IPL 2017 Full List

The IPL 2017 tournament has been started on 5th April in Hyderabad, while the final will be Palyed in the Hyderabad on 21st May.

► Here is the full list of matches of IPL 2017:



 Match 1: SRH vs RCB, April 5 2017, 8 PM

 Match 2: Rising Pune Supergiant vs Mumbai Indians, April 6 2017, 8 PM

 Match 3: Gujarat Lions vs KKR, April 7 2017, 8 PM

 Match 4: Kings XI Punjab vs Rising Pune Supergiant, April 8 2017, 4 PM

 Match 5: RCB vs Delhi Daredevils, April 8 2017, 8 PM

 Match 6: SRH vs Gujarat Lions, April 9 2017, 4 PM

 Match 7: Mumbai Indians vs KKR, April 9 2017, 8 PM

 Match 8: Kings XI Punjab vs RCB, April 10 2017, 8 PM

 Match 9: Rising Pune Supergiant vs Delhi Daredevils, April 11 2017, 8 PM

 Match 10: Mumbai Indians vs SRH, April 12 2017, 8 PM

 Match 11: KKR vs Kings XI Punjab, April 13 2017, 8 PM

 Match 12: RCB vs Mumbai Indians, April 14 2017, 4 PM

 Match 13: Gujarat Lions vs Rising Pune Supergiant, April 14 2017, 8 PM

 Match 14: KKR vs SRH, April 15 2017, 4 PM

 Match 15: Delhi Daredevils vs Kings XI Punjab, April 15 2017, 8 PM

 Match 16: Mumbai Indians vs Gujarat Lions, April 16 2017, 4 PM

 Match 17: RCB vs Rising Pune Supergiant, April 16 2017, 8 PM

 Match 18: Delhi Daredevils vs KKR, April 17 2017, 4 PM

 Match 19: SRH vs Kings XI Punjab, April 17 2017, 8 PM

 Match 20: Gujarat Lions vs RCB, April 18 2017, 8 PM

 Match 21: SRH vs Delhi Daredevils, April 19 2017, 8 PM

 Match 22: Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians, April 20 2017, 8 PM

 Match 23: KKR vs Gujarat Lions, April 21 2017, 8 PM

 Match 24: Delhi Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians, April 22 2017, 4 PM

 Match 25: Rising Pune Supergiant vs SRH, April 22 2017, 8 PM

 Match 26: Gujarat Lions vs Kings XI Punjab, April 23 2017, 4 PM

 Match 27: KKR vs RCB, April 23 2017, 8 PM

 Match 28: Mumbai Indians vs Rising Pune Supergiant, April 24 2017, 8 PM

 Match 29: RCB vs SRH, April 25 2017, 8 PM

 Match 30: Rising Pune Supergiant vs KKR, April 26 2017, 8 PM

 Match 31: RCB vs Gujarat Lions, April 27 2017, 8 PM

 Match 32: KKR vs Delhi Daredevils, April 28 2017, 4 PM

 Match 33: Kings XI Punjab vs SRH, April 28 2017, 8 PM

 Match 34: Rising Pune Supergiant vs RCB, April 29 2017, 4 PM

 Match 35: Gujarat Lions vs Mumbai Indians, April 29 2017, 8 PM

 Match 36: Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Daredevils, April 30 2017, 4 PM

 Match 37: SRH vs KKR, April 30 2017, 8 PM

 Match 38: Mumbia Indians vs RCB, May 1 2017, 4 PM

 Match 39: Rising Pune Supergiant vs Gujarat Lion, May 1 2017, 8 PM

 Match 40: Delhi Daredevils vs SRH, May 2 2017, 8 PM

 Match 41: KKR vs Rising Pune Supergiant, May 3 2017, 8 PM

 Match 42: Delhi Daredevils vs Gujarat Lions, May 4 2017, 8 PM

 Match 43: RCB vs Kings XI Punjab, May 5 2017, 8 PM

 Match 44: SRH vs Rising Pune Supergiant, May 6 2017, 4 PM

 Match 45: Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils, May 6 2017, 8 PM

 Match 46: RCB vs KKR, May 7 2017, 4 PM

 Match 47: Kings XI Punjab vs Gujarat Lions, May 7 2017, 8 PM

 Match 48: SRH vs Mumbai Indians, May 8 2017, 8 PM

 Match 49: Kings XI Punjab vs KKR, May 9 2017, 8 PM

 Match 50: Gujarat Lions vs Delhi Daredevils, May 10 2017, 8 PM

 Match 51: Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab, May 11 2017, 8 PM

 Match 52: Delhi Daredevlis vs Rising Pune Super Giant, May 12 2017, 8 PM

 Match 53: Gujarat Lions vs SRH, May 13 2017, 4 PM

 Match 54: KKR vs Mumbai Indians, May 13 2017, 8 PM

 Match 55: Rising Pune Supergiant vs Kings XI Punjab, May 14 2017, 4 PM

 Match 56: Delhi Daredevils vs RCB, May 15 2017, 8 PM

 1st Qualifier: May 16 2017, 8 PM

 Eliminator: May 17 2017, 8 PM

 2nd Qualifier: May 19 2017, 8 PM


 Final: May 21 2017, 8 PM

Extravaganza of IPL 2017 Starts off

The tenth season of the IPL is now underway with Hyderabad hosting the first of the eight ‘opening ceremonies’. Eight teams and many stars in this glamourous league but there may be no applause louder than when Indian cricket’s ‘Fab Four’ entered the arena for a special felicitation by the BCCI. Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag and local favourite VVS Laxman each were given mementos by members of the COA before the fanfare started.Virat Kohli and David Warner were ushered into the stadium on open jeeps with the captain of the defending champions’ side Warner carrying the trophy with him.

Excerpts:
Sachin Tendulkar: I cannot believe that the IPL has reached 10 years. This is a big achievement. When IPL was announced in 2007 I never thought the league would become so big.

VVS Laxman, Assistant coach - Sunrisers Hyderabad: The biggest gain from the IPL is for the uncapped players. The kind of exposure they get not just from Indian players but cricketers from around the globe.

Sourav Ganguly: It is phenomenal to see the effect IPL has had on cricket. I went to watch the FIFA World Cup some years back, and this is very close to that. The people it attracts is amazing.

Virender Sehwag, Head of Cricket Operations - KXIP: I think I played all three formats in the same way. I never changed my mindset, I tried to play and hit every ball in Tests or T20. I believe in one thing - if you play cricket, you should play to entertain people.

Images:

Bollywood actress Amy Jackson performed in the opening of IPL 2017.

Photo-op of Captains before kicking off IPL 2017 Edition

The 2017 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is going to kick off with the first game between Defending Champions Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore today.
The Title sponsor for this year is VIVO.

The captains, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, David Warner, Glenn Maxwell, Steven Smith, Zaheer Khan, Gautam Gambhir, and Rohit Sharma pose with the trophy during the Vivo IPL 2017 Captain’s Meeting.

▶ Changes in captaincy -
Pune : S Smith
Punjab : G Maxwell

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Has Gambhir 'Forcefully' ignored ?

Four consecutive half-centuries as captain with the scores of 77, 59, 90 and 94 in the 2016 edition of Duleep Trophy can describe the hunger of making runs in the left-hand southpaw Gautam Gambhir. The unsung hero of the 2011 world cup final, who is turning 35 years-old next month still have the same strike on the ball, is currently out of the national squad ever since he made 3 runs versus England in his last test which was played two summers ago.

Gambhir did not consider for test series against NZ

The selection committee led by Sandeep Patil, who has now been left selection committee, chose following squad for test series against New Zealand which kicks start from 22 September :

Squad: Virat Kohli (Capt), KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Murali Vijay, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Amit Mishra, Umesh Yadav

There were quite a few eyebrows raised after the selectors announced their 15-member squad, Apart from Stuart Binny and Mumbai uncapped pacer Shardul Thakur who were in the squad for west indies tour, rest team is same. After being not considered for test squad, disappointed Gambhir post a quote on microblogging website twitter to express his view.

Some might raise fingers on the selectors' decision to award another chance to Rohit sharma and Shikhar Dhawan! They can ask questions to selectors because they (Rohit & Shikhar) both are considerably failed to show what they have been done in shorter format of the cricket after performing well in thier initial stage of test cricket. But, even after repeated failure, selection committee again showed their Blind-belief  upon these two openers.
Given the fact, both these openers are enjoying backing of Virat kohli in test cricket. One can assume that, in this whole scenario there is a name behind the existence of Gauti from test side may be or may not be of Virat Kohli ! Who was involved in a rift that was taken place in between him and Gautam Gambhir during an IPL match that too was not last forever between them. His relations with MS Dhoni is also not so good either. Which might cost him to secure a place in the national side even after a successful domestic journey as he garnered 488 runs in Ranji Trophy and more than 500 runs in IPL, which made him fourth-highest-run-getter in this season of Indian Premier League.
The road ahead looks not much smoother for Gambhir, who will now have to come up with something extraordinary in the Ranji Trophy that starts on 6 October to gain the attention of new selection chief.

Untill that happens, fans have to support him in this rough phase of his career and let him have a little hope.

No More Whistle-blowing for CSK, Dhoni set to leave !

Stalwart of Chennai Super Kings MS Dhoni all set to end his eight years long association with CSK. Currently, CSK has been faced a two years ban for alleged involvement in match-fixing by it's officials.





He association with CSK is from 2008, which was the very first edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) where CSK franchises bought him for the highest price of  $1.5 million for the first edition. His involvement in CSK brought a lot of fan following from different states of India specially from Bihar and Jharkhand. He was also not disappointed his fans and owners by winning IPL trophy in 2010 and 2011 & CLT-20 edition in 2010 and 2014.


If Dhoni continues to play after two years, then CSK will most probably try to buy him back. "We won't say Dhoni's association with CSK is over, but for now, he will play for some other team," the source added. He also revealed "Dhoni will definitely feature in the IPL for a new team. There is absolutely no pressure from CSK to stop him".


It may be possible that we might seen two new teams in IPL-9. So it is going to be interesting to see which franchise will make this 'synonymous of the CSK'  a part of their team. 
With inputs from agencies