7.05pm - Delhi win toss, opt to bowl

"The pitch is a bit soft to start with," reasons Pant. Also says how he will be a "mix of experience and youth as a captain" and reveals that Stoinis, Tom Curran, Woakes and Hetmyer will be the four overseas players.

Dhoni, looking a lot calmer, named Faf du Plessis, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran and Dwayne Bravo are his four overseas players.

Here are the playing XIs:

Chennai: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni(w/c), Moeen Ali, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar

Delhi: Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Woakes, Ravichandran Ashwin, Tom Curran, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan

6.35pm - Building up to the contest

Experience vs youth isn't a new narrative when it comes to CSK games. That's been the case for a while now -- they've been called "daddy's army", remember? -- but today feels a little more exaggerated. It's Pant as the opposition captain after all, the man who replaced Dhoni in the Indian Cricket Team and had his own journey back and forth to the top. It will be his first game as the captain of Delhi Capitals today and it will be interesting to see how he adapts to the responsibility. Will be remain as much of a risk-taker?

Bharath Ramaraj has succinctly previewed the season for DC. "For starters, DC has a few worries surrounding the availability of their key players," he writes. You can read the full preview here.

At the CSK end of things, we have Prakash Govindasreenivasan. "For a side that's perhaps looking forward to the big auctions and a complete reset more than most others, the addition of a fourth year to the cycle provides a rare chance to alter the narrative one last time," he writes, perfectly summing up the mood going into this season. Read the full preview here.