IPL 2022 Dates, Schedule, Players, Teams, Matches, Groups, Formats, Captains, Venues All details

IPL 2022: The fifteenth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is going to be bigger than ever. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has left no stone unturned to make the elite T20 tournament a massive hit. Ahead of the IPL 2022, the mega auction was organised in which several previous records were shattered by the players as they received bulky bids. IPL 2022 Dates, Schedule, Players, Teams, Matches, Groups, Formats, Captains, Venues All details

With the IPL just around the corner, all the jigsaw pieces of the puzzle have finally begun to make sense. Recently the BCCI announced the formations of two groups and the format in which the IPL 2022 will be played. A day ago, the Indian cricket board broke its silence and revealed the dates for the cash-rich event.

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In this article, we will take you through everything you need to know about the Tata IPL 2022 Dates – Schedule, Players, Teams, Matches, Groups, Formats, Captains, Venues and a lot of other details.

IPL 2022 Dates – Start and End:

The Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman, Brijesh Patel on 24th February revealed that the upcoming edition of the IPL will start on 26th March (Saturday) while the final will be held on 29th May (Sunday).

IPL 2022 Start Date: 26th March (Saturday)

IPL 2022 End Date: 29th May (Sunday)

IPL 2022 Teams:

A total of 10 teams will compete in the upcoming IPL 2022. Lucknow SuperGiants and Gujarat Titans were the two new teams that got added, last year. 

• Chennai Super Kings (CSK),
• Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), 
• Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB),
• Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), 
• Lucknow SuperGiants (LSG),
• Mumbai Indians (MI), 
• Delhi Capitals (DC), 
• Punjab Kings (PBKS),
• Rajasthan Royals (RR),
• Gujarat Titans (GT).

IPL 2022 Matches Details:

With the addition of the two new IPL teams, the total number of matches has been increased to 74. Each team will play 14 matches in the league stages. This time, there will be no home or away games, as the entire tournament is being hosted in Maharashtra.

IPL 2022 Venues and Stadiums:

It has been confirmed that the entire IPL 2022 will be held in Maharashtra. The BCCI has decided to use the Wankhede Stadium, DY Patil Stadium, Brabourne Stadium and MCA International Stadium Pune to host the league stage of the IPL 2022.

Wankhede Stadium and DY Patil Stadium will host 20 games apiece while Brabourne Stadium and MCA International Stadium will stage 15 matches each.

The four playoff matches are likely to be scheduled in the biggest cricket ground, Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. However, the BCCI hasn’t confirmed any details on that front.

IPL 2022 Groups:

In the recent announcement, the BCCI divided all the ten IPL teams into two groups of five teams each. Group A and Group B have been put in place to divide ten teams.

The likes of Mumbai Indians, Lucknow SuperGiants, Delhi Capitals, Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders are placed in the first group while Chennai Super Kings, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Punjab Kings and Gujarat Titans form Group B.

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IPL 2022 Format and Matches Explained:

As per the new format, each team will play twice with the teams of its group and twice with the team in the same row. While once with the other four teams left in another group.

Let’s understand this with the example of MI. Mumbai will play two matches each with KKR, RR, DC and LSG. Also, MI will play two matches with CSK, which is in the same row as Mumbai. This is how 10 matches will be completed of a team. 

Mumbai will then play its next four matches with the remaining teams of Group B i.e., RCB, SRH, PBKS and GT. In this way, Mumbai will complete its 14 league stage games.

IPL 2022 All Teams and their Captains:

A couple of teams have announced their new captain for the upcoming fifteenth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) while a few teams have opted to go with the man who has led the team in the past.

The likes of Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, Delhi Capitals, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rajasthan Royals have gone with their tested captain while the other five teams have named a new captain for the IPL 2022.

IPL 2022 Complete Squad and Players List of all ten IPL teams:

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Squad: MS Dhoni (c & wk), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Deepak Chahar, Ambati Rayudu, Moeen Ali, Dwaine Pretorius, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, Dwayne Bravo, Robin Uthappa, Adam Milne, KM Asif, Chris Jordan, Tushar Deshpande, N Jagadeesan, Hari Nishaanth, Bhagath Varma, Subhranshu Senapati, Mukesh Choudhary, Simarjeet Singh, Prashant Solanki, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Devon Conway, Maheesh Theekshana, Mitchell Santner.

Delhi Capitals (DC) Squad: Rishabh Pant (c & wk), Prithvi Shaw, Mitchell Marsh, Shardul Thakur, Ashwin Hebbar, Sarfaraz Khan, KS Bharat, Mandeep Singh, Tim Seifert,  Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ripal Patel,  Yash Dhull, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya,  David Warner, Khaleel Ahmed, Vicky Ostwal, Lungi Ngidi, Praveen Dubey, Rovman Powell, Lalit Yadav.

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Squad: Shreyas Iyer ©, Nitish Rana, Sheldon Jackson,  Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, B Indrajith, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy, Sam Billings, Ramesh Kumar, Rasikh Salam,  Venkatesh Iyer, Abhijeet Tomar, Pratham Singh, Aman Khan, Sunil Narine, Ashok Sharma, Tim Southee, Alex Hales, Mohammad Nabi, Umesh Yadav, Ajinkya Rahane,  Chamika Karunaratne.

Mumbai Indians (MI) Squad: Rohit Sharma ©, Suryakumar Yadav,  Ishan Kishan, Jofra Archer, Dewald Brevis, Mayank Markande, Kieron Pollard, Jasprit Bumrah, M Ashwin, Tymal Mills,   Basil Thampi,  Tilak Varma, Jaydev Unadkat, Sanjay Yadav, Ramandeep Singh, Hrithik Shokeen, Rahul Buddhi, Aryan Juyal, Fabian Allen, Daniel Sams, Anmolpreet Singh, Arshad Khan, Tim David, Arjun Tendulkar, Riley Meredith.

Punjab Kings (PBKS) Squad: Mayank Agarwal, Arshdeep Singh, Jonny Bairstow, Liam Livingstone, Vaibhav Arora, Jitesh Sharma, Prabhsimran Singh, Odean Smith, Shikhar Dhawan,  Nathan Ellis, Shahrukh Khan, Harpreet Brar, Writtick Chatterjee, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Ishan Porel, Sandeep Sharma, Atharva Taide, Bhanuka Rajapaksa,  Ansh Patel, Raj Angad Bawa, Benny Howell, Rishi Dhawan, Baltej Singh, Prerak Mankad.

Rajasthan Royals (RR) Squad: Sanju Samson (c & wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, R Ashwin, Shubham Garhwal, Tejas Baroka, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Dhruv Jurel, Devdutt Padikkal, Prasidh Krishna, KC Cariappa, Navdeep Saini, Anunay Singh, Kuldeep Sen, Kuldip Yadav, Daryl Mitchell, Rassie van der Dussen, James Neesham, Karun Nair, Obed McCoy.

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Squad: Faf du Plessis, Mohammed Siraj, Glenn Maxwell, Anuj Rawat, David Willey, Dinesh Karthik, Shahbaz Ahmed, Virat Kohli, Aneeshwar Gautam, Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Luvnith Sisodia, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Prabhudesai, Jason Behrendorff, Karn Sharma, Sherfane Rutherford, Siddarth Kaul, Akash Deep, Chama Milind, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Squad: Kane Williamson, © Rahul Tripathi, Nicholas Pooran, Vishnu Vinod, Aiden Markram, Glenn Phillips, Priyam Garg, Sean AbbottAbdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Saurabh Dubey, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar,  J Suchith, J Suchith, Shreyas Gopal, Kartik Tyagi, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, Shashank Singh, R Samarth, Romario Shepherd, Fazalhaq Farooqi.

Lucknow SuperGiants (LSG) Squad: KL Rahul ©, Quinton de Kock,  Shahbaz Nadeem, Karan Sharma, K Gowtham, Manish Pandey,  K Gowtham, Deepak Hooda, Mohsin Khan, Ankit Rajpoot, Marcus Stoinis, Krunal Pandya, Jason Holder, Ravi Bishnoi, Ayush Badoni, Avesh Khan, Mark Wood, Kyle Mayers, Dushmantha Chameera, Manan Vohra, Mayank Yadav, Evin Lewis.

Gujarat Titans (GT) Squad: Hardik Pandya, © Shubman Gill, Jason Roy, Jayant Yadav, Rashid Khan, Wriddhiman Saha, Lockie Ferguson, Pradeep Sangwan, Abhinav Manohar,  Matthew Wade, Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Noor Ahmad, Dominic Drakes, Mohammed Shami, R Sai Kishore, Alzarri Joseph, David Miller, Gurkeerat Singh, Yash Dayal,  B Sai Sudharshan.

IPL 2022 Schedule:

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