their second match against Mumbai Indians and registered a good win. 

A team that has a line up full with match winners would again look to dominate the IPL this year. The team has lot of hopes from the blaster Glenn Maxwell. But he is yet to click in the IPL 2015 season. Since Sandeep Sharma and Anureet Singh are clinching wickets, Mitchell Johnson should feel free to experiment or just bowl with sheer fast pace!

Delhi Daredevils will play their third match. They are yet to win a game. They had dismal performances in last two years. This year under the captaincy of Dumminy, this team would certainly like to reach the knock outs. 

Likes of Yuvraj Singh and JP Dumminy make the batting line up look strong. But they can taste success only if these two hit form! Shami and Zaheer Khan are believed to be unfit and unavailable for today's match. A lot relies of Imran Tahir and Amit Mishra in this match to contain the hard hitting Punjab players.

Toss would play a major role and 12 out of 18 times team batting first have won here at Pune. Team batting first would like to score above 160 to be in safe zone here at the MCA stadium.

Stay tuned with us for more match previews and reviews.

Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals - IPL 2015 Match 9

Mumbai Indians seems to be in a mood to repeat their 2014 performance where they lost few matches at the start. Rajasthan Royals have made two out of two so far. So Mumbai Indians are up against a good team that stand tall as another challenge at Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad. Watch MI vs RR live streaming on Star Sports and Hot Star mobile app. Watch live telecast on TV in India on Sony Six, Sony Pix and Sony Max with live Hindi, English, Telugu, Tamil and Bengali commentary.

After two impressive wins, Rajasthan Royals move towards their adopted home ground in Ahmedabad. RR registered an easy win over Kings XI Punjab in their first match. They had to fight hard to win against Delhi Daredevils. A match that looked like slipped away turned its course and Rajasthan won a last ball affair!

IPL always comes up with fresh talent. So far so good, Deepak Hooda has attracted a lot of eye balls. He has been impressive with his big hitting abilities. He hammered 54 runs from 25 balls to take his team home against Delhi Daredevils. Ajinkya Rahane and Smith would certainly be happy to have him in the team.

Mumbai Indians are down but not out. Its too early to say anything. But even Rohit Sharma and company would accept that they can't afford to lose too many matches at the start. Kolkata Knight Riders thumped them with a seven wicket easy win at Kolkata. Then they faced Kings XI Punjab at Wankhede Stadium. MI wickets fell like cards while chasing. It was Harbhajan's cameo that took them to a respectable total, still they lost by 18 runs!

A lot relies on Rohit Sharma and Aaron Finch to lay down a strong platform. Rayudu has looked out of form and even Corey Anderson looks a bit out of sorts. Pollard seems to be due for a big one. Even their bowling department isn't in a great form.

On paper, Rajasthan Royals look stronger. If Shane Watson returns to the playing XI that would be a big boost to the team. Rahane seems to be getting into his rhythm. Smith is in good form. A good knock from Faulkner or Hooda can take them home again. 

Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Live - IPL 2015 Match 8

The Royal Challengers of Bangalore will face the Sun Risers of Hyderabad today! Its a complete South Indian affair at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Get ready for another run storm tonight. Watch Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad live streaming on Hot Star mobile app and Star Sports official website. Enjoy IPL 2015 live telecast on Sony Six, Sony Pix and Set Max (Sony Max) with live commentary in Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali.

Royal Challengers Bangalore riding on Gayle's big knock thumped defending champions KKR in their last match. Once an impossible task to win looked so easy when Gayle got going. Before getting run out he had scored enough to see his team home. Even AB de Villiers played a small knock that came in handy. Virat Kohli is still due for a big one.

The overall performance for the team as a whole wasn't satisfactory. The bowling and fielding were below standard. Even the batting line up crumbled before Gayle took the charge to give two points to the team. He has set an example in this format of the game. He has played most number of T20s and has highest number of runs, sixes, centuries and fifties to his name. The only concern could be his fitness and inconsistency.

Sunrisers Hyderabad has always pitched in the best bowling line up since last few years. Even their batsmen have been able to score big. But luck has hardly favoured this team. They too could be termed as under-achievers just like Royal Challengers Bangalore. These two teams deserve much more than what they have got so far.

SRH needs to revisit all the strategies if they have to start winning more games. David Warner leads the side and he could be highly influential. He is a dangerous opening batsmen when he gets going. He has a good support of Shikhar Dhawan who consistently scores run for the team. 

It would be fun to see the contest between Hyderabad bowlers and Bangalore's batsmen, especially Steyn/Boult vs Gayle/AB de Villiers! Take a deep breathe, relax and enjoy another enthralling T20 match from the IPL 2015.

CSK vs SRH and RCB vs KKR Live Streaming

Super Saturday brings a double header! The mighty Chennai Super Kings face Sunrisers Hyderabad in the first match today. Royal Challengers Bangalore challenge the defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders in the second match. Watch IPL 2015 live streaming on Hot Star mobile app and Star Sports official website. Watch live telecast of these matches in India on Sony Six, Sony Max (Set Max) and Sony Pix with live commentary in Hindi and English.

Chepauk Stadium will host the first match that begins at 4pm Indian Standard Time. Chennai Super Kings clinched a one run win over Delhi Daredevils that doesn't bring too much of contentment to MS Dhoni. Boasting a strong batting line up consisting of Raina, McCullum, Faf du Plessis, Smith and Dhoni couldn't score more than 150. Some good fielding and bowling gave them a narrow win! They need to pull up their socks to provide an optimum performance.

Sunrisers Hyderabad have seen a bit of overhaul with David Warner now leading the side. He will open with Shikhar Dhawan. They have other good batters like Eoin Morgan and Kane Williamson. They have a strong batting line up to test the skills of Chennai batsmen. Dale Steyn, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar and Trent Boult can give nightmares to any opposition.

The second match comprises of defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders and one of the most fancied teams Royal Challengers Bangalore. The match will begin at 8pm IST.

Kolkata Knight Riders would love to continue their winning run with one of the openers sticking to the crease and middle order taking care of the acceleration. Gambir, Uthappa and Manish Pandey do a decent job up the order. They have a good bowling line up with Sunil Narine and Morne Morkel.

Royal Challengers Bangalore have lost their last three matches against Kolkata Knight Riders. RCB players need to come up with brilliant performance to go past the defending champions. Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers are good enough to face any bowling line up in the IPL. They would miss the absence of Mitchell Starc but they still have good bowlers like Sean Abbott, Adam Milne and Varun Aaron.

Let us see which two teams out of these four strong contenders come up as winners!

Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab - IPL 2015 Match 3

After two nail biters we now lead to Pune at MCA International Stadium. This happens to be a new home ground for Rajasthan Royals. They will try to adapt very soon here but before that they face mighty Kings XI Punjab in Pune for IPL 2015 third match. Watch the action live in India on TV through Sony Six, Sony Pix and Sony Max telecast. Enjoy live Hindi, English, Bengali, Telugu and Tamil commentary. Watch live streaming on Star Sports website and HotStar mobile app.

Rajasthan Royals will never forget their first ever title win when Shane Warne lead the team. Since then they haven't seen that amount of success. Hopefully the team will come out with flying colours under the captaincy of Shane Watson. Other two Rajasthan players from the world cup winning team are Steven Smith and James Faulkner.

Kings XI Punjab have seen a lot of overhauls so far in the IPL history. Last year they looked the best so far under George Bailey's captaincy and Sanjay Bangar's guidance. Glenn Maxwell and David Miller have been an integral part of the squad since last year.

Since both these teams have tried to retain a lot of players, they stayed a bit silent in the IPL auction. With not a lot of rejig in the squad, we can expect similar roles and tactics from the team think tanks.

Kings XI probably hosts the most explosive batting department this year. Sehwag, Maxwell and Miller are match winners while Murali Vijay can be rock solid. Manan Vohra and Wriddhiman Saha add a lot of value to the middle order with George Bailey. Bowling attack looks decent with Mitchell Johnson, Axar Patel, Sandeep Sharma and Parvinder Awana.

For Rajasthan Royals the story is little bit similar. Watson, Samson and Smith can handle the batting pressure along with solid Ajinkya Rahane. Tim Southee can lead the bowling attack with Faulkner, Watson, Binny, Dhawal Kulkarni and Tambe.

Although Rajasthan Royals have bettered out Kings XI Punjab in head to head count, the Punjabi team will do all possible things to go one match up in the stats so far.

Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Daredevils - IPL 2015 Match 2

IPL 2015 has already got a flying start with a high scoring first match between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders. Eden Gardens that supports slow bowling showed us how batsmen can freely score runs. That is an alarming situation for the bowlers. Let us hope we see some fightback from the bowlers in IPL's second match - Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Daredevils. Watch CSK vs DD live streaming on Star Sports and HotStar mobile app. Enjoy IPL 2015 live telecast on TV through Sony Six, Sony Max and Sony Pix channels with live Hindi and English commentary.

Chennai Super Kings (two times Champions) would face a re-jigged Delhi Daredevils. CSK has a good history of finishing in final four almost every year. So they would love to start the proceedings with a win over Delhi Daredevils. Meanwhile Delhi Daredevils might have a plan to stabilise the new team first. This team haven't seen good amount of success in last two editions.

CSK will take full advantage of Brendon McCullum's good form. He captained New Zealand team to an unbeaten entery into the world cup finals. He has always had a good support of Smith up the order. Michael Hussey might play one down followed by Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni.

Chennai's bowling line up looks strong with the likes of Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Mohit Sharma, Kyle Abbott, etc. The batting line up goes deep down with strong batsmen who can hit the ball well.

Delhi Daredevil's most interesting inclusion this year has to be Yuvraj Singh. Man of the series in 2011 cricket world cup, he not only carries charm but lot of talent with him. He can be high scoring as well as a good option for the captain to get a breakthrough while bowling.

JP Duminy was highest runs scorer for Delhi last year. He has been handed over the responsibility to lead the team. Sri Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews also forms a vital part of the team. The team also has many other important players who could turn tables on the mighty Chennai Super Kings.

Head to head Chennai has beaten Delhi Daredevils 10 out of 14 previous meetings. Let us see who opens this edition of IPL on a winning note. Pitch here at the MA Chindambaram Stadium in Chennai would definitely support the batsmen more than the bowlers.