The first match of the Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) will begin at 5 pm today in Vishakapatnam. The curtain raiser match between Bollywood and South Indian stars will be the first one in the series. The South Superstars, will be captained by Venkatesh and the team members include Sarath Kumar, Suriya, Arya, Shanthanu, Abbas, Vikram, Tarun and others. The captain for the Bollywood team will be Salman Khan with Riteish Deshmukh, Suneil Shetty and others.
The ambassadors for the South Indian stars will be Priyamani, Shriya and Charmi and for the Bollywood team it is Genelia and Sonakshi Sinha.
The match will be in the IPL format with each team playing 20 over innings. The rest of the matches will be held in Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru.