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March 22 will be the first match of IPL 2025 between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders.
The 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will begin on Saturday, March 22. The previous champion Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will have an opening and final match at the Home Ground Eden Gardens. In the first match, KKR will have Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).
According to the report of Cricbuzz, the entire schedule of IPL can be released in 1 or 2 days. Franchise teams have been told about important matches. Kolkata won the title by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the 2024 final. This time 2 playoff matches will be played in Hyderabad.
Hyderabad will also start from homeground The runner-up of the 17th season, Sunrisers Hyderabad will also start their campaign with the homeground. He will face Rajasthan Royals on 23 March, the match will start at 3.30 pm. Both teams also clashed in the qualifier-2 of the previous season. Hyderabad won the match and made it to the finals.
Sunrisers Hyderabad’s first match will be with Rajasthan Royals.
Final in Kolkata on 25 May The IPL has an opening and final match at the homeground of the defending champion team. This time too, both will be important matches at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata. The final will be played on 25 May. There will also be qualifier-2 in Kolkata itself. At the same time, the previous runner-up will be played in SRH’s homeground Hyderabad and Eliminator will be played.
RCB will enter the new captain’s leadership RCB gave information about its new captain on Thursday. Silver Patidar of Madhya Pradesh will captain the team in the 18th season. KKR will also play the tournament with the new captain. The previous captain Shreyas Iyer will play from Punjab Kings this season, so KKR will have to choose the new captain.
Rajat Patidar (left) has been made the new captain of RCB.
12 venue will be compared to 10 teams Apart from home grounds of 10 teams, matches will also be played in Guwahati and Dharamshala. Guwahati is the second homeground of Rajasthan Royals (RR), there will be 2 matches of the team. The team will clash from Kolkata on 26 March and Chennai on 30 March. Dharamshala is the second home ground of Punjab Kings (PBKS). The team will have 3 matches here.
The remaining homegrounds of 10 teams are Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Lucknow, Mullanpur, Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata and Hyderabad. The rest of the season matches will be played here. A total of 74 matches are to be held between 10 teams in the tournament.
Chennai and Mumbai won the most titles IPL is India’s franchise cricket tournament. It is played in T20 format every year from March to May. It started in 2008 with 8 teams. Rajasthan won the first season title by defeating Chennai by defeating the final.
Captain Rohit Sharma has won 5 IPL to Mumbai Indians.
In 2022, the tournament began to be 10 teams, since then only 10 teams participate. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Mumbai Indians (Mi) have won the maximum 5-5 titles. Kolkata is the third most successful team of the tournament by winning 3 titles. Delhi, Bengaluru, Punjab and Lucknow have not received a single title so far.
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