India, March 23 -- The big Sunday showcase game in the IPL season's opening weekend will be the biggest of all rivalries in this tournament, as Chennai Super Kings prepare to take on the Mumbai Indians at the M Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. It's the yellow vs the blue, the two teams with the most IPL trophies to their name, as historic as franchise rivalries can get. At home, the pressure is on for CSK to start with a win.

CSK are another one of those teams that stuck with a very familiar core through the auction retention process, choosing to build around the pieces they already had in place. CSK missed the playoffs last year, an exceedingly rare occasion: they reached the playoffs of every tournament from 2008 to 2019. And while they...