IPL 2024 - All You Wants to Know

Introduction

Let's know about the world’s biggest T20 cricket franchise league. As you know, the IPL Indian Premier League is the world’s most successful cricket franchise league. It was started by the BCCI (India) in 2008. After a successful first season, it was contested annually and became a famous event in T20 franchise cricket. Let me share with you squads of all franchises announced after auctions and schedule details:

Teams of IPL 2024 and their Squad

Here I am going to share with you all the team's squad and captain details.

1. RCB (Royal Challengers Bangalore)
2. KKR (Kolkata Knight Riders)
3. RR (Rajasthan Royals)
4. SRH (Sunrisers Hyderabad)
5. PBKS (Punjab Kings)
6. DC (Delhi Capitals)
7. CSK (Chennai Super Kings)
8. MI (Mumbai Indians)
9. GT (Gujarat Titans)
10. LSG (Lucknow Supergiant)

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Royal Challengers Banglore (RCB)

Faf Du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, S Prabhudessaih, Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Agarwal, Vyshak Vijay Kumar,, Akash Deep, Mohammad Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Cameron Green, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Tom Curran, Lockie, Ferguson, Swapnil Singh, and Saurav Chauhan.

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)

Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, R Gurbaz, Jason Roy, Sunil Narine, Suyah Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, V Chakarvarth, KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Mithcell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb Ur Rehman, and Sakib Hussain.

Rajasthan Royals (RR)

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

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)

Aiden Markram, Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Rahul Tripathi, W Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Tanvir Singh, Heinrich Klaasen, Mayank Agarwal, T Natarajan, Bhuveneshwar Kumar, Anmolpreet Singh, Mayank Markhande, Upendra Singh Yadav, Umran Malik, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Shahbaz Ahmed, Travis Head, Wanindu Harasanga, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh, and J Subramanyan.

Punjab Kings (PBKS)

Shikhar Dhawan, Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Sikandar Raza, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Shivam Singh, Harshal Patel, Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath P Singh, Shashank Singh, Tanay Thyagarajann, Prince Choudhry, and Rilee Rossouw.

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Delhi Capitals (DC)

David Warner, Rishabh Pant, Pravin Dubbey, Vicky Ostwal, Prithvi Shaw, Anrich Nortje, Abishek Porel, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Lungi Ngidi, Lalit Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed, Mitchell Marsh, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Harry Brook, Tristan Stubbs, Ricky Bhui, Kumar Kushagra, Rasikh Dar, Jhye Richardson, Sumit Kumar, Shai Hope, and Swastik Chhikara.

Chennai Super Kings (CSK)

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

Mumbai Indians (MI)

Hardik Pandya Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Verma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Jason Behrendorff, Romario Shepherd, Gerald Coetzee, Dilshan Madhushanka, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Muhammad Nabi, and Shivalik Sharma.

Gujarat Titans (GT)

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

Lucknow Supergiants (LSG)

KL Rahul, Quinton De Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen ul Haq, Krunal Pandya, Yudhvir Singh, Prerak Mankand, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Mark Wood, Mark Wood, Mayan Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Krishnappa Gowtham, Devdutt Padikkal, Shivam Mavi, Arshin Kulkarni, Manimaran Siddharth, David Willey, Ashton Turner, and Muhammad Arshad Khan.

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Purple Cap Winners Over The Years

• 2008 - S Tanvir (RR)
• 2009 - RP Singh (DC)
• 2010 - P Ojha (DC)
• 2011 - L Malinga (MI)
• 2012 - M Morkel (DD)
• 2013 - D Bravo (CSK
• 2014 - M Sharma (CSK)
• 2015 - D Bravo (CSK)
• 2016 - B Kumar (SRH)
• 2017 - B Kumar (SRH)
• 2018 - A Tye (PBKS)
• 2019 - I Tahir (CSK)
• 2020 - K Rabada (DC)
• 2021 - H Patel (RCB)
• 2022 - Y Chahal (RR)
• 2023 - M Shami (GT)

Orange Cap Winners Over The Years

• 2008 - Shaun Marsh (PBKS)
• 2009 - Matthew Hayden (CSK)
• 2010 - Sachin Tendulkar (MI)
• 2011 - Chris Gayle (RCB)
• 2012 - Chris Gayle (RCB)
• 2013 - Michael Hussey (CSK)
• 2014 - Robin Uhappa (KKR)
• 2015 - David Warner (SRH)
• 2016 - Virat Kohli (RCB)
• 2017 - David Warner (SRH)
• 2018 - Kane Williamson (SRH)
• 2019 - David Warner (DC)
• 2020 - KL Rahul (PBKS)
• 2021 - Ruturaj Gaikwad (CSK)
• 2022 - Jos Buttler (RR)
• 2023 - Shubman Gill (GT)

IPL 2024 All Team Schedule

Here is the schedule of the first 21 matches.

Date	Match	Venue	Time
March 22, Friday	Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore	Chennai	8:00 PM
March 23, Saturday	Punjab Kings vs Delhi Capitals	Mohali	3:30 PM
March 23, Saturday	Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad	Kolkata	7:30 PM
March 24, Sunday	Rajasthan Royals vs Lucknow Super Giants	Jaipur	3:30 PM
March 24, Sunday	Gujarat Titans vs Mumbai Indians	Ahmedabad	7:30 PM
March 25, Monday	Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Punjab Kings	Bengaluru	7:30 PM
March 26, Tuesday	Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans	Chennai	7:30 PM
March 27, Wednesday	Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Mumbai Indians	Hyderabad	7:30 PM
March 28, Thursday	Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals	Jaipur	7:30 PM
March 29, Friday	Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders	Bengaluru	7:30 PM
March 30, Saturday	Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings	Lucknow	7:30 PM
March 31, Sunday	Gujarat Titans vs Sunrisers Hyderabad	Ahmedabad	3:30 PM
March 31, Sunday	Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings	Vizag	7:30 PM
April 1, Monday	Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals	Mumbai	7:30 PM
April 2, Tuesday	Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Lucknow Super Giants	Bengaluru	7:30 PM
April 3, Wednesday	Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders	Vizag	7:30 PM
April 4, Thursday	Gujarat Titans vs Punjab Kings	Ahmedabad	7:30 PM
April 5, Friday	Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Chennai Super Kings	Hyderabad	7:30 PM
April 6, Saturday	Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore	Jaipur	7:30 PM
April 7, Sunday	Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals	Mumbai	3:30 PM
April 7, Sunday	Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans	Lucknow	7:30 PM

Some historical facts:

Its first edition was played back in 2008. After the success of the first season and fans' love for the league, it has become the biggest franchise cricket league. Now its 16th season will be played this year.

In its first edition, Sony Sports won the bid for TV broadcasting rights worth 82000 crore Indian rupees. Sony Sports won rights for the 2008-2016 cycle. Later, Star Sports India won the bid for TV streaming rights for 2.55 billion dollars for the 2017-2022 cycle. Now this time, IPL sold its rights for digital streaming and TV broadcasting separately. Star Sports won the bid for TV broadcasting rights for 6.2 billion dollars for the 2023 to 2027 season. IPL fans can watch live streaming of matches on Jio Cinema in 4k resolution for free.

Conclusion

So, I hope you liked my effort and will appreciate it in the comments. The IPL 2024 season is going to be more bigger and exciting for cricket fans and we will witness high-voltage action and jam-packed stadiums. As a cricket fan, I would love to watch nail-biting finishes and some hard-hitting during the tournament. If you get a chance to witness live action in the stadium, kindly share your thoughts and feelings with me and other readers in the comments section. Thanks!

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: When does IPL 2024 begin and when is the final? 

A: IPL 2024 is set to begin on March 22, with the final expected to be held on May 261.

Q: Are there any changes in the number of games this season? 

A: The tournament will have 70 league matches, with each team playing 14 matches. The playoffs will include Qualifier 1, an Eliminator, Qualifier 2, and the final.

Q: What are the match timings?

A: On days with only one game, play will commence at 7.30pm IST. On double-header days, matches will be played at 3.30pm IST and 7.30pm IST respectively.

Q: Who are the new captains for IPL 2024? 

A: Hardik Pandya has moved back to Mumbai Indians, replacing Rohit Sharma. Shubman Gill will lead Gujarat Titans, and Rishabh Pant will captain Delhi Capitals. Pat Cummins is the new captain for Sunrisers Hyderabad, and Shreyas Iyer returns as captain for KKR.

Q: Are there any new venues for IPL 2024? 

A: Punjab Kings will play some of their home games in Mullanpur, a new venue for IPL. They will also play two home games in Dharamsala. Delhi Capitals will play their first two home games in Visakhapatnam before moving back to Delhi.