IPL 2024 to start on March 22, Chennai to host season opener: Report

The Indian Premier League is scheduled to kick off from March 22, Cricbuzz reported. The start of the match was virtually confirmed to be March 22 as per the earlier media studies and a number of officers have now mentioned that it’s going to start on that day solely.

“The league will kick off on March 22 in Chennai,” Arun Dhumal, IPL chairman mentioned as quoted by Cricbuzz. The match will start at Chennai Super Kings’ dwelling floor and there will even be an inaugural ceremony earlier than the start of the match. However, the opponents of the match opener will not be confirmed but. “It has not been finalized yet,” Dhumal mentioned on the opponents. “We have no information about the opponents as of now,” CSK’s CEO Kasi Viswanathan mentioned.

IPL will probably be saying a partial schedule of the match within the coming two days. The full schedule of the match will probably be out after the Election Commission of India confirms the dates for the overall elections. Dhumal mentioned that the IPL physique will announce the schedule for the primary 10-12 days as of now. “Initially, we will announce the programme for the first 10-12 days,” he added.

Also, as per the identical report, there will be extra centres concerned within the match than simply 10. The ECI will seemingly announce the election dates between the second and third week of March, following which IPL can verify the total schedule. Dhumal is assured that the match will probably be held in India solely.

This would be the seventeenth version of the match and Chennai Super Kings are the defending champions of the title. They are actually tied with Mumbai Indians with 5 IPL titles a chunk and each look to add extra to their trophy cupboard. While CSK will probably be led by their captain cool MS Dhoni, MI have a captaincy change with Hardik Pandya taking on from Rohit Sharma. 

He was traded by the MI franchise for Rs. 15 crores from Gujarat Titans, the crew with which Hardik gained the title in his maiden captaincy try and virtually took them to second on the trot in 2022 solely to fall brief on the finish to CSK. His captaincy absence will probably be stuffed by younger batter Shubman Gill, who was in sensational kind in the course of the earlier version of the match.