IPL 2016: Teams, Squads, Schedule and Fixture

The Indian Premier League (IPL), India’s T20 carnival, is back to entertain the cricket crazy fans with its ninth edition. IPL has gone through big changes this year and will see two new franchise Rising Pune Giants (RPSG) and Gujarat Lions (GL). Both these teams have been included to replace suspended teams Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals.

The GL franchise was bought by Intex Technologies. The Rajkot-based team will play their home matches at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium. The RPSG, on the other hand, was purchased by the Kolkata-based businessman, Sanjiv Goenka. Pune will be playing their home games at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. Both the teams mostly comprise of players who formerly played for CSK and RR. The Gujarat franchise will be led by Suresh Raina while the Rising Pune Supergiants will be skippered by MS Dhoni.

Apart from these two teams, the rest of the franchises remain the same. The tournament is set to kickstart with a glamour-filled opening ceremony, featuring Bollywood personalities and all-girl English pop band ‘TBC’ on April 9 which will be followed by the first fixture where defending champions Mumbai Indians will take on debutants Rising Pune Supergiants. The group stages will go on till May 22nd. The knockout will start from May 24 after a day’s break. The final of the IPL 2016 will take place on May 29 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. In all, a total of 60 matches will be played this season.

IPL 2016 Teams and squads:

Kings XI Punjab:

Glenn Maxwell, Shaun Marsh, David Miller, Manan Vohra, Murali Vijay, Nikhil Naik, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Akshar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Mitchell Johnson, Wriddhiman Saha, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Kyle Abbott, KC Cariappa, Marcus Stoinis, Farhaan Behardien, Pradeep Sahu, Armaan Jaffer, Swapnil Singh, Rishi Dhawan.

Delhi Daredevils:

Zaheer Khan, Amit Mishra, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammad Shami, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mayank Agarwal, Jayant Yadav, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Imran Tahir, JP Duminy, Quinton de Kock, Pawan Negi, Chris Morris, Sanju Samson, Carlos Brathwaite, Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant, Sam Billings, Chama Milind, Pratyush Singh, Mahipal Lomror, Saeed Khaleel Ahmed, Akhil Herwadkar, Pawan Suyal.

Mumbai Indians:

Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Hardik Pandya, Ambati Rayudu, Jagadeesha Suchith, Jasprit Bumrah, Parthiv Patel, R Vinay Kumar, Shreyas Gopal, Nitish Rana, Siddhesh Lad, Unmukt Chand, Akshay Wakhare, Mitchell McClenaghan, Corey Anderson, Lendl Simmons, Kieron Pollard, Marchant de Lange, Lasith Malinga, Jos Buttler, Nathu Singh, Tim Southee, Krunal Pandya, Kishore Pramod Kamath, Deepak Punia, Jitesh Sharma.

Royal Challengers Bangalore:

Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Adam Milne, Mitchell Starc, Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Kane Richardson, Samuel Badree, Travis Head, Praveen Dubey, Vikramjeet Malik, Akshay Karnewar, Iqbal Abdullah, Sachin Baby, Vikas Tokas, Parvez Rasool, Lokesh Rahul, Varun Aaron, Abu Nechim, Sreenath Aravind, Kedar Jadhav, David Wiese.

Kolkata Knight Riders:

Gautam Gambhir, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Sheldon Jackson, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Brad Hogg, Chris Lynn, Morne Morkel, Shakib Al Hasan. Jaydev Unadkat, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, John Hastings, Jason Holder, Colin Munro, Rajgopal Sathish, Manan Ajay Sharma.

Sunrisers Hyderabad:

Ashish Reddy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Bipul Sharma, Karn Sharma, Naman Ojha, Ricky Bhui, Shikhar Dhawan, Siddharth Kaul, David Warner, Moises Henriques, Eoin Morgan, Kane Williamson, Trent Boult, Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra, Deepak Hooda, Mustafizur Rahman, Aditya Tare, Barinder Singh Sran, Ben Cutting, Vijay Shankar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Tirumalsetti Suman.

Rising Pune Supergiants:

MS Dhoni, Steven Smith, Faf du Plessis, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mitchell Marsh, Ashwin Murugan, Ishant Sharma, Kevin Pietersen, Irfan Pathan, Thisara Perera, Rajat Bhatia, Ashoke Dinda, Scott Boland, Peter Handscomb, RP Singh, Adam Zampa, Ishwar Pandey, Deepak Chahar, Jaskaran Singh, Baba Aparajith, Ankush Bains, Ankit Sharma, Saurabh Tiwary, Albie Morkel.

Gujarat Lions:

Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, James Faulkner, Brendon McCullum, Praveen Kumar, Dale Steyn, Dinesh Karthik, Dwayne Smith, Dhawal Kulkarni, Aaron Finch, Eklavya Dwivedi, Andrew Tye, Ishan Kishan, Jaydev Shah, Shadab Jakati, Pravin Tambe, Pradeep Sangwan, Amit Mishra, Shivil Kaushik, Aksh Deep Nath, Sarabjeet Ladda, Umang Sharma, Paras Dogra.

Schedule:

9th April 2016 | 8.00pm

1^st Match – Mumbai Indians vs Rising Pune Supergiants, Mumbai

10^th April 2016 |8.00 pm

2^nd Match – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata

11^th April 2016 | 8.00 pm

3^rd Match – Kings XI Punjab vs Gujarat Lions, Mohali

12^th April 2016 | 8.00 pm

4^th Match – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Bengaluru

13^th April 2016 | 8.00 pm

5^th Match – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians, Kolkata

14^th April 2016 | 8.00 pm

6^th Match – Gujarat Lions vs Rising Pune Supergiants, Rajkot

15^th April 2016 | 8.00 pm

7^th Match – Delhi Daredevils vs Kings XI Punjab, Delhi

16^th April 2016 | 4.00 pm

8^th Match – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Hyderabad

16^th April 2016 |8.00 pm

9^th Match – Mumbai Indians vs Gujarat Lions, Mumbai

17^th April 2016 | 4.00 pm

10^th Match – Kings XI Punjab vs Rising Pune Supergiants, Mohali

17^th April 2016 |8.00 pm

11^th Match – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Daredevils, Bengaluru

18^th April 2016| 8.00 pm

12^th Match – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Mumbai Indians,

19^th April 2016 | 8.00 pm

13^th Match – Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Mohali

20^th April 2016 | 8.00 pm

14^th Match – Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mumbai

21^st April 2016 | 8.00 pm

15^th Match – Gujarat Lions vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rajkot

22^nd April 2016 | 8.00 pm

16^th Match – Rising Pune Supergiants vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Pune

23^rd April 2016 | 4.00 pm

17^th Match – Delhi Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians, Delhi

23^rd April 2016 | 8.00 pm

18^th Match – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kings XI Punjab, Hyderabad

24^th April 2016 | 4.00 pm

19^th Match – Gujarat Lions vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Rajkot

24^th April 2016 | 8.00 pm

20^th Match – Rising Pune Supergiants vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Pune

25^th April 2016 | 8.00 pm

21^st Match – Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians, Mohali

26^th April 2016 | 8.00 pm

22^nd Match – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rising Pune Supergiants, Hyderabad

27^th April 2016 | 8.00 pm

23^rd Match – Delhi Daredevils vs Gujarat Lions, Delhi

28^th April 2016 | 8.00 pm

24^th March – Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders

29^th April 2016 | 8.00

25^th Match – Rising Pune Supergiants vs Gujarat Lions, Pune

30^th April 2016 | 4.00

26^th Match – Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Delhi

30^th April 2016 | 8.00

27^th Match – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Hyderabad

1^st May 2016 | 4.00 pm

28^th Match – Gujarat Lions vs Kings XI Punjab, Rajkot

1^st May 2016 | 8.00

29^th Match – Rising Pune Supergiants vs Mumbai Indians, Pune

2^nd May 2016 | 8.00

30^th Match – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Bengaluru

3^rd May 2016 | 8.00

31^st Match – Gujarat Lions vs Delhi Daredevils, Rajkot

4^th May 2016 | 8.00

32^nd Match – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab, Kolkata

5^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

33^rd Match – Delhi Daredevils vs Rising Pune Supergiants, Delhi

6^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

34^th Match – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Gujarat Lion, Hyderabad

7^th May 2016 | 4.00 pm

35^th Match – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rising Pune Supergiants, Bengaluru

7^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

36^th Match – Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Daredevils, Nagpur

8^th May 2016 | 4.00 pm

37^th Match – Mumbai Indians vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Mumbai

8^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

38^th Match Kolkata Knight Riders vs Gujarat Lions, Kolkata

9^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

39^th Match – Kings XI Punjab vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Nagpur

10 May 2016 | 8. 00 pm

40^th Match – Rising Pune Supergiants vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Pune

11^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

41^st Match – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians, Bengaluru

12^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

42^nd Match – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Delhi Daredevils, Hyderabad

13^th May 2016 | 8.00pm

43^rd Match – Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab, Mumbai

14^th May 2016 | 4.00 pm

44^th Match – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Gujarat Lions, Bengaluru

14^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

45^th Match – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rising Pune Supergiants, Kolkata

15^th May 2016 | 4.00 pm

46^th Match – Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils, Mumbai

15^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

47^th Match – Kings XI Punjab vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Nagpur

16^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

48^th Match – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kolkata

17^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

49^th Match – Rising Pune Supergiants vs Delhi Daredevils, Pune

18^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

50^th Match – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kings XI Punjab, Bengaluru

19^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

51^st Match – Gujarat Lions vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajkot/Kanpur

20^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

52^nd Match – Delhi Daredevils vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Raipur

21^st May 2016 | 4.00 pm

53^rd Match – Rising Pune Supergiants vs Kings XI Punjab, Pune

21^st May 2016 | 8.00 pm

54^th Match – Gujarat Lions vs Mumbai Indians, Rajkot/Kanpur

22^nd May 2016 | 4.00 pm

55^th Match – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Kolkata

22^nd May 2016 | 8.00 pm

56^th Match – Delhi Daredevils vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Raipur

Playoffs

24^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

Qualifier 1, Bengaluru

25^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

Eliminator, Pune

27^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

Qualifier 2, Pune

Final

29^th May 2016 | 8.00 pm

What can we expect from the opening ceremony? – Extraordinary opening ceremony to kick-off IPL 2016