Defending champions Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore kickstart the 10th edition of Indian Premier League on 5 April at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, which will also host the final on 21 May.
The landmark year will also feature eight teams and will have 60 matches played over a span of 47 days across 10 Indian cities. From the time Shane Warne's Rajasthan Royals defeated MS Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings in the inaugural edition in 2008, the cash-rich cricket league has come a long way despite the controversies that had been surrounding it and has gone on to become one of the most popular sporting leagues in the world.
Tournament: Indian Premier League 2017
Date: 5 April, Wednesday to 21 May, Sunday
Time: 6:30pm SGT (Afternoon matches), 10:30pm SGT (Evening matches)
Live Streaming: Hotstar, Cricketgateway.com
TV Channel: Singtel TV Ch 125 (Cricket Plus), Hub Sports Cricket will provide live TV coverage in Singapore.
Live scores can be followed on the league's official website.
Injury concerns ahead of tournament
However, the ongoing edition has suffered a setback even ahead of the start of the league as high-profile names, including Ravichandran Ashwin, Lokesh Rahul, Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy and Murali Vijay, are set to miss the entire tournament due to injuries. Also, India's skipper Virat Kohli along with in-form Ravindra Jadeja, Umesh Yadav and West Indies star Dwayne Bravo will miss the initial stages of the tournament.
Tournament format
The 10th edition will also feature eight teams playing a double-legged round robin format in the group stages. The top four teams at the end of the group stage will proceed to the play-offs, with the first-ranked and the second-ranked team playing the Qualifier 1. The Eliminator will be played between the third and fourth-ranked team and the Qualifier 2 to decide the second finalist will be played between winner of Eliminator and loser of Qualifier 1.
Global TV Schedule
India: Sony Max, Sony Six
US: ESPN, Willow TV
UK: Sky SPorts
Singapore: Singtel, StarHub
Malaysia: Astro SuperSport
South Africa: SuperSport
Caribbean: Flow TV, Sportsmax
Middle East: OSN Cricket
New Zealand: SKy Sport
Hong Kong: Now TV
Afghanistan: Lemar TV
Check out how the teams have shaped up for IPL 10.
Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS)
Squad: Steve Smith (c), MS Dhoni, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, Lockie Ferguson, Usman Khawaja, Ben Stokes, Adam Zampa, Dan Christian, Baba Aparajith, Manok Tiwary, Ashok Dinda, Jaskaran Singh, Saurabh Kumar, Mayank Agarwal, Ankush Bains, Ankit Sharma, Rajat Bhatia, Deepak Chahar, Rahul Chahar, Milind Tondon, Jaydev Unadkat
Gujarat Lions (GL)
Squad: Suresh Raina (c), Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Karthik, Dwayne Bravo, James Faulkner, Jason Roy, Aaron Finch, Brendon McCullum, Chirag Suri, Andrew Tye, Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Dwayne Smith, Akshdeep Nath, Shubham Agarwal, Basil Thampi, Manpreet Gony, Ishan kishan, Shadab Jakati, Shivil Kaushik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Pratham Singh, Pradeep Sangwan, Jaydev Shah, Shelley Shaurya, Nathu Singh, Tejas Baroka
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Squad: Gautam Gambhir (c), Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Shakib Al Hasan, Chris Lynn, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Trent Boult, Chris Woakes, Rishi Dhawan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rovman Powell, R Sanjay Yadav, Ishank Jaggi, Darren Bravo, Sayan Ghosh, Sheldon Jackson, Ankit Singh Rajput
Mumbai Indians (MI)
Squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Gopal, Lendl Simmons, Vinay Kumar, Parthiv Patel, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nitish Rana, Siddhesh Lad, J Suchith, Hardik Pandya, Jos Buttler, Tim Southee, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Johnson, K Gowtham, Karn Sharma, Saurabh Tiwary, A Gunarathna , K Khejroliya, Jithesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Deepak Punia.
Kings XI Punjab (KXIP)
Squad: Glenn Maxwell (c), Eoin Morgan, Darren Sammy, Hashim Amla, T Natarajan, Marcus Stoinis, Wriddhiman Saha, Matt Henry, Shaun Marsh, Varun Aaron, Martin Guptill, David Miller, Manan Vohra, Axar Patel, Gurkeerat Singh, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Rahul Tewatia, Nikhil Naik, Mohit Sharma, KC Cariappa, Armaan Jaffer, Pardeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, Rinku Singh
Delhi Daredevils (DD)
Squad: Zaheer Khan (c), Mohammed Shami, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jayant Yadav, Amit Mishra, Shreyas Iyer, Sam Billings, Sanju Samson, Chris Morris, Carlos Brathwaite, Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant, Angelo Mathews , Corey Anderson, Kagiso Rabada, Pat Cummins, Ankit Bawne, Aditya Tare, Murugan Ashwin, Navdeep Saini, Shashank Singh, CV Milind, Syed Ahmed, Pratyush Singh
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
Squad: David Warner (c), Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Pravin Tambe, Chris Jordan, Ben Laughlin, Mohammed Siraj, Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Moises Henriques, Naman Ojha, Ricky Bhui, Kane Williamson, Siddarth Kaul, Bipul Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Ben Cutting, Abhimanyu Mithun, Mustafizur Rahman, Barinder Sran, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Tanmay Agarwal, Ekalavya Dwivedi
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
Squad: Virat Kohli (c), Tymal Mills, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Iqbal Abdulla, Travis Head, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sarfaraz Khan, S Aravind, Kedar Jadhav, Sachin Baby, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi, Pawan Negi, Aniket Choudhary, Praveen Dubey, Billy Stanlake
Full Schedule
| S.No | Match | Date | Time | Venue |
| 1 | SRH v RCB | 5 April, Wednesday | 10:30pm SGT | Hyderabad |
| 2 | RPS v MI | 6 April, Thursday | 10:30pm SGT | Pune |
| 3 | GL v KKR | 7 April, Friday | 10:30pm SGT | Rajkot |
| 4 | KXIP v RPS | 8 April, Saturday | 6:30pm SGT | Indore |
| 5 | RCB v DD | 8 April, Saturday | 10:30pm SGT | Bengaluru |
| 6 | SRH v GL | 9 April, Sunday | 6:30pm SGT | Hyderabad |
| 7 | MI v KKR | 9 April, Sunday | 10:30pm SGT | Mumbai |
| 8 | KXIP v RCB | 10 April, Monday | 10:30pm SGT | Indore |
| 9 | RPS v DD | 11 April, Tuesday | 10:30pm SGT | Pune |
| 10 | MI v SRH | 12 April, Wednesday | 10:30pm SGT | Mumbai |
| 11 | KKR v KXIP | 13 April, Thursday | 10:30pm SGT | Kolkata |
| 12 | RCB v MI | 14 April, Friday | 6:30pm SGT | Bengaluru |
| 13 | GL v RPS | 14 April, Friday | 10:30pm SGT | Rajkot |
| 14 | KKR v SRH | 15 April, Saturday | 6:30pm SGT | Kolkata |
| 15 | DD v KXIP | 15 April, Saturday | 10:30pm SGT | Delhi |
| 16 | MI v GL | 16 April, Sunday | 6:30pm SGT | Mumbai |
| 17 | RCB v RPS | 16 April, Sunday | 10:30pm SGT | Bengaluru |
| 18 | DD v KKR | 17 April, Monday | 6:30pm SGT | Delhi |
| 19 | SRH v KXIP | 17 April, Monday | 10:30pm SGT | Hyderabad |
| 20 | GL v RCB | 18 April, Tuesday | 10:30pm SGT | Rajkot |
| 21 | SRH v DD | 19 April, Wednesday | 10:30pm SGT | Hyderabad |
| 22 | KXIP v MI | 20 April, Thursday | 10:30pm SGT | Indore |
| 23 | KKR v GL | 21 April, Friday | 6:30pm SGT | Kolkata |
| 24 | RPS v SRH | 22 April, Saturday | 6:30pm SGT | Pune |
| 25 | MI v DD | 22 April, Saturday | 10:30pm SGT | Mumbai |
| 26 | GL v KXIP | 23 April, Sunday | 6:30pm SGT | Rajkot |
| 27 | KKR v RCB | 23 April, Sunday | 10:30pm SGT | Kolkata |
| 28 | MI v RPS | 24 April, Monday | 10:30pm SGT | Mumbai |
| 29 | RCB v SRH | 25 April, Tuesday | 10:30pm SGT | Bengaluru |
| 30 | RPS v KKR | 26 April, Wednesday | 10:30pm SGT | Pune |
| 31 | RCB v GL | 27 April, Thursday | 10:30pm SGT | Bengaluru |
| 32 | KKR v DD | 28 April, Friday | 6:30pm SGT | Kolkata |
| 33 | KXIP v SRH | 28 April, Friday | 10:30pm SGT | Mohali |
| 34 | RPS v RCB | 29 April, Saturday | 6:30pm SGT | Pune |
| 35 | GL v MI | 29 April, Saturday | 10:30pm SGT | Rajkot |
| 36 | KXIP v DD | 30 April, Sunday | 6:30pm SGT | Mohali |
| 37 | SRH v KKR | 30 April, Sunday | 10:30pm SGT | Hyderabad |
| 38 | MI v RCB | 1 May, Monday | 6:30pm SGT | Mumbai |
| 39 | RPS v GL | 1 May, Monday | 10:30pm SGT | Pune |
| 40 | DD v SRH | 2 May, Tuesday | 10:30pm SGT | Delhi |
| 41 | KKR v RPS | 3 May, Wednesday | 10:30pm SGT | Kolkata |
| 42 | DD v GL | 4 May, Thursday | 10:30pm SGT | Delhi |
| 43 | RCB v KXIP | 5 May, Friday | 10:30pm SGT | Bengaluru |
| 44 | SRH v RPS | 6 May, Saturday | 6:30pm SGT | Hyderabad |
| 45 | DD v MI | 6 May, Saturday | 10:30pm SGT | Delhi |
| 46 | RCB v KKR | 7 May, Sunday | 6:30pm SGT | Bengaluru |
| 47 | KXIP v GL | 7 May, Sunday | 10:30pm SGT | Mohali |
| 48 | SRH v MI | 8 May, Monday | 10:30pm SGT | Hyderabad |
| 49 | KXIP v KKR | 9 May, Tuesday | 10:30pm SGT | Mohali |
| 50 | GL v DD | 10 May, Wednesday | 10:30pm SGT | Kanpur |
| 51 | MI v KXIP | 11 May, Thursday | 10:30pm SGT | Mumbai |
| 52 | DD v RPS | 12 May, Friday | 10:30pm SGT | Delhi |
| 53 | GL v SRH | 13 May, Saturday | 6:30pm SGT | Kanpur |
| 54 | KKR v MI | 13 May, Saturday | 10:30pm SGT | Kolkata |
| 55 | RPS v KXIP | 14 May, Sunday | 6:30pm SGT | Pune |
| 56 | DD v RCB | 14 May, Sunday | 10:30pm SGT | Delhi |
| Qualifier 1 (Q1) | 1st v 2nd | 16 May, Tuesday | 10:30pm SGT | Mumbai |
| Eliminator (E) | 3rd v 4th | 17 May, Wednesday | 10:30pm SGT | Bengaluru |
| Qualifier 2 (Q2) | Loser Q1 v Winner E | 19 May, Friday | 10:30pm SGT | Bengaluru |
| Final | Winner Q1 v Winner Q2 | 21 May, Sunday | 10:30pm SGT | Hyderabad |
