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Opening Match in IPL Season 8 between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians

Eighth season of Indian Premier League 2015 (IPL 8) starts from 8th april 2015 and finals will be played on 24th may 2015. Opening match in IPL season 8 will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians at 1 20:00 IST (14:30 GMT) on Wednesday April 8th 2015 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.



KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS
Gautam Gambhir (C), Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa (W), Piyush Chawla, Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hasan, Morne Morkel, Umesh Yadav, Manish Pandey, Pat Cummins, Ryan ten Doeschate, Suryakumar Yadav, Andre Russell, Veer Pratap Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Brad Hogg, Sumit Narwal, Sheldon Jackson, Aditya Garhwal, KC Cariappa, Vaibhav Rawal, Azhar Mahmood, Johan Botha

MUMBAI INDIANS
Rohit Sharma (C), Lasith Malinga, Kieron Pollard, Ambati Rayudu (W), Harbhajan Singh, Corey Anderson, Aditya Tare, Jasprit Bumrah, Josh Hazlewood, Marchant de Lange, Pawan Suyal, Shreyas Gopal, Lendl Simmons, Aaron Finch, Pragyan Ojha, Mitchell McClenaghan, Abhimanyu Mithun, Aiden Blizzard, Akshay Wakhare, Nitish Rana, Siddhesh Lad, Hardik Pandya, Jagadeesha Suchitch, Unmukt Chand, Vinay Kumar, Parthiv Pate

MATCH OFFICIALS IN IPL SEASON 8
The Pepsi IPL 2015 season will see 26 match officials, 13 Indian umpires and four match referees who will be officiating. Twenty six match officials (Umpires and Referees) participated in a two-day workshop, organised by the BCCI