IPL 2018: Get Complete Schedule, Full List of Teams with Players & Online Tickets Detail of Vivo IPL Season 11

The eleventh edition of India’s biggest sporting tournament Indian Premier League (IPL) or VIVO Indian Premier League 2018 is all scheduled to kickstart on April 7. The timetable of two-month-long humongous event presents exciting fixtures that will continue until the IPL 11 final match on May 27. The opening match of IPL 2018 will see defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) take on Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in a home game held at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai post-IPL Opening Ceremony.  For the first time in the history of Indian Premier League, the opening ceremony will not have a participation of all team captains. It will be just skippers of playing sides of the first match i.e. Rohit Sharma of MI and MS Dhoni of CSK will be in attendance as BCCI cited lack of preparation and logistics at end of officials for such a mishappening.

Chennai team along with another team Rajasthan Royals (RR) captained by Steve Smith are making a return in the competition after a gap of two years. The other teams are Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) led by Virat Kohli, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) captained by Dinesh Karthik, Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) with Ravi Ashwin as the captain, Delhi Daredevils (DD) headed by Gautam Gambhir and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) captained by David Warner.

The complete schedule and timetable of IPL 2018 show a total of 60 matches (56 group stage and four knockoffs) played among eight teams. Like previous editions, league matches are divided into home and away fixtures with tickets of the same already made available to be booked online. As for the IPL 2018 match timings are concerned, they continue to be played at its regular slot of 4.00 pm and 8.00 pm IST. There are 13 doubleheaders with all taking place on Saturday and Sunday.

Let's take a look at Indian Premier League 2018 Stadiums: Mumbai Indians - Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai; Sunrisers Hyderabad - Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad; Royal Challengers Bangalore - M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru; Rajasthan Royals - Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur; Chennai Super Kings - M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai; Kolkata Knight Riders - Eden Gardens, Kolkata; Delhi Daredevils - Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi; Kings XI Punjab - Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali and Holkar Stadium, Indore. As for live telecast and  streaming details are concerned it Star Sports who will broadcast live coverage of  IPL along with all matches streamed live on Hotstar digital platform.

Book Tickets of Your Favourite IPL Team Matches

Supporting and cheering your favourite team from the stadium is truly a wonderful experience. For ten seasons, Indian Premier League has enjoyed packed stadiums with cheering crowd across all venues in India. And once again, the organizers are confident of pulling die-hard cricket fans to the stadiums. IPL has tied up with several platforms to sell tickets for the coming 2018 edition. BookMyShow is the official IPL ticketing partner for the Indian Premier League teams Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Mumbai Indians (MI) and Rajasthan Royals (RR). Tickets for the home games of these four IPL teams are available on India’s largest online entertainment and ticketing platform.

The tickets of all Mumbai Indians home matches to be held at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium are priced between Rs 800 to Rs 8000 and are available for sale except the one game against Delhi Daredevils on April 14, as it has been reserved for underprivileged children under the Reliance Foundation's social cause Education and Sports for All (ESA). Meanwhile, tickets of KKR matched at Eden Gardens in Kolkata are priced at Rs 400 onwards. Rajasthan Royals home matches held at Sawai Mansingh Stadium are available from Rs 500 onwards. Sale of tickets for CSK home games at MA Chidambaram Stadium are yet to begin on BookMyShow.

Coming to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) match tickets in IPL 2018, fans can start booking tickets on TicketGenie and Liveinstyle. The website link to buy RCB matches tickets is also mentioned on the official website of Royal Challengers Bangalore. The tickets to watch Virat Kohli and Co. at M Chinnaswamy Stadium are priced between at Rs 1750 to Rs 35000. However, there are several stands on the ground that are yet to open for sale. So, hopefully, ardent RCB and Kohli fans can get tickets are cheaper prices.

For Kings XI Punjab, Indian e-payments and e-commerce brand Paytm along with event ticketing platform Insider.in have joined hands to begin the sale of IPL 2018 tickets from March 22 onwards. The team’s games will be divided between Holkar Stadium Cricket Stadium, Indore and I.S. Bindra Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali. Insider.in is also selling tickets for Delhi Daredevils home matches held at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium. As for Sunrisers Hyderabad team, they have officially begun the sale of tickets for home games to be held at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium. The lowest price is Rs 500 and moves up to Rs 3,906.25.

Full Indian Premier League 2018 Schedule with Venue and Match Time Details

Full Squad of IPL 2017 Teams

Mumbai Indians Squad 2018 - Rohit Sharma (captain), Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Kieron Pollard, Pat Cummins, Evin Lewis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ben Cutting, Mustafizur Rahman, Rahul Chahar, Pradeep Sangwan, Jason Behrendorff, Jean-Paul Duminy, Saurabh Tiwary, Tajinder Dhillon, Akila Dhananjaya, Nidheesh M D Dinesan, Aditya Tare, Siddhesh Dinesh Lad, Mayank Markande, Sharad Lumba, Anukul Roy, Mohsin Khan.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad 2018 – Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan, Chris Woakes, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal, Umesh Yadav, Brendon McCullum, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Quinton De Kock, Mohammed Siraj, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Colin De Grandhomme, M. Ashwin, Parthiv Patel, Moeen Ali, Mandeep Singh, Manan Vohra, Pawan Negi, Tim Southee, Kulwant Khejroliya, Aniket Choudhary, Pavan Deshpande, Anirudha Ashok Joshi.

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad 2018 – Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Chris Lynn, Mitchell Starc, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Kuldeep Singh Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Nitish Rana, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Mitchell Johnson, Shubman Gill, Ranganath Vinay Kumar, Rinku Singh, Cameron Delport, Javon Searless, Apoorv Vijay Wankhade, Ishank Jaggi.

Sunrisers Hyderabad Squad 2018 – David Warner, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Manish Pandey, Rashid Khan Arman, Shikhar Dhawan, Wriddhiman Saha, Siddarth Kaul, Deepak Hooda, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Kane Williamson, Carlos Brathwaite, Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Shreevats Goswami, Mohammad Nabi, Chris Jordan, Basil Thampi, T Natarajan, Sachin Baby, Bipul Sharma, Syed Mehdi Hasan, Ricky Bhui, Tanmay Agarwal.

Chennai Super Kings Squad 2018 – MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina, Kedar Jadhav, Dwayne Bravo. Karn Sharma, Shane Watson, Shardul Thakur, Ambati Rayudu, Murali Vijay, Harbhajan Singh, Faf Du Plessis, Mark Wood, Sam Billings, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Mitchell Santner, Lungisani Ngidi, Asif K M, N Jagadeesan, Kanishk Seth, Monu Singh, Dhruv Shorey, Kshitiz Sharma, Chaitanya Bishnoi.

Rajasthan Royals Squad 2018 – Steve Smith, Benjamin Stokes, Jaydev Unadkat, Sanju Samson, Jofra Archer, Krishnappa Gowtham, Jos Buttler, Ajinkya Rahane, Darcy Short, Rahul Tripathi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Zahir Khan Pakteen, Ben Laughlin, Stuart Binny, Dushmantha Chameera, Anureet Singh, Aryaman Vikram Birla, Midhun S, Shreyas Gopal, Prashant Chopra, Jatin Saxena, Ankit Sharma, Mahipal Lomror.

Delhi Daredevils Squad 2018 – Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Chris Morris, Glenn Maxwell, Kagiso Rabada, Amit Mishra, Shahbaz Nadeem, Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Mohammad Shami, Gautam Gambhir, Trent Boult, Colin Munro, Daniel Christian, Jason Roy, Naman Ojha, Prithvi Shaw, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Avesh Khan, Abhishek Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Harshal Patel, Manjot Kalra, Sandeep Lamichhane, Sayan Ghosh.

Kings XI Punjab Squad 2018 – Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Ravichandran Ashwin, Andrew Tye, Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis, Karun Nair, Mujeeb Zadran, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, David Miller, Mohit Sharma, Barinder Singh Sran, Yuvraj Singh, Christopher Gayle, Ben Dwarshuis, Akshdeep Nath, Manoj Tiwary, Mayank Agarwal, Manzoor Dar, Pardeep Sahu, Mayank Dagar.

Get ready for the biggest tournament of the cricketing world as Indian Premier League returns in full glory. Grab your tickets to cheer Virat Kohli or MS Dhoni from the stadium stands or tune into Star Sports with your family and friends to have a blast following the match ball by ball. Yes, IPL 2018 is here and time to put on your team hat!

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