Mumbai to play Pune in IPL 2016 opening match

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Aman Bansal
Mumbai Indians to face Pune Supergiants in the first match of IPL 2016.

Our report becomes verified today when IPL announced schedule for 2016 edition and Mumbai Indians and Rising Pune Supergiants will take on each other in the opening match of tournament on 9th April. We reported earlier that IPL 2016’s first match will be played between Pune and Mumbai, and it becomes true. We also mentioned that schedule would announce on Wednesday but it didn’t happen yesterday as officials were busy to solve indo-pak wt20 match venue issue.

We also reported that first qualifier of the tournament will be played on 24 whereas eliminator to be held on 27. We said, “Two qualifiers, 1 eliminator and final match are to play during 6-day time period. The first qualifier match will be played on 24 May between the top two teams of the group stage and winner of this match will proceed to final. Loser of this game will have one more chance to play second qualifier on 27 May which will be against the winner of Eliminator which will be played on 25 May, 2016.”

10 venues Mumbai, Kolkata, Mohali, Bengaluru, Rajkot, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune, Nagpur and Raipur will host 58 matches of Indian Premier League ninth edition. Two Gujarat Lions matches venue are yet to be confirmed. Match 51 and 54 venues are not declared.
Mumbai Indians are the title defending champions in the competition.
 
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