IPL 2024: Squads, Venues, Schedule, Rules and more

The 2024 Indian Premier League branded as TATA IPL 2024 will be the 17th edition of the Indian Premier League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league in India, organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.  The tournament will feature ten teams and will be held from 22 March 2024.  Last date of the tournament along with second part of the schedule yet to be announced.

Chennai Super Kings are the defending champions, having won their fifth title during the previous season beating Gujarat Titans, becoming the joint-successful franchise in the history of the tournament along with Mumbai Indians

There are changes in Captains, team names, rules format and stadiums 

First game will be played on 22nd of March 2024

A total of 70 league stage matches will be played across 11 stadiums (information yet to be confirmed)

The venues for the Playoffs and Final will be announced later. 

Teams of  IPL 2024

Chennai Super Kings (CSK)

Delhi Capitals (DC)

Gujarat Titans (GT)

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)

Mumbai Indians (MI)

Punjab Kings (PBKS)

Rajasthan Royals (RR) 

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)

Venues for IPL 2024

GT Home stadium - Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad

PBKS Home Stadiums - Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mallanpur

LSG Home Stadium - Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow

SRH Home Stadium - Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad

RCB Home Stadium - M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

CSK Home Stadium - MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

DC Home Stadiums - Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi and ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Vishakhapatnam

RR Home Stadium - Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

KKR Home Stadium - Eden Gardens, Kolkata

MI Home Stadium - Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

Match times for IPL 2024

The night matches begin at 7.30 pm IST, while the day matches will have an afternoon start at 3.30 pm IST

Opening match and may be the final match will have some ceremonies prior to the match, hence they start at 8:00 PM IST.

Past winners of IPL

2008: Rajasthan Royals 

2009: Deccan Chargers

2010: Chennai Super Kings

2011: Chennai Super Kings

2012: Kolkata Knight Riders

2013: Mumbai Indians

2014: Kolkata Knight Riders

2015: Mumbai Indians

2016: SunRisers Hyderabad

2017: Mumbai Indians

2018: Chennai Super Kings

2019: Mumbai Indians

2020: Mumbai Indians

2021: Chennai Super Kings

2022: Gujarat Titans

2023: Chennai Super Kings

All 10 teams are divided into two groups.

Group A comprises Mumbai Indians, KKR, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants.

Group B will have Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Punjab Kings and Gujarat Titans.

Each team will play 2 games (Home and away) with all the teams in the other group and one game with the remaining teams in their own group.  This is a change from the previous format.

Each team will play 14 games in total which includes 7 home games and 7 away games.

Fixtures (All times IST)

All matches start at 7:30 PM IST unless otherwise mentioned.

March 22 - CSK vs RCB in Chennai

March 23 - PBKS vs DC in Mullanpur at 3:30 PM

March 23 - KKR vs SRH in Kolkata

March 24 - RR vs LSG in Jaipur at 3:30 PM

March 24 - GT vs MI in Ahmedabad

March 25 - RCB vs PBKS in Bengaluru

March 26 - CSK vs GT in Chennai

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March 27 - SRH vs MI in Hyderabad

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March 28 - RR vs DC in Jaipur

March 29 - RCB vs KKR in Bengaluru

March 30 - LSG vs PBKS in Lucknow

March 31 - GT vs SRH in Ahmedabad at 3:30 PM

March 31 - DC vs CSK in Visakhapatnam

April 1 - MI vs RR in Mumbai

April 2 - RCB vs LSG in Bengaluru

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April 3 - DC vs KKR in Visakhapatnam

April 4 - GT vs PBKS in Ahmedabad

April 5 - SRH vs CSK in Hyderabad

April 6 - RR vs RCB in Jaipur

April 7 - MI vs DC in Mumbai at 3:30 PM

April 7 - LSG vs GT in Lucknow

April 8 - CSK vs KKR in Chennai

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April 9 - PBKS vs SRH in Mohali

April 10 - RR vs GT in Jaipur

April 11 - MI vs RCB in Mumbai

April 12 - LSG vs DC in Lucknow 

April 13 - PBKS vs RR in Mohali

April 14 - KKR vs LSG in Kolkata at 3:30 PM

April 14 - MI vs CSK in Mumabi

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April 15 - RCB vs SRH in Bengaluru

April 16 - KKR vs RR in Kolkata

April 17 - GT vs DC in Ahmedabad

April 18 - PBKS vs MI in Mohali

April 19 - LSG vs CSKLucknow

April 20 - DC vs SRH Delhi

April 21 - KKR vs RCB Kolkata at 3:30 PM

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April 21 - PBKS vs GT Mohali

April 22 - RR vs MI Jaipur

April 23 - CSK vs LSG Chennai

April 24 - DC vs GT Delhi

April 25 - SRH vs RCB Hyderabad

April 26 - KKR vs PBKS Kolkata

April 27 - DC vs MI Delhi at 3:30 PM

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April 27 - LSG vs RR Lucknow

April 28 - GT vs RCB Ahmedabad at 3:30PM

April 28 - CSK vs SRH Chennai

April 29 - KKR vs DC Kolkata

April 30 - LSG vs MI Lucknow

May 1 - CSK vs PBKS Chennai

May 2 - SRH vs RR Hyderabad

Madhu:

May 3 - MI vs KKR Mumbai

May 4 - RCB vs GT Bengaluru

May 5 - PBKS vs CSK Dharamsala at 3:30 PM

May 5 - LSG vs KKR Lucknow

May 6 - MI vs SRH Mumbai

May 7 - DC vs RR Delhi

May 8 - SRH vs LSG Hyderabad

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May 9 - PBKS vs RCB Dharamasala

May 10 - GT vs CSK Ahmedabad

May 11 - KKR vs MI Kolkata

May 12 - CSK vs RR Chennai at 3:30 PM

May 12 - RCB vs DC Bengaluru

May 13 - GT vs KKR Ahmedabad

May 14 - DC VS LSG Delhi

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May 15 - RR vs PBKS Guwahati

May 16 - SRH vs GT Hyderabad

May 17 - MI vs LSG Mumbai

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May 18 - RCB vs CSK Bengaluru

May 19 - SRH vs PBKS Hyderabad at 3:30 PM

May 19 RR vs KKR Guwahati

May 21 - Qualifier 1 Ahmedabad

May 22 - Eliminator Ahmedabad

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May 24 - Qualifier Chennai

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May 26 - Final Chennai

Captains

Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad

Delhi Capitals: Rishabh Pant

Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill

Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer

Lucknow Super 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

Teams

Chennai Super Kings

MS Dhoni, Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Nishant Sindhu, Ajay Mandal, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Mukesh Chowdhary, Prashant Solanki, Simarjeet Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Matheesha Pathirana, Rachin Ravindra, Shardul Thakur, Daryl Mitchell, Sameer Rizvi, Mustafizur Rahman, Avanish Rao Aravelly

Delhi Capitals

Rishabh Pant, David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Yash Dhull, Abishek Porel, Axar Patel, Lalit Yadav, Mitchell Marsh, Pravin Dubey, Vicky Ostwal, Anrich Nortje, Kuldeep Yadav, Lungi Ngidi, Khaleel Ahmed, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Harry Brook (withdrawn), Tristan Stubbs, Ricky Bhui, Kumar Kushagra, Rasikh Dar, Jhye Richardson, Sumit Kumar, Shai Hope, Swastik Chhikara, Jake Fraser-McGurk (replacement for Lungi Ngidi)

Gujarat Titans

David Miller, Shubman Gill, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, B Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Mohammed Shami, Noor Ahmad, R Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Josh Little, Mohit Sharma, Azmatullah Omarzai, Umesh Yadav, Shahrukh Khan, Sushant Mishra, Kartik Tyagi, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson, Robin Minz

Kolkata Knight Riders

Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shreyas Iyer, Jason Roy, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Suyash Sharma, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy, KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Gus Atkinson, Sakib Hussain, Dushmantha Chameera (replacement for Gus Atkinson), Phil Salt (replacement for Jason Roy)

Lucknow Super Giants

KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Deepak Hooda, K Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Prerak Mankad, Yudhvir Singh, Mark Wood (withdrawn, replaced by Shamar Joseph), Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Naveen-ul-Haq, Devdutt Padikkal, Shivam Mavi, Arshin Kulkarni, M. Siddharth, Ashton Turner, David Willey, Arshad Khan

Mumbai Indians

Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Jason Behrendorff (withdrawn), Romario Shepherd, Hardik Pandya, Gerald Coetzee, Dilshan Madushanka, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma, Luke Wood (replacement for Jason Behrendorff)

Punjab Kings

Shikhar Dhawan, Jitesh Sharma, Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Liam Livingstone, Matthew Short, Harpreet Bhatia, Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Shivam Singh, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar, Gurnoor Brar, Vidwath Kaverappa, Harshal Patel, Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Shashank Singh, Tanay Thyagarajan, Prince Choudhary, Rilee Rossouw

Rajasthan Royals

Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, R Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Abid Mushtaq, Nandre Burger

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Dagar (trade), Vyshak Vijaykumar, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Cameron Green, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Lockie Ferguson, Tom Curran, Swapnil Singh, Saurav Chauhan

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Agarwal, Heinrich Klaasen, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Yadav, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Sanvir Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, Mayank Markande, Shahbaz Ahmed, Travis Head, Wanindu Hasaranga, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh, Jhathavedh Subramanyan

Points Table as on 08.04.2024.

I would love to see teams moving up and down and fighting really hard to get into knockout stages. 

Cheers..