IPL 2021: Venues, teams, timings, full schedule; all you need to know

During this season of IPL 2021 a total of 56 matches will be played with 11 double-headers across the months of April and May 2021.

The Indian Premier League (IPL 2021) is set to kickstart from April 9 with defending champions Mumbai Indians taking on Royal Challengers Bangalore at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. 

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A total of 56 matches will be played with 11 double-headers across the months of April and May. The IPL 2021 final will be played at the Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium Ahmedabad on May 30th.

The eight teams will play across six venues - Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, and Kolkata -- with each side playing in four venues out of the decided ones. There will be no home advantage as none of the teams will be playing in their home stadiums.

Amid concerns related to Covid-19 pandemic, spectators will not be allowed in the first half of the tournament. The IPL Governing Council has said in a statement that a call on allowing spectators inside stadiums will be taken at a later stage of the tournament.

The IPL has also issued Standard operating Procedures (SoP) under which the cricketers who played the India-England limited-overs series were eligible for a bubble-to-bubble transfer instead of undergoing quarantine, while there is no mandatory vaccination for any of the players or staff.

The IPL 2021 auction took place on February 18. The full IPL 2021 schedule was announced on March 7. 

Here's all you need to know about IPL 2021

Which teams are participating in IPL 2021?

The following eight franchises are part of the IPL 2021 — Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Delhi Capitals (DC), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Punjab Kings (PBKS), Mumbai Indians (MI), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH).

Venues for IPL 2021

The IPL 2021 matches will be held at the following venues: 

Mumbai: Wankhede Stadium

Chennai: MA Chidambaram Stadium

Bengaluru: M Chinnaswamy Stadium

Kolkata: Eden Gardens

New Delhi: Arun Jaitley Stadium

Ahmedabad: Narendra Modi Stadium

What are the match timings for IPL 2021?

The night matches begin at 7.30 pm IST, while the day matches will have an afternoon start at 3.30 pm IST. There will be a total of 11 double-headers.

Where can I watch, live stream IPL 2021?

The IPL T20 will be telecast on the Star Sports network. The matches can also be watched on online platform Disney+ Hostar. 

Who are the captains of the participating IPL teams?

List of captains of eight IPL teams.

CSK: MS Dhoni

DC: Rishabh Pant

KKR: Eoin Morgan

PBKS: KL Rahul

MI: Rohit Sharma

RCB: Virat Kohli

RR: Sanju Samson

SRH: David Warner

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

Here's the complete squad of IPL teams:

Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (C and WK), Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, N Jagadeesan, Faf Du Plessis, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sam Curran, Ravi Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Mitchell Santner, Josh Hazlewood, Shardul Thakur, Karn Sharma, KM Asif, Imran Tahir, R. Sai Kishore, Deepak Chahar, Lungi Ngidi, Moeen Ali, Krishnappa Gowtham, Harisankar Reddy, Bhagvath Varma and Cheteshwar Pujara

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (Captain), AB de Villiers, Yuzvendra Chahal, Devdutt Padikkal, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa, Josh Philippe, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pavan Deshpande, Kyle Jamieson, Glenn Maxwell, Dan Christian, Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Suyash Prabhudesai, KS Bharat

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Quinton de Kock (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan (WK), Chris Lynn, Anmolpreet Singh, Saurabh Tiwary, Aditya Tare, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan, Adam Milne, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, James Neesham, Yudhvir Charak, Marco Jansen, Arjun Tendulkar.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Tim Seifert (wk), Rahul Tripathi, Rinku Singh, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Eoin Morgan (c), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun CV, Kuldeep Yadav, Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna, Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Vaibhav Arora, Karun Nair, Harbhajan Singh, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer, Pawan Negi.

Delhi Capitals: Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (Captain, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, R Ashwin, Lalit Yadav, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Pravin Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Woakes, Daniel Sams, Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripal Patel, Vishnu Vinod, Lukman Meriwala, M Siddharth, Tom Curran, Sam Billings

Punjab Kings: KL Rahul (c&wk), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Mandeep Singh, Prabsimran Singh, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Murugan Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Harpreet Brar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ishan Porel, Darshan Nalkande, Chris Jordan, Dawid Malan, Jhye Richardson, Shahrukh Khan, Riley Meredith, Moises Henriques, Jalaj Saxena, Utkarsh Singh, Fabian Allen , Saurabh Kumar.

Sunrisers Hyderabad:  David Warner (c), Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Manish Pandey, Sreevats Goswami (wk), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Priyam Garg, Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Virat Singh, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T. Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Basil Thampi, Jagadeesha Suchith, Kedar Jadhav, Mujeeb-ur-Rahman.

Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (c), Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomor, Kartik Tyagi, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, David Miller, Manan Vohra, Chris Morris, Mustafizur Rahman, Shivam Dube, KC Cariappa, Chetan Sakariya, Liam Livingstone, Kuldip Yadav, Akash Singh.

IPL 2021 full schedule

April 9, Friday, 19.30 PM: Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Chennai

April 10th, Saturday, 19.30 PM: Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Capitals in Mumbai

April 11, Sunday, 19.30 PM: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai

April 12, Monday, 19.30 PM: Rajasthan Royals vs Punjab Kings in Mumbai

April 13, Tuesday, 19.30 PM: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians in Chennai

April 14, Wednesday, 19.30 PM: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Chennai

April 15, Thursday, 19.30 PM: Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals in Mumbai

April 16, Friday, 19.30 PM: Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings in Mumbai

April 17, Saturday, 19.30 PM: Mumbai Indians vs Sunrisers Hyderabad in Chennai

April 18, Sunday, 15.30 PM: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Mumbai

April 18, Sunday, 19.30 PM: Delhi Capitals vs Punjab Kings in Mumbai

April 19, Monday, 19.30 PM: Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals in Mumbai

April 20, Tuesday, 19.30 PM: Delhi Capitals vs Mumbai Indians in Chennai

April 21, Wednesday, 15.30 PM: Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad in Chennai

April 21, Wednesday, 19.30 PM: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings in Mumbai

April 22, Thursday, 19.30 PM: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals in Mumbai

April 23, Friday, 19.30 PM: Punjab Kings vs Mumbai Indians in Chennai

April 24, Saturday, 19.30 PM: Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Mumbai

April 25, Sunday, 15.30 PM: Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Mumbai

April 25, Sunday, 19.30 PM: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Delhi Capitals in Mumbai

April 26, Monday, 19.30 PM: Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Ahmedabad

April 27, Tuesday, 19.30 PM: Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Ahmedabad

April 28, Wednesday, 19.30 PM Chennai Super Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad in Delhi

April 29, Thursday, 15.30 PM: Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals in Delhi

April 29, Thursday, 19.30 PM: Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Ahmedabad

April 30, Friday, 19.30 PM: Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Ahmedabad

May 1, Saturday, 19.30 PM: Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings in Delhi

May 2, Sunday, 15.30 PM: Rajasthan Royals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad in Delhi

May 2, Sunday, 19.30 PM: Punjab Kings vs Delhi Capitals in Ahmedabad

May 3, Monday, 19.30 PM: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Ahmedabad

May 4, Tuesday, 19.30 PM: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Mumbai Indians in Delhi

May 5, Wednesday, 19.30 PM: Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings in Delhi

May 6, Thursday, 19.30 PM: Royal Challengers vs Bangalore Punjab Kings in Ahmedabad

May 7, Friday, 19.30 PM: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Chennai Super Kings in Delhi

May 8, Saturday, 15.30 PM: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals in Ahmedabad

May 8, Saturday, 19.30 PM: Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians in Delhi

May 9, Sunday, 15.30 PM: Chennai Super Kings vs Punjab Kings in Bangalore

May 9, Sunday, 19.30 PM: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad in Kolkata

May 10, Monday, 19.30 PM: Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Bangalore

May 11, Tuesday, 19.30 PM: Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals in Kolkata

May 12, Wednesday, 19.30 PM: Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Bangalore

May 13, Thursday, 15.30 PM: Mumbai Indians vs Punjab Kings in Bangalore

May 13, Thursday, 19.30 PM: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals in Kolkata

May 14, Friday, 19.30 PM: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals in Kolkata

May 15, Saturday, 19.30 PM Kolkata Knight Riders vs Punjab Kings in Bangalore

May 16, Sunday, 15.30 PM: Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Kolkata

May 16, Sunday, 19.30 PM: Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians in Bangalore

May 17, Monday, 19.30 PM: Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad in Kolkata

May 18, Tuesday, 7:30 PM: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals in Bangalore

May 19, Wednesday, 19.30 PM: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings in Bangalore

May 20, Thursday, 19.30 PM: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians in Kolkata

May 21, Friday, 15.30 PM: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad in Bangalore

May 21, Friday, 19.30 PM: Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings in Kolkata

May 22, Saturday, 19.30 PM: Punjab Kings vs Rajasthan Royals in Bangalore

May 23, Sunday, 15.30 PM: Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals in Kolkata

May 23, Sunday, 19.30 PM: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings in Kolkata

May 25, Tuesday, 19.30 PM: Qualifier 1 in Ahmedabad

May 26, Wednesday, 19.30 PM: Eliminator in Ahmedabad

May 18, Friday, 19.30 PM Qualifier 2 in Ahmedabad

May 30, 19.30 PM: Final in Ahmedabad