IPL 2022 Schedule, Venue, Team, Time Table, News, and a lot more
The most popular IPL (Indian Premier League) is back again in 2022 and announcements have been made by the BCCI. The IPL 2022 will be full of entertainment and you will find all the relevant information regarding it in this post. So, read this post below to know IPL 2022 Schedule, Teams, Venue, and LOT more.
IPL 2022 schedule news:
After IPL 2021, Cricket fans were eagerly waiting for the IPL 2022 and this will be the 15th edition. This year, this will be TATA IPL 2022, not VIVO IPL. It has been scheduled between 2nd April 2022 to 3rd June 2022 and the opening match will be the Chennai in M. A. Chidambaram Stadium Chennai.
Moreover, this year, 2 new teams were also added by the BCCI and completed the bidding for these 2 new franchises successfully. Hence, more updates regarding all this go through the post below.
IPL 2022 teams and players:
Last year only 8 teams had played the IPL matches. These were Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders, Delhi Capitals, Punjab Kings, Rajasthan Royals, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Now, in IPL 2022, a total of 10 team will play the match. The main objective behind adding the new teams is to achieve financial goals because due to the Covid lockdown BCCI suffered a lot of financial loss. Besides, these 10 teams are as follows:
- Chennai Super Kings
- Delhi Capitals
- Rajasthan Royals
- Mumbai Indians
- Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Kings XI Punjab
- Kolkata Knight Riders
- Lucknow Super Giants
- Gujarat Titans
Main players list:
| Mumbai Indians (MI) | Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Kieron Pollard |
| Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) | Sunil Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer |
| Delhi Capitals (DC) | Rishabh Pant, Anrich Nortje, Prithvi Shaw, Axar Patel |
| Kings XI Punjab (PBKS) | Arshdeep Singh, Mayank Agarwal |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) | Kane Williamson, Umran Malik, Abdul Samad, |
| Chennai Super Kings (CSK) | Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) | Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj |
| Rajasthan Royals (RR) | Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal |
| Gujarat Titans | Hardik Pandya, Shubam Gill, Rashid Khan |
| Lucknow Super Giants | KL Rahul, Marcus Stoinis, Ravi Bishnoi |
IPL 2022 Venue: India or UAE?
If everything will be fine and the situation will be under control for Covid-19 then IPL 2022 will be played in India. In the case of the COVID pandemic, UAE is the alternate location for BCCI to organize IPL and other major cricket tournaments. Moreover, the decision of the BCCI is not final till now. However, the Stadium list in India for various IPL matches is given below
- Chennai – M.A.Chidambaram Chepauk Stadium
- Mumbai – Wankhede Stadium
- Ahmedabad – Narendra Modi Stadium
- Bangalore – M.Chinnaswamy Stadium
- Delhi – Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium
- Kolkata – Eden Gardens Stadium
- Lucknow – BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium
IPL 2022 format:
The format of IPL 2022 will be the same as the previously played tournaments. There will be a total of 74 matches in IPL 2022. All the 10 teams will be divided into 2 groups and every team will play with each other two times. The teams of Group A and Group B will play each other one time. Every team from both A and B groups will play 1 more match, which will be chosen from the draw. Hence, each team will play 14 league matches and there will be 2 qualifiers, 1 eliminator, and the Final. In case the two teams have similar points, then their fate will be decided on the Points Table along with the Net Run Rate (NRR).
How is the Net Run Rate (NRR) calculated? In any match Net Run Rate is the average number of runs that a team scores in one over and minus the average no. of runs scored against it in each over.
Below we are giving you the tentative group details.
Group A :
- Chennai Super Kings
- Kolkata Knight Riders
- Royal challengers Bangalore
- Kings XI Punjab
- Lucknow Super Giants
Group B :
- Mumbai Indian
- Rajasthan Royals
- Delhi Capitals
- Gujarat Titans
- Sunrisers Hyderabad
IPL 2022 schedule:
Though, the BCCI has not released any official schedule of IPL 2022 matches yet. But, below we are giving a tentative schedule.
| S.No. | Match | Date | Time |
| 1 | CSK Vs KKR | 02-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 2 | SRH Vs RR | 03-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 3 | Ahmedabad Vs RCB | 04Apr-2022 | 15:30 |
| 4 | DC Vs MI | 05-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 5 | Lucknow Vs PBKS | 06-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 6 | KKR Vs SRH | 07-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 7 | RR Vs DC | 08-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 8 | RCB Vs MI | 09-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 9 | Lucknow Vs Ahmedabad | 10-Apr-2022 | 15:30 |
| 10 | PBKS Vs CSK | 11-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 11 | SRH Vs RCB | 12-Apr-2022 | 15:30 |
| 12 | MI Vs Ahmedabad | 13-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 13 | DC Vs KKR | 14-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 14 | CSK Vs RCB | 15-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 15 | SRH Vs PBKS | 16-Apr-2022 | 15:30 |
| 16 | RR Vs KKR | 17-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 17 | Lucknow Vs DC | 18-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 18 | Ahmedabad Vs CSK | 19-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 19 | DC Vs SRH | 20-Apr-2022 | 15:30 |
| 20 | RCB Vs RR | 21-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 21 | MI Vs Lucknow | 22-Apr-2022 | 15:30 |
| 22 | KKR Vs Ahmedabad | 23-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 23 | PBKS Vs RR | 24-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 24 | MI Vs CSK | 25-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 25 | KKR Vs RCB | 26-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 26 | DC Vs PBKS | 27-Apr-2022 | 15:30 |
| 27 | SRH Vs MI | 28-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 28 | RR Vs Ahmedabad | 29-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 29 | CSK Vs Lucknow | 30-Apr-2022 | 19:30 |
| 30 | DC Vs RCB | 01-May-2022 | 15:30 |
| 31 | Lucknow Vs CSK | 02-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 32 | Ahmedabad Vs SRH | 03-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 33 | KKR Vs PBKS | 04-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 34 | RR Vs MI | 05-May-2022 | 15:30 |
| 35 | RCB Vs Lucknow | 06-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 36 | Ahmedabad Vs DC | 07-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 37 | MI Vs PBKS | 08-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 38 | RR Vs Lucknow | 09-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 39 | CSK Vs SRH | 10-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 40 | DC Vs Ahmedabad | 11-May-2022 | 15:30 |
| 41 | SRH Vs KKR | 12-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 42 | CSK Vs RR | 13-May-2022 | 15:30 |
| 43 | Lucknow Vs MI | 14-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 44 | Ahmedabad Vs KKR | 15-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 45 | SRH Vs DC | 16-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 46 | RCB Vs PBKS | 17-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 47 | KKR Vs CSK | 18-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 48 | MI Vs DC | 19-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 49 | RCB Vs Ahmedabad | 20-May-2022 | 15:30 |
| 50 | PBKS Vs Lucknow | 21-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 51 | RR Vs CSK | 22-May-2022 | 15:30 |
| 52 | PBKS Vs MI | 23-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 53 | SRH Vs Lucknow | 24-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 54 | RR Vs RCB | 25-May-2022 | 15:30 |
| 55 | CSK Vs DC | 26-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 56 | Ahmedabad Vs PBKS | 27-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 57 | MI Vs SRH | 28-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 58 | RCB Vs KKR | 29-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 59 | PBKS Vs DC | 30-May-2022 | 15:30 |
| 60 | Ahmedabad Vs RR | 31-May-2022 | 19:30 |
| 61 | KKR Vs MI | 1-Jun-2022 | 15:30 |
| 62 | Lucknow Vs SRH | 2-Jun-2022 | 19:30 |
| 63 | PBKS Vs RCB | 3-Jun-2022 | 19:30 |
| 64 | CSK Vs Ahmedabad | 4-Jun-2022 | 19:30 |
| 65 | Lucknow Vs KKR | 5-Jun-2022 | 19:30 |
| 66 | MI Vs RR | 6-Jun-2022 | 19:30 |
| 67 | PBKS Vs SRH | 7-Jun-2022 | 19:30 |
| 68 | DC Vs Lucknow | 8-Jun-2022 | 15:30 |
| 69 | RCB Vs CSK | 9-Jun-2022 | 19:30 |
| 70 | KKR Vs RR | 10-Jun-2022 | 15:30 |
| 71 | Qualifier-1 | 11-Jun-2022 | 19:30 |
| 72 | Eliminator | 12-Jun-2022 | 19:30 |
| 73 | Qualifier-2 | 13-Jun-2022 | 19:30 |
| 74 | FINAL | 14-Jun-2022 | 19:30 |
How to Watch IPL 2022?
The fans of IPL are present not only in India but all over the world. All the fans were eagerly waiting for the tournament and were wondering how they could watch the matches, on TV or online. People are very much eager to know regarding the broadcasting and streaming details. Talking about India, the Star Sports Network has the right to broadcast all the 2022 IPL Matches live on Television. For online streaming, Disney + HotStar has the rights for streaming all the IPL matches online. In addition to this, Star India Network will telecast IPL 2022 matches in 6 languages- English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Bengali.
On the other hand, IPL live coverage is all across the way. If you are looking for the cheapest way to watch live matches in India then you can choose Hotstar. IPL fans can also stream IPL matches on Yupp TV for the USA, Foxtel for Australia, and beIN Connect for the Middle East.
Update: As the situation of COVID is better now in India as compared to the last so BCCI wants to host IPL 2022 in India. They are also looking for a fully packed stadium which is great to remember the old wonder days of seeing live cricket matches in the stadium. Apart from this, BCCI will upload details regarding the IPL 2022 matches tickets by the first week of March 2022.
IPL 2022: Will there be an opening ceremony or not?
In addition to the IPL matches, the fans also wait eagerly for the opening ceremony. This is an important topic in every season and various performances are also given by many Bollywood celebrities. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the opening ceremony in the year 2020 was not held but this year 2022, there are chances that the opening ceremony will occur. In this 15th edition of the IPL, we hope that things will be better as compared to last year.
In the Opening Ceremony of IPL 2022, Bollywood, as well as international stars, will dance to the tune of IPL and will entertain the viewers to the fullest. Additionally, as per the reports, the popular Bollywood Star Jacqueline Fernandez will perform in the opening ceremony along with Honey Singh. Also, there were many other star-studded performances for entertaining the fans efficiently. There will also be many cricket players and stars for catching the glimpse. Hence, this will be a golden chance for the fans to take a selfie with their favorite star.
Moreover, the date, venue, as well as time of the opening ceremony, is not decided yet and the BCCI will announce them after some days.
IPL Winner history:
The Indian Premier League winner history is given below.
| Season | Year | Winner |
| 14 | 2021 | TBD |
| 13 | 2020 | Mumbai Indians |
| 12 | 2019 | Mumbai Indians |
| 11 | 2018 | Chennai Super Kings |
| 10 | 2017 | Mumbai Indians |
| 9 | 2016 | Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| 8 | 2015 | Mumbai Indians |
| 7 | 2014 | Kolkata Knight Riders |
| 6 | 2013 | Mumbai Indians |
| 5 | 2012 | Kolkata Knight Riders |
| 4 | 2011 | Chennai Super Kings |
| 3 | 2010 | Chennai Super Kings |
| 2 | 2009 | Deccan Chargers |
| 1 | 2008 | Rajasthan Royals |
An overview of IPL awards:
As you know, the IPL tournament is a competitive league that’s why at the end of every season the high-performance players are rewarded. These awards are as follows:
- Orange Cap
- Purple Cap
- Fair play Award
- Emerging Player of the Season Award
- Game Changer of the Season Award
- Super Striker of the Season Award
- Most Sixes Award.
In addition to this, a complete list of season awards of the Indian Premier League 2020 are as follows:
- Orange Cap (Most Runs) – KL Rahul, Kings XI Punjab (670 runs in 14 matches)
- Most Valuable Player – Jofra Archer, Rajasthan Royals (20 wickets and 175 dot balls in 14 matches)
- Purple Cap (Most Wickets) – Kagiso Rabada, Delhi Capitals (30 wickets in 17 matches)
- Emerging Player of the Season – Devdutt Padikkal, Royal Challengers Bangalore (483 runs in 15 matches)
- Unacademy: Most Sixes in the Season – Ishan Kishan, Mumbai Indians (30 sixes in 14 matches)
- Dream XI Game Changer of the Season – KL Rahul, Kings XI Punjab (975 Fantasy Points)
- CRED Power Player of the Season – Trent Boult, Mumbai Indians (16 wickets in power play)
- Tata Altroz Super Striker of the Season – Kieron Pollard, Mumbai Indians (Strike Rate of 191.42)
- Fair Play Award – Mumbai Indians
Summary:
| IPL 2022 Schedule | From 2 April 2022 to 3 June 2022 (tentative) |
| Host | IPL (Indian Premier League) |
| Country | India |
| Administrator | Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) |
| Tournament Format | Group stage and playoffs |
| Format of Match | T20 (20 Over Cricket League Match) |
| IPL 2022 Start Date | 2 April 2022 (tentative) |
| IPL 2022 Final Date | 3 June 2022 (tentative) |
| Participants Team | 10- Mumbai Indian, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals, Gujarat Titans, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal challengers Bangalore, Kings XI Punjab, Lucknow Super Giants |
| Total Matches | 74 matches |
| IPL 2022 winner | TBD |
| Current Winner | Chennai Super Kings (CSK) |
| Prize Money | Winner: 40 Crore Indian Rupees |
Final words
That’s all about the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. This season of IPL we hope will surely be very entertaining and the Covid situation will not affect much. So, if you are the one who is eagerly waiting for the IPL 2022 then your wait is about to end. Therefore, we hope that this post will help in knowing all the vital details about IPL 2022 such as Venue, Teams, Schedule, and others.
