Five-time winners and defending champions Chennai Super Kings will tackle Royal Challengers Bangalore on March 22 in Chennai to kick-off the seventeenth version of the Indian Premier League. The BCCI introduced the schedule of the primary 21 league matches to be performed over two weeks between March 22 and April 7. The itinerary of the remainder of the matches will probably be introduced sooner or later, as soon as the Election Commission declares dates of the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections.
MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli will quickly share the identical floor once more(Twitter)
IPL Chairman Arun Dhumal has already made it clear that all the match will probably be staged in India, regardless of conflict of dates with the Union elections. It was solely in 2009, when the cricket mela needed to be shifted to South Africa, because the organizers have been unable to work a schedule across the elections.
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“As in the past, the BCCI will work closely with government and security agencies, following all necessary protocols and advisories related to the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections in India. Once the dates for the 18th Lok Sabha elections are announced, the Board will review and address any issues pertaining to the schedule of the first two weeks,” BCCI secretary Jay Shah mentioned in a press release.
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“Subsequently, the BCCI will work in tandem with local authorities to finalize the schedule for the remainder of the season, taking into account the polling dates.”
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In the schedule made official to this point, all groups besides Delhi Capitals are enjoying house matches at their common house base. The Delhi franchise have been pressured to take their first two house matches exterior Delhi because the Arun Jaitley stadium pitches can be worn out, with 11 Women’s Premier League matches to be performed in a span of 12 days between March 5-17. DC has opted to play these matches at Visakhapatnam.
Although, not having the ability to maximise house benefit at your private home base is seen as a big setback, DC has had complaints previously of not being supplied pitches to their satisfaction by the native affiliation. They would hope, the extra two weeks would permit the curators to have the ability to put issues so as.
There will probably be a complete of 4 double-headers to be performed over the primary two weeks with the night matches beginning at 7.30 pm. Only the CSK-RCB opening match starring MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli will start at 8pm, following the opening ceremony. As per BCCI’s discussions with the broadcasters and franchise officers, one learns that the IPL closing can be performed on May 26, 5 days earlier than the beginning of the T20 World Cup in USA-West Indies.
Like yearly, the IPL will probably be 74-matches lengthy, together with the 4 knockout matches.
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