IPL 2023: Schedule, timing, venues, squads and all you need to know about 16th season of IPL
Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023: The Indian Premier League (IPL 2023) action is all set to begin on March 31 (Friday) at reigning champions Gujarat Titans’ (GT) home ground in Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium where they will face MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings (CSK). So fasten your seatbelts and get ready to take an almost two-month-long voyage to watch 74 matches across 12 venues this season.
IPL 2023 Full Schedule
The BCCI announced the IPL 2023 schedule on February 17, 2023 and the 16th season will kickstart with a GT vs CSK blockbuster clash followed up the first double-header day where Punjab Kings (PBKS) vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) vs Delhi Capitals (DC) battles will be seen in Mohali and Lucknow respectively. Check the full IPL 2023 schedule here
IPL 2023 timings
The IPL 2023 will have 18 doubleheaders, with the day games starting at 3:30 PM and the evening games starting at 07:30 PM .
IPL 2023 venues
After staging IPL across Mumbai, Pune and Ahmedabad due to covid interruptions in the last edition, the IPL 2023 is back to the home and away format, where all the teams will play 7 home games and 7 away games respectively in the league stage. A total of 70 league-stage matches will be played across 12 venues over the course of 52 days.
IPL 2023 format
No change in the format of the event as the ten teams are divided into two groups of five. In the group stage, each team plays 14 games facing the other four teams in their group two times each (one home and one away game), four teams in the other group once, and the remaining team two times. As far as the points system is concerned, the team winning a match will be awarded 2 points, while the losing side gets 0. In case of a draw or no result, both teams will be awarded 1 point.
Four games will be played in the playoffs- Qualifier 1 will be between the teams ranked first and second in the group stage, Eliminator will be between the teams ranked third and fourth in the group stage, Qualifier 2 will be between the loser of Qualifier 1 and the winner of the Eliminator and the IPL final wil be between the winners of Qualifiers 1 and 2.
IPL 2023 Live Streaming Details
IPL 2023 will be broadcast on the Star India Network which will offer coverage in eight languages in the Indian subcontinent, – Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, and Kannada. Disney Star retained their Indian sub-continent TV rights paying Rs 23,575 crore (Rs 57.5 crore/game) while Viacom18 bagged the digital rights with a winning bid of Rs 23,578 crore. Reliance Jio has announced that it would be streaming the entire season of IPL 2023 free of cost in 4K resolution(UltraHD).
IPL 2023 Full Squads
All 10 teams, participating in the IPL 2023, have announced their full squads for the season with a few forced to making changes due to injury blows at the eleventh hour. Do check out the teamwise IPL 2023 Squads here:
1. Gujarat Giants Full Squad: Hardik Pandya, Shubman Gill, David Miller, Wriddhiman Saha,Matthew Wade, Abhinav Manohar, Sai Sudarshan Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Vijay Shankar, R Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Mohammad Shami, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Noor Ahmad, Darshan Nalkande, Pradeep Sangwan
2. Rajasthan Royals Full Squad: Karun Nair, Navdeep Saini, Riyan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer, Daryl Mitchell, James Neesham, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shubham Garhwal , KC Cariappa, Jos Buttler, Anunay Singh, Corbin Bosch, Dhruv Jurel, Kuldeep Sen , Kuldip Yadav, Rassie van der Dussen, Obed McCoy, Tejas Baroka.
3. Chennai Super Kings Full Squad: MS Dhoni (c), Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Subhranshu Senapati, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Chowdhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Simarjeet Singh, Deepak Chahar, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana, Ajinkya Rahane, Ben Stokes, Shaik Rasheed, Nishant Sindhu, Kyle Jamieson, Ajay Mandal, Bhagath Varma.
4. Delhi Capitals Full Squad: Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Prithvi Shaw, Anrich Nortje, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Sarfaraz Khan, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Mustafizur Rahman, Kuldeep Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed, Chetan Sakariya, Lalit Yadav, Ripal Patel, Yash Dhull, Rovman Powell, Pravin Dubey, Lungi Ngidi, Vicky Ostwal, Aman Khan, Phil Salt, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Manish Pandey, Rilee Rossouw
5. Royal Challengers Bangalore Full Squad: Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammad Siraj, Faf Du Plessis, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik, Shahbaz Ahemad, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Suyash Prabhudessai, Karn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, David Willey, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Sonu Yadav, Micheal Bracewell
6. Punjab Kings Full Squad: Shikhar Dhawan (c), Shahrukh Khan, Prabhsimran Singh, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma, Raj Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Baltej Singh, Nathan Ellis, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Brar, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Mohit Rathee, Shivam Singh.
7. Lucknow Super Kings Full Squad: KL Rahul, Ayush Badoni, Karan Sharma, Manan Vohra, Quinton de Kock, Marcus Stoinis, Krishnappa Gowtham, Deepak Hooda, Kyle Mayers, Krunal Pandya, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Nicholas Pooran, Jaydev Unadkat, Yash Thakur, Romario Shepherd, Daniel Sams, Amit Mishra, Prerak Mankad, Swapnil Singh, Naveen-ul-Haq, Yudhvir Charak.
8. Sunrisers Hyderabad Full Squad: Aiden Markram, Abdul Samad, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kartik Tyagi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, Harry Brook, Mayank Agarwal, Heinrich Klaasen, Adil Rashid, Mayank Markande, Vivrant Sharma, Samarth Vyas, Sanvir Singh, Upendra Yadav, Mayank Dagar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Anmolpreet Singh, Akeal Hosein
9. Mumbai Indians Full Squad: Rohit Sharma (C), Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Dewald Brevis, Tilak Varma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Tran Stubbs, Vishnu Vinod, Cameron Green, Arjun Tendulkar, Ramandeep Singh, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Hrithik Shokeen, Arshad Khan, Duan Jansen, Piyush Chawla, Kumar Kartikeya, Raghav Goyal, Jofra Archer, Jason Behrendorff, Akash Madhwal
10. Kolkata Knight Riders Full Squad: Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, N. Jagadeesan, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Sharma, David Wiese, Kulwant Khejroliya, Litton Das, Mandeep Singh, Shakib Al Hasan.
