IPL 2009 opening ceremony held today
The opening ceremony of the most expected the IPL 2009 second season is going to hold today night. The Cape Town is fully prepared to celebrate the lightning ceremony but the matches will be kicked off on April 18, 2009. Tomorrow, the inaugural match will be grounded between IPL Mumbai vs IPL Chennai and IPL Bangalore vs IPL Rajasthan Newlands, Cape Town. The viewers can watch it in TV channels from diffrents parts of the Globe.
Nine floats, one for each of the eight teams plus one for the IPL cricket, made their way along one of the main streets, accompanied by energetic Indian dancers and brass bands drawn from the local community.
More than 150 cricketers were in attendance, as were Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Shilpa Shetty, part-owners of the Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals respectively.
The final match will be held in Johannesburg on 27 May just a few days of the second season of the ICC Twenty20 world championship 2009 that will he inaugurated by England this year.
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