Indian Premier League(IPL 2021)

2021 Indian Premier League

The 2021 Indian Premier League, also known as IPL 14 or, for sponsorship reasons, Vivo IPL 2021,[1] will be the fourteenth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 cricket league established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. It is set to be played between April and May 2021.[2] Mumbai Indians are the two times defending champions, having won both the 2019 and the 2020 seasons. Kings XI Punjab have been renamed as the Punjab Kings.[3][4]

Background

Although earlier reports suggested the addition of two more teams in the season,[5][6][7] the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in their 89th AGM announced that there would not be any additional team for this season and the inclusion of two new teams should happen only in 2022.[8][9]

On 30 January 2021, the BCCI confirmed that they were confident to host the tournament in India. They also said that the UAE wasn't being considered as a backup venue.[2]

 

IPL 2021;List of all teams:-
  1. Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
  2. Delhi Capitals (DC)
  3. Kings XI Punjab (KXIP)
  4. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
  5. Mumbai Indians (MI)
  6. Rajasthan Royals (RR)
  7. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
  8. Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)



Personnel changes

The released players were announced on 20 January 2021. Steve Smith, Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell were the prominent names among the released players. Piyush Chawla, the costliest Indian player at the 2020 auction, was also released.[10]

The players' auction is scheduled to be held on 18 February 2021 in Chennai.[11] A total of 1097 players initially registered for the auction[12] of which 292 were selected for the auction.[13] 

References 

 

*This post collected from wikipedia.*

 

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