Stephen Fleming

MS Dhoni leads the highly-successful Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Chennai Super Kings, for whom Shane Watson plays, with Stephen Fleming being the head coach

Gautam Gambir, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday, had said that Virat Kohli has been "lucky" to have survived in a result-oriented franchise like RCB despite never winning the title in his eight years as skipper.

Once again, the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will enter the world's most famous cricket league as one of the favourites.

Dismissing there would be 'confrontation' between the two teams, the New Zealand skipper says 'It is a non-confrontation series. But we are also realistic about the touch competition ahead.'

'There seems to be a real determination from India to make it as hard as possible for us, after what happened last summer. If that's the case, we'll respond pretty well,' says the Kiwi skipper on his anticipation of being greeted by spin-friendly tra

'I do worry about the type of pitches we are going to get after what happened in New Zealand during the summer,' says the skipper

Throwing the gauntlet to the Indians, the skipper expresses confidence of coping with turning pitches when the Kiwis tour India later this year.

"Steve (Waugh) is a wonderful captain. Ricky is doing an excellent job in one-day cricket but Fleming is excellent. He is probably the best in the world," wrote Shane Warne in The Daily Telegraph