The time is nearing for the biggest and the most decorated T20 league in the world to begin as the 12th edition of Indian Premier League rolls out from 23rd March. The tournament traditionally starts in the month of April but the organizers started it earlier this year, owing to the 2019 cricket world cup, which starts in the last week of May.
Delhi Capitals(former Delhi Daredevils) have taken the astrological boost and changed their name which may also change the luck and they might lift their maiden IPL trophy. Teams like Kings XI Punjab, Royal Challengers Bangalore will be eyeing their first IPL trophy, whereas heavyweights like Chennai Super Kings(3 times champion) and Mumbai Indians(3 times champion) will be eager to win the tournament and have the right of becoming the most successful team in tournament history.
Here is everything you need to know about IPL 2019
IPL 2019 Full schedule
Saturday, March 23:
Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at 8 pm IST in Chennai
Sunday, March 24:
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad at 4 pm IST in Kolkata
Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals at 8 pm IST in Delhi
Monday, March 25:
Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab at 8 pm IST in Jaipur
Tuesday, March 26:
Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings at 8 pm IST in Delhi
Wednesday, March 27:
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab at 8 pm IST in Kolkata
Thursday, March 28:
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians at 8 pm IST in Bengaluru
Friday, March 29:
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals at 8 pm IST in Hyderabad
Saturday, March 30:
Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians at 4 pm IST in Mohali
Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders at 8 pm IST in Delhi
Sunday, March 31:
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at 4 pm IST in Hyderabad
Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals at 8 pm IST in Chennai
Monday, April 1:
Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Capitals at 8 pm IST in Mohali
Tuesday, April 2:
Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at 8 pm IST in Jaipur
Wednesday, April 3:
Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings at 8 pm IST in Mumbai
Thursday, April 4:
Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad at 8 pm IST in Delhi
Friday, April 5:
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders at 8 pm IST in Bengaluru
Saturday, April 6:
Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab at 4 pm IST in Chennai
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Mumbai Indians at 8 pm IST in Hyderabad
Sunday, April 7:
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals at 4 pm IST in Bangalore
Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders at 8 pm IST in Jaipur
Monday, April 8:
Kings XI Punjab vs Sunrisers Hyderabad at 8 pm IST in Mohali
Tuesday, April 9:
Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders at 8 pm IST in Chennai
Wednesday, April 10:
Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab at 8 pm IST in Mumbai
Thursday, April 11:
Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings at 8 pm IST in Jaipur
Friday, April 12:
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals at 8 pm IST in Kolkata
Saturday, April 13:
Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals at 4 pm IST in Mumbai
Kings XI Punjab vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at 8 pm IST in Mohali
Sunday, April 14:
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings at 4 pm IST in Kolkata
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Delhi Capitals at 8 pm IST in Hyderabad
Monday, April 15:
Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at 8 pm IST in Mumbai
Tuesday, April 16:
Kings XI Punjab vs Rajasthan Royals at 8 pm IST in Mohali
Wednesday, April 17:
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Chennai Super Kings at 8 pm IST in Hyderabad
Thursday, April 18:
Delhi Capitals vs Mumbai Indians at 8 pm IST in Delhi
Friday, April 19:
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at 8 pm IST in Kolkata
Saturday, April 20:
Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians at 4 pm IST in Jaipur
Delhi Capitals vs Kings XI Punjab at 8 pm IST in Delhi
Sunday, April 21:
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders at 4 pm IST in Hyderabad
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings at 8 pm IST in Bangalore
Monday, April 22:
Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals at 8 pm IST in Jaipur
Tuesday, April 23:
Chennai Super Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad at 8 pm IST in Chennai
Wednesday, April 24:
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kings XI Punjab at 8 pm IST in Bangalore
Thursday, April 25:
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals at 8 pm IST in Kolkata
Friday, April 26:
Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians at 8 pm IST in Chennai
Saturday, April 27:
Rajasthan Royals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad at 8 pm IST in Jaipur
Sunday, April 28:
Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at 4 pm IST in Delhi
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians at 8 pm IST in Kolkata
Monday, April 29:
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kings XI Punjab at 8 pm IST in Hyderabad
Tuesday, April 30:
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals at 8 pm IST in Bangalore
Wednesday, May 1:
Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Capitals at 8 pm IST in Chennai
Thursday, May 2:
Mumbai Indians vs Sunrisers Hyderabad at 8 pm IST in Mumbai
Friday, May 3:
Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders at 8 pm IST in Mohali
Saturday, May 4:
Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals at 4 pm IST in Delhi
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad at 8 pm IST in Bangalore
Sunday, May 5:
Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings at 4 pm IST in Mohali
Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders at 8 pm IST in Mumbai
-The dates of playoffs are not yet confirmed
Sunday, May 12:
Final- TBD vs TBD
IPL 2019 participating teams
Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni(c), Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, Murali Vijay, Sam Billings, Ambati Rayudu, Dhruv Shorey, N Jagadeesan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shane Watson, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, David Willey, Kedar Jadhav, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Harbhajan Singh, Karn Sharma, Imran Tahir, Mitchell Santner, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Lungi Ngidi, Mohit Sharma, KM Asif, Monu Kumar.
Delhi Capitals: Shreyas Iyer(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Hanuma Vihari, Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Colin Munro, Ankush Bains, Colin Ingram, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Manjot Kalra, Chris Morris, Keemo Paul, Sherfane Rutherford, Jalaj Saxena, Amit Mishra, Rahul Tewatia, Sandeep Lamichhane, Trent Boult, Kagiso Rabada, Avesh Khan, Ishant Sharma, Nathu Singh, Bandaru Ayyappa.
Kings XI Punjab: Ravichandran Ashwin(c), Lokesh Rahul, Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair, David Miller, Mandeep Singh, Simran Singh, Nicholas Pooran, Sarfaraz Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Murugan Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Andrew Tye, Ankit Rajpoot, Hardus Viljoen, Arshdeep Singh, Moises Henriques, Varun Chakravarthy, Sam Curran, Darshan Nalkande, Agnivesh Ayachi, Harpreet Brar
Kolkata Knight Riders: Dinesh Karthik(c), Robin Uthappa, Chris Lynn, Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Nikhil Naik, Joe Denly, Shrikant Mundhe, Carlos Brathwaite, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna, Lockie Ferguson, Anrich Nortje, Harry Gurney, Yarra Prithviraj, KC Cariappa.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Yuvraj Singh, Anmolpreet Singh, Aditya Tare, Siddhesh Lad, Evin Lewis, Quinton de Kock, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Pankaj Jaiswal, Anukul Roy, Kieron Pollard, Ben Cutting, Mayank Markande, Rahul Chahar, Lasith Malinga, Jasprit Bumrah, Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff, Barinder Sran, Rasikh Salam, Jayant Yadav.
Rajasthan Royals: Ajinkya Rahane(c), Steven Smith, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson, Prashant Chopra, Manan Vohra, Aryaman Birla, Rahul Tripathi, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Stuart Binny, Shreyas Gopal, Krishnappa Gowtham, Shashank Singh, Liam Livingstone, Shubham Ranjane, Ashton Turner, Riyan Parag, Mahipal Lomror, Ish Sodhi, Jaydev Unadkat, Dhawal Kulkarni, Varun Aaron, Oshane Thomas, Sudhesan Midhun.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers, Parthiv Patel, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Heinrich Klaasen, Himmat Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Marcus Stoinis, Colin de Grandhomme, Moeen Ali, Pawan Negi, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Milind Kumar, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Prayas Barman, Akshdeep Nath, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya, Tim Southee, Mohammed Siraj, Nathan Coulter-Nile.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner, Kane Williamson(c), Manish Pandey, Deepak Hooda, Ricky Bhui, Shreevats Goswami, Jonny Bairstow, Wriddhiman Saha, Martin Guptill, Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Mohammad Nabi, Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Basil Thampi, Sandeep Sharma, Billy Stanlake, K Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan.
TV Channels guide
Hindi commentary– Star Sports 1 Hindi and Star Sports 1 Hindi
English commentary– Star Sports 1 English HD and Star Sports 1 English
Dugout commentary with deep analysis of the game– Star Sports Select 1 HD and Star Sports Select 1
IPL 2019 Live streaming
Website– www.hotstar.com
Mobile application– Hotstar and Jio TV
