IPL 2025: Dates, Schedule, Format, Venues, Squads, Live Streaming And More About Indian Premier League

IPL 2025: The much-awaited 18th season of the Indian Premier League is set to begin this week. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the schedule for the IPL 2025 last month.

The 74 matches of the season will be played across 13 venues and will include 12 double-headers. Three of the 10 IPL franchises will play at 2 venues each.

The cricketing extravaganza will kick off when the defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) host the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata on March 22.

Here's everything you need to know about IPL 2025:

The 18th edition of IPL will commence on March 22 and the Final will be played on May 25. While the afternoon games will begin at 03:30 p.m., the evening games will begin from 7:30 p.m.

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Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Rajasthan Royals, Chennai Super Kings, and Punjab Kings are in one group, while Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Capitals, Gujarat Titans, Mumbai Indians, and Lucknow Super Giants are in the other.

The IPL will continue with its two-group structure after the 2022 expansion to a 10-team format. Each team will play:

• Twice against the four teams in their group

• Twice against one pre-determined team from the opposite group

• Once against the remaining four teams from the other group

Delhi Capitals will play their home games in Visakhapatnam and at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. RR will play their two home games at Guwahati - where they host KKR and CSK – and play the remainder of the home games at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. 

PBKS, meanwhile, will play their four home matches at the New PCA Stadium, New Chandigarh while the picturesque Dharamsala will host three home games of PBKS at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium.

• Arun Jaitley Stadium, New Delhi

• Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

• Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamshala

• New PCA Stadium, New Chandigarh

• Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

• MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

• Eden Gardens, Kolkata

• Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad

• M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

• Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad

• BRSABV Ekana Stadium, Lucknow

• Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam 

Star Sports Network will broadcast all the IPL 2025 matches live.

All the matches of the Indian Premier League 2025 will be streamed live on the JioHotstar app and website.

Rajat Patidar (C), Virat Kohli, Yash Dayal, Phil Salt (Wk), Liam Livingstone, Tim David, Jacon Bethell, Romario Shepherd, Josh Hazlewood, Nuwan Thushara, Devdutt Padikkal, Jitesh Sharma (Wk), Krunal Pandya, Rasikh Dar, Manoj Bhandage, Swastik Chikara, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Swapnil Singh, Mohit Rathee, Abhinandan Singh.

MS Dhoni (Wk), Vansh Bedi (Wk), Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Rahul Tripathi, Devon Conway, Shaik Rasheed, Andre Siddarth, Noor Ahmed, Khaleel Ahmed, Gurjapneet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesh Choudhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Jamie Overton, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Sam Curran, Vijay Shankar, Shivam Dube, Rachin Ravindra, Deepak Hooda, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Anshul Kamboj.

Ajinkya Rahane (C), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali, Ramandeep Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Luvnith Sisodia (Wk), Quinton de Kock (Wk), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Wk), Anrich Nortje, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Mayank Markande, Spencer Johnson, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy.

Hardik Pandya (C), Arjun Tendulkar, Ashwani Kumar, Bevon John Jacobs, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Karn Sharma, Mitchell Santner, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Naman Dhir, Raj Angad Bawa, Reece Topley, Robin Minz, Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Shrijith Krishnan, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Trent Boult, Will Jacks, Vignesh Puthur, Venkata Satyanarayana Penmetsa.

Sai Sudharshan, Shahrukh Khan, Sherfane Rutherford, Shubman Gill (C), Arshad Khan, Glenn Phillips, Karim Janat, Mahipal Lomror, Nishant Sindhu, Rahul Tewatia, Sai Kishore, Washington Sundar, Anuj Rawat (Wk), Jos Buttler (Wk), Kumar Kushagra (Wk), Gerald Coetzee, Gurnoor Brar, Ishant, Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Kagiso Rabada, Kulwant Khejroliya, Manav Suthar, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Rashid Khan

Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Shreyas Iyer (C), Harpreet Brar, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Priyansh Arya, Aaron Hardie, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Pravin Dubey, Vishnu Vinod (Wk), Josh Inglis (Wk), Nehal Wadhera, Harnoor Pannu, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Kuldeep Sen, Xavier Bartlett, Shashank Singh, Prabhsimran Singh (Wk).

Ashutosh Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Karun Nair, Sameet Rizvi, Ajay Mandal, Axar Patel, Madhav Tiwari, Manvanth Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, KL Rahul (Wk), Abhishek Porel (Wk), Donovan Ferreira (Wk), Tristan Stubbs (Wk), Darshan Nalkande, Dushmanth Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, T Natarajan, Vipraj Nigam.

Sanju Samson (C) (Wk), Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Kunal Rathore (Wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel (Wk), Riyan Parag, Nitish Rana, Yudhvir Singh, Jofra Archer, Maheesh Theekshana , Wanindu Hasaranga, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kwena Maphaka, Ashok Sharma, Sandeep Sharma.

Ishan Kishan (Wk), Atharva Taide, Abhinav Manohar, Aniket Verma, Sachin Baby, Henrich Klassen (Wk), Travis Head, Harshal Patel, Kamindu Mendis, Wiaan Mulder, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Pat Cummins (C), Mohammad Shami, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa, Simarjeet Singh, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga.

Rishabh Pant (C) (Wk), David Miller, Aiden Markram, Aryan Juyal (Wk), Himmat Singh, Matthew Breetzke, Nicholas Pooran (Wk), Mitchell Marsh, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmad, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Arshin Kulkarni, Ayush Badoni, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep, M Siddharth, Digvesh Singh, Akash Singh, Shamar Joseph, Prince Yadav, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi.

(With PTI inputs)