IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: In just a little while, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will unveil the much-awaited schedule of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. The BCCI will release the list of first 15 games of the IPL 2024 today. Set for its 17th season, the Indian Premier League promises to be bigger and better than ever. There is a possibility that not all fixtures might be revealed today, but realisation strikes that we may be just a month away from Indian cricket’s biggest T20 carnival. After all, it feels like just last month that Ravindra Jadeja struck a boundary off the last ball to take Chennai Super Kings to their fifth IPL title, but the fact remains that it’s been 8 long months to that epic night in Ahmedabad. Guess that’s what the IPL does – leave an ever-lasting impact!
The IPL 2024’s biggest roadblock was the fact that it is expected to clash with the general elections. Twice has it happened previously, and it led to scattered decisions. The 2009 edition was moved entirely to South Africa, whereas in 2014, the IPL was played in two halves – the first in the UAE and the other back in India. In 2019, the two events did not collide, and hence the IPL, starting March 23, was played entirely in India. This year too, while there were speculations, IPL chairman Arun Dhumal clarified once and for all that the IPL will not be moved abroad, but the full picture will only be painted once there is more clarity.
Back to the cricket. This year’s IPL has so much to look forward to. Mumbai Indians have a new captain in Hardik Pandya and Gujarat Titans has Shubman Gill. And of course, the big swansong of MS Dhoni. The Chennai Super Kings captain said last year that winning the IPL in 2023 would have been the perfect time for him to retire but he plans on coming back for one last run ‘next year’. Cut to 2024, here we are. In what is Dhoni’s final season in all probability, MSD is rocking shades of when he burst on to the scene. He has grown his hair like it was in the mid-2000s is likely to play with BAS as his bat sticker. Only Dhoni is capable of such meaningful and priceless gestures.
Moving on to CSK’s biggest rivals, the Mumbai Indians have already created headlines even before the start of the tournament. In fact, they created ripples on December 15, 2023 itself when they announced Hardik the new captain of the franchise, replacing Rohit Sharma. The decision created a social media storm with truckloads of MI and other fans spamming their franchise’s timelines and being vocal with their displeasure. But it is what it is. The team felt that now is the right time for MI, who have gone without a title for three seasons, to make the transition, and once Hardik came on board, they just knew who it was going to be. In fact, according to reports, Hardik’s stipulation for his return to MI was allegedly a guarantee of captaincy.
Outside of MI and CSK, the biggest factor heading into the IPL 2024 are the auction, that took place on December 19, where Pat Cummins and Mitchell Marsh struck gold. The Australian pace-bowling duo smashed records, with Cummins becoming the first player to surpass the 20-crore margin, eventually heading to Sunrisers Hyderabad. However, even before the news if Cummins’ record-breaking deal could reach to all parts of the world, it was bettered by Starc, who became the costliest player of all time, with KKR splurging a gobsmacking ₹24.75 crore on him. Meanwhile, Harshal Patel emerged as the most expensive India, with Punjab Kings shelling out ₹11.75 crore.
So yeah, the stage is set. Will Cummins, Starc be able to live up to the expectations? Who will be this year’s breakout star? Which two teams will play the IPL 2024 opener. The first step towards answering all these questions will be taken today at 5PM.
Below are a few important pointers related to the IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement:
– Chennai Super Kings will play the IPL 2024 opener at home.
– The schedule will be announced today at 5PM.
– The entire schedule is not likely to be unveiled.
– The IPL 2024 is expected to begin on March 22.
– The entire IPL 2024 will take place in India.
Follow all the updates here:
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 05:06 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: IPL 2024 schedule is ready!
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: The schedule for IPL 2024 is ready! IPL’s first 21 matches and action of 15 days will be revealed shortly. The mega announcement will be made in a few minutes. MS Dhoni’s CSK will play the IPL 2024 opener at the Chepauk. Dhoni and Co. are the defending champions of this season’s IPL.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:56 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: MS Dhoni named as captain of IPL’s all-time greatest team
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Legendary cricketer MS Dhoni was selected as the leader of IPL’s all-time greatest XI prior to the new season. Dhoni was picked as the leader of the GOAT XI by an elite selection panel consisting of former cricketers Wasim Akram, Matthew Hayden, Tom Moody and Dale Steyn. At least 70 journalists were also part of the selection process.
All-time great IPL squad:
MS Dhoni (C), Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle, David Warner, Suresh Raina, AB de Villiers, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Kieron Pollard, Rashid Khan, Sunil Narine, Yuzvendra Chahal, Lasith Malinga and Jasprit Bumrah.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:46 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: KKR icon Gautam Gambhir returns ‘home’ for new season
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir has joined Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) as the team’s mentor for IPL 2024. Gambhir guided KKR to two IPL crowns during his iconic T20 career. Gambhir, who won the 2007 and 2011 World Cups with India, became a Knight Rider in 2011. He remained at the franchise till 2017. With Gambhir at the helm, KKR lifted the famous trophy in 2012 and 2014. “Gautam has always been part of the family and this is our captain coming back home in a different avatar as a ‘Mentor’,” KKR co-owner Shah Rukh Khan had said.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:37 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: What Ricky Ponting said about Rishabh Pant
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting provided a positive update about Rishabh Pant in the lead-up to the new season. Speaking at an event in Melbourne, Ponting suggested that Pant might not be ready for wicketkeeping duties in the IPL next season. “Rishabh is very confident that he’s going to be right to play. In what capacity we’re not quite sure yet. You would have seen all the social media stuff, he’s up and about and running well. But in saying that we’re only six weeks away from the first game as well. So we’re not sure if we’ll get wicketkeeping out of him this year,” Ponting had said. “But I’ll guarantee if I asked him now he’ll say, ‘I’m playing every game, I’m keeping every game and I’m batting at No.4.’ That’s just what he’s like, but we’ll keep our fingers crossed,” Ponting added.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:30 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Will Rishabh Pant return in IPL 2024?
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Rishabh Pant’s comeback is on course for the 2024 season of the Indian Premier League. The Delhi Capitals (DC) superstar was recently seen smoking sixes in a practice game organised by his franchise in Karnataka. Pant met with a horrific car accident in December 2022. The DC star has been undergoing rehabilitation at the National Cricket Academy after the tragic car crash.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:23 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Hardik Pandya returns to Mumbai as captain
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: All-rounder Hardik Pandya joined forces with Rohit Sharma at Mumbai Indians (MI) for the 2024 season of the Indian Premier League. After Mumbai Indians completed a sensational all-cash deal for Pandya with Gujarat Titans (GT), the Indian all-rounder was named the captain of the Mumbai Paltan. Hardik will succeed Rohit Sharma at Mumbai Indians. Rohit will continue to play as a premier batter for Mumbai in IPL 2024. MI skipper Pandya has recovered from his ankle injury in the build-up to the new season.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:16 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Shamar Joseph will play for this franchise in IPL 2024
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: West Indies fast bowler Shamar Joseph made his Test debut in the Australia series. He has been roped in by Lucknow Super Giants as a replacement for England fast bowler Mark Wood. Joseph has joined the LSG camp for INR 3 crore after the auction.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:59 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: What IPL chairman Arun Singh Dhumal said about season opener
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: IPL chairman Arun Singh Dhumal confirmed that the 2024 edition of the IPL will kick off on March 22. The 17th season of the cash-rich league will get underway in Chennai aka the backyard of MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings (CSK). Dhoni and Co. are the defending champions this season. Kasi Viswanathan, who is the CEO of the Chennai Super Kings franchise, stated that IPL 2024 will also have an inaugural ceremony before the season opener.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:52 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: What’s cooking at KKR camp?
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Sri Lanka fast bowler Dushmantha Chameera has replaced England’s Gus Atkinson at the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) camp for IPL 2024. Did you know? Chameera was unsold at the auction. He has joined KKR for his base price of INR 50 lakh. Atkinson withdrew from the tournament to manage his international schedule.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:42 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: JUST IN | Change in venues for Delhi Capitals
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Delhi Capitals will not be playing their first two home fixtures of the IPL 2024 at the famous Arun Jaitely Cricket Stadium. As per the latest developments, the venue will not be ready to host the matches in time. Thus, the IPL 2024 games will be shifted to Pune and Cuttack respectively.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:29 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Setback for Gujarat Titans as Mohammed Shami ruled out of IPL 2024
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: According to news agency PTI, veteran pacer Mohammed Shami is ruled out of the entire edition of the IPL. Pacer Shami will miss the entire season owing to a left ankle injury. As per a senior BCCI source, Shami was in London in the last week of January to take special ankle injections and he was told that after three weeks, the GT star can start light running and take it from thereon. However, the injection hasn’t worked and now the only option left is surgery. He will shortly leave for the UK for surgery. IPL seems out of the question, the report added.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:21 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: CSK vs KKR for Sarfaraz
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Sarfaraz Khan’s impressive India debut has already carved the way for a lucrative IPL deal. According to a report in Anandabazar Patrika, Gautam Gambhir is pulling out all the stops to sign the 26-year-old but is receiving stiff competition from CSK, who are equally keen to get Sarfaraz on board. More clarity is awaited but rest assured that Sarfaraz has captivated the attention of the franchises just one match into his India career. Given his twin-fifty performance, it was evident that he was fully engaged in a T20 style of play.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:10 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: All eyes on the last week of IPL
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: The last week of the IPL 2024 becomes crucial because the T20 World Cup begins June 1. Ideally, the any edition of the IPL wraps up by May end, but just how long this season promise to last might play a part of India’s readiness for the World Cup. A few BCCI sources have revealed that as teams and players start to get eliminated, the one who are Caribbean-bound will be released early. But what if some of the big guys qualify for the Playoffs and then the final. What happens if Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav feature in the final. Is that enough time?
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:00 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Let’s refresh your memory
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Not too long ago, the platform for the IPL 2024 was laid following a riveting auction on December 19, where records were smashed. Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc broke banks as both breached the ₹20 crore mark. Cummins was the first to do as Sunrisers Hyderabad splurged ₹20.5 crore, but Starc not only joined him but surpassed his Australian captain to become the most expensive IPL buy of all time with KKR shelling out ₹24.50 crore on the left-arm quick. Expected to be the record but, Starc did exactly that… and why not? Both were instrumental in Australia’s World Cup win just a month ago and the franchises didn’t fail in noticing it. Among Indians, Harshal Patel was the costliest purchase, going to Punjab Kings for ₹11/75 crore. That’s not it. There’s more. Click here to relive that frenetic day.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:50 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Do we have a start date already?
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: The official announcement will take place in another 2.5 hours but we may have an official kick-off date. IPL chairman Arun Dhumal recently said that the board is targeting 22nd as the day the IPL 2024 starts. Then again, a lot of permutations and combinations are involved. Everything depends on when the Election Commission announces the polling dates. While this may be true, one thing that isn’t is the opening fixture. Reports were floating that CSK and GT might play the opener in a repeat of last year’s final, but the official fixtures once out – albeit partial – could indicate something else.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:40 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: So much to look forward to
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Each year, the IPL gets bigger and better. But this year, there are multiple reasons to make it mouth-watering. Firstly, we have a new captain of Mumbai Indians… and he goes by the name of Hardik Pandya. The decision to replace Rohit Sharma with Hardik as captain has already generated a lot of news, but that isn’t all. Shubman Gill will have his first shot at captaincy as he gears up to lead two-time finalists and one-time winner Gujarat Titans. And lastly, MS Dhoni. The CSK captain in all probability will play his final IPL season, which promises to attract more eyeballs than before.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:30 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: BREAKING NEWS just coming in!
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Mohammed Shami has been ruled out of IPL 2024, reports news agency PTI. The India pacer, who has been battling a knee injury since the end of the 2023 World Cup and missed the South Africa and England Test series as a result of it, will take no part in this year’s Indian Premier League. The BCCI source whom PTI has quoted, says the India pacer may require surgery, which means that he could be out for good. Huge blow for Gujarat Titans just hours before the announcement of the schedule. We wish Shami a speedy recovery and hope to see him back in action soon.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:20 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: What happened when IPL clashed with elections previously
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Twice has the IPL’s schedule and venues been impacted due to elections in its last 15-season history. In 2008 – just the second season – the tournament was moved entirely to South Africa, where the now-defunct Deccan Chargers won the title by beating Royal Challengers Bangalore in the final. Five years later, in 2014, the season was split into two halves as the first part was held in the UAE and the second back in India. 2019 saw no such episode as the IPL went about seamlessly. The IPL was forced to move out of India twice more due to Covid – 2020 and partly in 2021 – before it made a triumphant return to its home turf two years ago.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:10 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: What to expect
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: As uncertainty lingers over the announcement of the schedule, there is a possibility that not all fixtures may be released today. It is believed that today’s schedule announcement could be only for the first 15-20 games because the BCCI is still contemplating the arrangement needed to ensure that the IPL takes place smoothly and does not clash with the general elections in the country. Ever since two news teams were added to make the IPL a 10-team tournament, the number of league matches have gone up from 56 to 70 with an increase in the number of double headers. This year promises to follow the same structure but the only thing missing here are the complete dates which may or may not be out for the public consumption today.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:00 PM
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Hello and Welcome!
IPL 2024 Schedule Announcement Live Updates: Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! The big day is finally here. The day when the schedule for the IPL 2024 will be released. If there was any excitement lacking with one month to go for the biggest cricketing carnival in Indian T20 cricket, this reveal promises to make the levels peak. There’s always something about these fixture revelations, almost as if the IPL has come early. IPL chairman Arun Dhumal has already announced March 22 as the day they are targeting the start of the season, but an official stamp is yet to be put on it. Dhumal has already earmarked March 22 as the targeted start date for the season, yet an official confirmation is still pending. Nonetheless, all the mystery, all the suspense ends today. The countdown has begun. Are you ready?
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