IPL 2024 to begin from March 22. Details on squads, schedule, injured players here

IPL 2024 news: The much-anticipated Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 is set to commence this week. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has released the schedule for the first two weeks of the tournament.

A total of 21 matches will take place across 10 cities during this period due to the Lok Sabha elections 2024. Each team will participate in at least three and at most five matches. The schedule for the remaining matches will be announced by the BCCI.

The matches will be played in the afternoon and at night as per Indian Standard Time. Afternoon matches will start at 3.30 pm IST (6 am EDT) and night matches will commence at 7.30 pm IST (10 am EDT).

IPL Governing Council chairman Arun Dhumal expressed confidence in hosting the remaining part of the tournament in India later due to the upcoming parliamentary polls.

IPL 2024 will start on Friday, March 22 with the first match between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). There are ten teams participating in IPL 2024. 

IPL 2024 schedule 

Match	Date	Venue
CSK vs RCB	March 22	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
PBKS vs DC	March 23	Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Punjab
KKR vs SRH	March 23	Eden Gardens, Kolkata
RR vs LSG	March 24	Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium, Jaipur
GT vs MI	March 24	Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
RCB vs PBKS	March 25	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
CSK vs GT	March 26	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
SRH vs MI	March 27	Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad
RR vs DC	March 28	Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium, Jaipur
RCB vs KKR	March 29	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
LSG vs PBKS	March 30	Ekana Sports City, Lucknow
GT vs SRH	March 31	Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
DC vs CSK	March 31	ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Vishakhapatnam
MI vs RR	April 1	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
RCB vs LSG	April 2	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
DC vs KKR	April 3	ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Vishakhapatnam
GT vs PBKS	April 4	Narendra Modi Stadium, Mumbai
SRH vs CSK	April 5	Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad
RR vs RCB	April 6	Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium, Jaipur
MI vs DC	April 7	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
LSG vs GT	April 7	Ekana Sports City, Lucknow

Updated IPL 2024 squads

Chennai Super Kings (CSK): MS Dhoni (Captain), Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Aravelly Avinash, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Daryl Mitchell, Rachin Ravindra, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Choudhary, Mustafizur Rahman, Simarjeet Singh, Shaik Rasheed, Sameer Rizwi, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ajay Mandal, Nishant Sandhu

Mumbai Indians (MI): Hardik Pandya (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Jasprit Bumrah, Tilak Varma, Arjun Tendulkar, Nuwan Thushara, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Nehal Wadhera, Gerald Coetzee, Dewald Bravis, Piyush Chawla, Shreyas Gopal, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shams Mulani, Romario Shepherd, Luke Wood

Delhi Capitals (DC): Rishabh Pant (Captain), David Warner, Ricky Bhui, Yash Dhull, Kuldeep Yadav, Prithvi Shaw, Axar Patel, Jake Fraser- McGurk, Shai Hope, Kumar Kushagra, Tristan Stubbs, Lalit Yadav, Mitchell Marsh, Sumit Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Praveen Dubey, Mukesh Kumar, Anrich Nortje, Vicky Ostwal, Rasikh Salam, Jhye Richardson, Ishant Sharma

Gujarat Titans (GT): Shubman Gill (Captain), Kane Williamson, David Miller, Matthew Wade, Josh Little, Wriddhiman Saha, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Rahul Tewatia, M Shahrukh Khan, Mohit Sharma, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Sai Sudharsan, Vijay Shankar, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson, Kartik Tyagi, Darshan Nalkande

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR): Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Mitchell Starc, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Phil Salt, Srikar Bharat, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Nitish Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Sherfane Rutherford, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Vaibhav Arora, Dushmantha Chameera, Harshit Rana, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, Suyash Sharma, Angkrish Raghuvanshi

Punjab Kings (PBKS): Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Sam Curran, Jonny Bairstow, Liam Livingstone, Chris Woakes, Arshdeep Singh, Rahul Chahar, Harshal Patel, Harpreet Brar, Harpreet Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Rilee Rossouw, Kagiso Rabada, Tanay Thyagarajan, Nathan Ellis, Jitesh Sharma, Rishi Dhawan, Shashank Singh, Shivam Singh, Sikandar Raza, Atharva Taide, Vidwath Kaverappa

Rajasthan Royals (RR): Sanju Samson (Captain), R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Avesh Khan, Navdeep Saini, Trent Boult, Jos Buttler,  Adam Zampa, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Shubham Dubey, Shimron Hetmeyer, Riyan Parag, Rovman Powell, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Singh Rathore, Sandeep Sharma, Kuldeep Sen, Abid Mushtaq, Nandre Burger

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB): Faf du Plessis (Captain), Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik, Mohammed Siraj, Glenn Maxwell, Tom Curran, Cameron Green, Lockie Ferguson, Will Jacks, Reece Topley, Anuj Rawat, Akash Deep, Saurav Chauhan, Rajat Patidar, Manoj Bhandage, Yash Dayal, Rajan Kumar, Himanshu Sharma, Karn Sharma, Swapnil Singh, Mahipal Lomror, Suyash Prabhudessai, Mayank Dagar, Alzarri Joseph

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG): KL Rahul (Captain), Krunal Pandya, Quinton de Kock, Marcus Stoinis, David Willey, Mayank Yadav, Shivam Mavi, Manimaran Siddharth, Ravi Bishnoi, Ayush Badoni, Krishnappa Gowtham, Amit Mishra, Yash Thakur, Yudhvir Singh, Mohsin Khan, Naveen-ul-Haq, Devdutt Padikkal, Nicholas Pooran, Ashton Turner, Deepak Hooda, Arshin Kulkarni, Prerak Mankad, Kyle Mayers, Arshad Khan, Shamar Joseph

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH): Pat Cummins (Captain), Travis Head, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, Glenn Phillips, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Agarwal, Washington Sundar, Umran Malik, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan, Mayank Markande, Akash Singh, Abdul Samad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Anmolpreet Singh, Rahul Tripathi, Abhishek Sharma, Wanindu Hasaranga, Marco Jansen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Sanvir Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, J Subramanyan

Players dropped in IPL 2024

Some players have withdrawn from the tournament due to injuries. CSK-- Devon Conway, Matheesha Pathirana; MI-- Dilshan Madushanka, Jason Behrendorff; DC-- Lungi Ngidi, Harry Brook; GT-- Mohammed Shami, Robin Minz; KKR-- Jason Roy, Gus Atkinson; LSG-- Mark Wood; and RR-- Prasidh Krishna