Cricket’s richest franchise match – the Indian Premier League (IPL) – is about to return this weekend as defending champions Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK) start their title defence at dwelling towards Royal Challengers Bangalore.
The seventeenth season of the T20 league will start on March 22 at 8pm native time (14:30 GMT) on the MA Chidambaram Stadium in India’s southern metropolis of Chennai, the place the five-time champions can anticipate a rapturous welcome by the house crowd.
Right here’s what it’s essential know concerning the match:
What’s the IPL schedule?
The practically two-month-long match will start on Friday, March 22. Final month, organisers introduced a partial schedule for the primary 21 fixtures till April 7 because the dates of India’s upcoming common election had not been introduced on the time.
Points associated to the administration and safety of the match while the nation goes to polls are understood to be behind the curtailed schedule announcement.
The election schedule was introduced final week, with the polls working from April 19 to June 4, and IPL organisers are anticipated to launch the dates of the remaining fixtures within the subsequent few days.
Day video games will start at 3:30pm native time (10:00 GMT) and night time video games will start at 7:30pm native time (14:00 GMT).
The wait is over 🥳
𝙎𝘾𝙃𝙀𝘿𝙐𝙇𝙀 for the primary 2⃣1⃣ matches of #TATAIPL 2024 is out!
Which fixture are you trying ahead to probably the most 🤔 pic.twitter.com/HFIyVUZFbo
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) February 22, 2024
What number of groups will play in IPL 2024?
The IPL launched as an eight-team match in 2008, however the configuration has modified on a number of events as franchises had been suspended (on corruption costs)], dropped from the match or renamed.
Nevertheless, this would be the third consecutive season that the identical 10 groups make up the league. They’re:
- Chennai Tremendous Kings
- Delhi Capitals
- Gujarat Titans
- Kolkata Knight Riders
- Lucknow Tremendous Giants
- Mumbai Indians
- Punjab Kings
- Rajasthan Royals
- Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Sunrisers Hyderabad
What’s the format of IPL’s 2024 season?
Very like the configuration of the groups, the match’s schedule has been modified on a couple of events. The league began in a round-robin format, but it surely was modified to a bunch format in its final version and this season all 10 groups will play one another twice with the return of the round-robin format.
The highest two groups on the finish of the league video games will play the primary qualifier whereas the third- and fourth-placed groups will face off within the eliminator.
The winner of the primary qualifier will e-book a spot within the remaining, whereas the loser will play the winner of the eliminator within the second qualifier. The winner of this match will change into the second group to qualify for the ultimate.
Who’re the ten IPL captains?
There was some chopping and altering forward of this season, with a brand new chief taking cost of the joint most profitable group Mumbai Indians. Listed here are the groups and their captains:
Chennai Tremendous Kings: MS Dhoni
Delhi Capitals: Rishabh Pant
Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer
Lucknow Tremendous Giants: KL Rahul
Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya
Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan
Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins
Able to ROAR 🐯
Welcome again, Rishabh Pant.Can’t wait to see you ❤️💙#YehHaiNayiDilli pic.twitter.com/4jz0wFppFb
— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) March 12, 2024
IPL 2024 venues
As every group will play the opposite 9 groups twice, the match will probably be performed in a home-and-away format.
The venues for the qualifiers, eliminator and remaining haven’t been confirmed.
Delhi Capitals will play their first two dwelling video games at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, whereas the scenic Dharamsala Stadium within the northern Himachal Pradesh state can also be anticipated to host a couple of video games.
The venues and their dwelling groups are:
- MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai – Chennai Tremendous Kings
- Arun Jaitley Stadium, New Delhi – Delhi Capitals
- Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad – Gujarat Titans
- M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru – Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Eden Gardens, Kolkata – Kolkata Knight Riders
- BRSABV Ekana Stadium, Lucknow – Lucknow Tremendous Giants
- Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai – Mumbai Indians
- Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Worldwide Cricket Stadium, Punjab – Punjab Kings
- Swai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur – Rajasthan Royals
- Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Stadium, Hyderabad – Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam
- HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh
Who’re previous IPL champions?
Chennai Tremendous Kings: 2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, 2023
Mumbai Indians: 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020
Kolkata Knight Riders: 2012, 2014
Rajasthan Royals: 2008
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 2016
Gujarat Titans: 2022
Deccan Chargers: 2009
Get the whistles prepared, the defending champions led by @msdhoni are all set for #TATAIPL 2024 😎@ChennaiIPL followers, prepare to color the city Yellove! 💛 pic.twitter.com/ZOsWLm6o28
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) March 18, 2024
Who’s the costliest signing of IPL 2024?
Australia’s Mitchell Starc grew to become the costliest signing within the historical past of the IPL, topping the file determine paid for teammate Pat Cummins on the competitors’s 2024 public sale in December.
Starc, who was final within the IPL eight years in the past, was purchased by Kolkata Knight Riders for $2.98m. That beat the price paid by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Cummins, who went for $2.46m.
Earlier than this public sale, the file signing was England bowler Sam Curran after he joined Punjab Kings for $2.23m final yr.
How a lot is the prize cash?
Whereas the prize cash for this yr’s IPL has not been confirmed by organisers, if earlier years are something to go by, the IPL purse this time round is predicted to be round $6m.
The 2024 champions may take dwelling roughly $2.4m and runners up $1.56m.