2024 IPL
 TATA IPL 2024 logo | |
| Dates | 22 March – TBD |
|---|---|
| Administrator(s) | Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) |
| Cricket format | Twenty20 |
| Tournament format(s) | Group stage and playoffs |
| Host(s) | India |
| Participants | 10 |
| Matches | 74 |
| Official website | iplt20 |
| Teams | |
|---|---|
| Chennai Super Kings Delhi Capitals Gujarat Titans Kolkata Knight Riders Lucknow Super Giants Mumbai Indians Punjab Kings Rajasthan Royals Royal Challengers Bengaluru Sunrisers Hyderabad |
The 2024 Indian Premier League (also known as IPL 17 and branded as TATA IPL 2024) is 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.[1] The tournament will feature ten teams and will be held from 22 March to 26 May 2024.[2]
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.[3]
Background
Hosting
On February 14, 2024, Arun Singh Dhumal, the chairman of the Indian Premier League, announced that the tournament would take place in India. Before finalizing the schedule, the league will work with the Indian government and other agencies. Dhumal also mentioned that the allocation of matches to states will depend on the election schedule for the Lok Sabha Election 2024 to be released by the Election Commission of India.[2][4]
"BCCI is planning to start IPL 2024 from March 22. IPL 2024 schedule will be announced in two halves. The schedule for the first half will be announced and then the schedule for the other half will be announced after the announcement of general election dates," Arun Dhumal told ANI.[5]
Format
The teams are divided into two groups (A and B) of five teams. Each team plays twice against all five teams in the other group (home and away) and once against all four of the teams in its group. All teams play seven home and seven away games. After the group stage, the top four teams based on aggregate points qualified for the playoffs. In this stage, the top two teams compete with each other (in a match titled "Qualifier 1"), as do the remaining two teams (in a match titled "Eliminator"). While the winner of Qualifier 1 directly qualified for the final match, the losing team got another chance to qualify for the final match by playing the winning team of the Eliminator match; this match is titled Qualifier 2. The winner of this subsequent Qualifier 2 match moved on to the final match. The team that won the final match was crowned the Indian Premier League winners.
New rules
- Bowlers can now bowl two bouncers per over, as trialled in India's domestic T20 tournament, the 2023–24 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.[6]
Schedule
The schedule for this season was announced on February 22, 2024, at 5 pm. According to IPL Chairman Arun Singh Dhumal, this season's schedule will be announced in multiple phases due to the 2024 Lok Sabha Election. The first announcement includes the schedule for the first 17 days, consisting of 21 matches. The opening match of the tournament was played on 22 March 2024 at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai between the defending champions Chennai Super Kings and the Royal Challengers Bengaluru.[7] The final match will be played on 26 May 2024.[8]
Title sponsorship rights
The Tata Group renewed their contract as the title sponsors of the Indian Premier League for a tenure of 5 years (2024-28) for ₹2,500 crore (US$310 million) — the highest-ever sponsorship amount in the history of the league. The TATA Group previously held the title sponsorship rights for the IPL in 2022 and 2023.[9]
Broadcasting
Star Sports is the official TV broadcaster of the season, while JioCinema is the official digital broadcaster.
Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony took place on 22 March at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, with Tiger Shroff, Akshay Kumar, Sonu Nigam, and A. R. Rahman performing.[10]
Participating teams
The same 10 teams from the previous season have returned with few changes to the team personnel.
Personnel changes
Player auction
- The ten franchises retained 173 players for the 2024 IPL season before moving into the auction. Seven players were traded across teams before the auction took place.[29]
- On 11 December, the IPL Council released a list of 333 players, including 214 Indian and 119 foreign players.[30]
- The IPL Auction for the first time was held outside India. It was held at Coca-Cola Arena, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 19 December 2023.[31]
- 72 players were sold at the 2024 IPL Auction by spending a whopping Rs 230 crore on the players, including 30 overseas players.[32]
- Mitchell Starc became the most expensive player in the history of IPL when he was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹24.75 crore (US$3.1 million) surpassing both Pat Cummins who was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹20.50 crore (US$2.6 million) (US$2.4 million) in the same auction and Sam Curran who was bought at ₹18.50 crore by Punjab Kings in 2023 auction.[33]
- Prominent players like Steve Smith, Michael Bracewell, Josh Hazlewood and Josh Inglis went unsold.
Team changes
Support staff changes
- Gautam Gambhir was appointed as the Mentor of Kolkata Knight Riders.[34]
- Justin Langer replaced Andy Flower as the Head Coach of Lucknow Super Giants.[35]
- Sanjay Bangar was appointed by Punjab Kings as the Head of Cricket Development.[36]
- Andy Flower replaced Sanjay Bangar as the Head Coach of Royal Challengers Bengaluru.[37]
- Daniel Vettori replaced Brian Lara as Head Coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad.[38]
Captaincy changes
- Shubman Gill was named as the captain of Gujarat Titans after their previous captain Hardik Pandya was traded to Mumbai Indians.[39]
- Shreyas Iyer returned as the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders after missing out last year due to a back injury, replacing Nitish Rana who will serve as the vice-captain.[40]
- Rohit Sharma was replaced by Hardik Pandya as the captain of Mumbai Indians.[41]
- Rishabh Pant return to captaincy has been confirmed by the franchise CEO a few days before the season went underway, as Pant was ruled out last year with serious injuries sustained in a car crash, replacing David Warner who stood in as the captain of Delhi Capitals for the 2023 season.[42]
- Pat Cummins replaced Aiden Markram as the captain of Sunrisers Hyderabad.[43]
- MS Dhoni has stepped down as the captain of Chennai Super Kings and handed over the captaincy baton to Ruturaj Gaikwad a day before the season went underway. [44]
Venues
The league stage will be played at 12 stadiums in India. Delhi Capitals will play their first two home games at ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, due to the Arun Jaitley Stadium being unavailable immediately after hosting the 2024 Women's Premier League. Punjab Kings will play their home matches at IS Bindra Stadium and Mullanpur Cricket Stadium. The opening match will be played at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.
 India
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| Ahmedabad | Bengaluru | Chennai | Delhi | Hyderabad |
| Gujarat Titans | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | Chennai Super Kings | Delhi Capitals | Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| Narendra Modi Stadium | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | M. A. Chidambaram Stadium | Arun Jaitley Stadium | Rajiv Gandhi Stadium |
| Capacity: 132,000 | Capacity: 35,000 | Capacity: 39,000 | Capacity: 35,200 | Capacity: 55,000 |
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| Jaipur | Kolkata | |||
| Rajasthan Royals | Kolkata Knight Riders | |||
| Sawai Mansingh Stadium | Eden Gardens | |||
| Capacity: 25,000 | Capacity: 65,500 | |||
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| Lucknow | Mohali | Mullanpur | Mumbai | Vishakhapatnam |
| Lucknow Super Giants | Punjab Kings | Punjab Kings | Mumbai Indians | Delhi Capitals |
| Ekana Cricket Stadium | Inderjit Singh Bindra Stadium | Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium | Wankhede Stadium | ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium [a] |
| Capacity: 50,000 | Capacity: 26,000 | Capacity: 38,000[45] | Capacity: 33,108 | Capacity: 27,500 |
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Points table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chennai Super Kings | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.779 | Advance to Qualifier 1 |
| 2 | Punjab Kings | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.455 | |
| 3 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.200 | Advance to Eliminator |
| 4 | Gujarat Titans | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |
| 5 | Lucknow Super Giants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |
| 6 | Mumbai Indians | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |
| 7 | Rajasthan Royals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |
| 8 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | −0.200 | |
| 9 | Delhi Capitals | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | −0.455 | |
| 10 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | −0.779 |
The four top-ranked teams will qualify for the Playoffs.
Match summary
| Home team won |
- Note: Results listed are according to the home (horizontal) and visitor (vertical) teams.
- Note: Click on a result to see a summary of the match.
| Win | Loss | No result |
- Note: The total points at the end of each group match are listed.
- Note: Click on the points (group matches) or W/L (playoffs) to see the match summary.
League stage
The schedule for the first 17 days and 21 matches of this season was published by the Board of Control for Cricket in India on 22 February 2024.[46]
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
173/6 (20 overs) |
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Chennai Super Kings (H)
176/4 (18.4 overs) |
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the toss and elected to bat.
- Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bengaluru) scored his 12000th run in T20s.[47]
- Mustafizur Rahman (Chennai Super Kings) took his 50th wicket in IPL.[48]
Delhi Capitals
174/9 (20 overs) |
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Punjab Kings (H)
177/6 (19.2 overs) |
- Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to field.
- This was the first game played at the venue.[49]
(H) Kolkata Knight Riders
208/7 (20 overs) |
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Sunrisers Hyderabad
204/7 (20 overs) |
- Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to field.
- Heinrich Klassen (Sunrisers Hyderabad) scored his 4000th run in T20s.
Notes
- ^ ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium will host the first two home matches of the Delhi Capitals franchise as the Arun Jaitley Stadium will not be ready for IPL immediately after hosting the 2024 WPL.
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