16th Edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) starts tomorrow 31st March'23

Hello and welcome to all the readers

The inaugural Women's Premier league completed on 24th March'23 with Mumbai Indians women as the champions.

Now its men's turn, the 16th Edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) starts tomorrow, 31st March'23

source: https://www.iplt20.com/teams

This year the matches will be played all over India. With each team playing 7 home and 7 away matches.

10 teams divided into two groups of 5 teams will compete for the trophy.

The format remains the same as last year, the only difference is home and away matches. This is now possible as there are no covid restrictions. This gives the home teams an advantage in home games.

Teams

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Indian_Premier_League

Two Groups

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Indian_Premier_League

New Rules

1. penalty of 5 runs on the fielding side if unfair movement of fielder or wicketkeeper happened and the delivery will be declared dead by the umpire.
2. The captains are now allowed to declare playing XI and impact player list after the toss. This makes game more interesting.
3. If any team failed to bowl overs in allocated time, then only four fielders will be allowed outside the 30 yards area for the remaining overs.
4. Teams can now also review wides and no-balls using DRS.
5. Impact Players, where teams can name four substitutes for a match in addition to the starting XI. Only one can be used as substitute during the match.

The tournament:

70 round robin matches, Qualifier1/Eliminator, Qualifier2 and Finals on 28th May. Almost 2 months of non-stop cricket.

First Match

source: https://www.iplt20.com/teams

The first match will be played between Chennai Super kings and the defending champions Gujarat Titans.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni v/s Hardik Pandya at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad.

A few impact Players:

Chennai Super Kings - MS Dhoni, Ben Stokes, Ravindra Jadeja

Gujarat Titans - David Miller, Hardik Pandya, Odean Smith, Alzaari Joseph

Do you follow IPL? Which team is your favourite?
and
who you think will take the first hat-trick of this 16th edition of IPL?
Do comment below..

I am not following any team in particular. But i do look forward to nail-biting finishes. Lots of power-hitting and excellent bowling spells.

Thank you for reading my post.

Have a nice day.

Farhad
[imfarhad]

Failure is not the opposite of Success. It is part of Success.
--- William Ritter

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Disclaimer:

I don't own any of the images used in this post.
The logos are owned by the respective franchises, available on itpl20 website - https://www.iplt20.com/teams.
The source of information about the teams, groups etc - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Indian_Premier_League.

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