Dates: 5 Apr 2017 – 21 May 2017
Champion Team: Mumbai Indians
Total Matches played: 60
It is that point of the year once a fresh season of Indian Premier League (IPL) is simply round the corner. IPL ten is anticipated to be larger and higher than all its previous seasons. it’ll kick-off with the primary match between defensive champions Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and runners-up Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) at the Rajiv Gandhi International bowl in Hyderabad on April five. the ultimate are contended at an equivalent venue on might twenty one. The tournament can yet again have a total of eight franchise groups. An equivalent format are followed as within the previous editions, wherever every team plays each alternative team a minimum of doubly on the house and away leg format.
A total of fifty six league matches would therefore be contend, whereas additionally, four play-off matches would be contend as well as the ultimate. the highest four groups from the league stage can qualify for the play-offs stage with the groups ending at No. one and two on the points table obtaining 2 shots to form it to the ultimate. Every team can get a pair of points for an ending whereas a no result can fetch a point every to the two groups. Also, just in case of tied games, super-over methodology are accustomed verify the winner. The matches are contended across ten venues within the country in urban center, Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mohali, Mumbai, Pune and Rajkot. Indore is ready to form a come to IPL when a spot of six years, as 3 matches were contended within the town throughout IPL four in 2011.
Before the season gets current, all the franchises weekday down in Bengaluru on February twenty for the customary IPL player auction, wherever new players are purchased by the franchises so as to fill in their squads. Previous the auction, Rising Pune Supergiants (RPS) raped MS Dhoni from captaincy; a development that hit the headlines. On the auction day, the Sanjiv Goenka-owned franchise created another weird move, once it bought England expert mount Stokes for a banging bureau fourteen.5 crores, therefore creating him the most costly overseas player within the history of the league also as costliest player in IPL ten.
The other highlights of the auction were England pacer Tymal Mills about to RCB for Bureau of Intelligence and Research twelve crores, Ishant Sharma, Irfan Pathan and Imran Tahir going unsold, 2 Afghanistan and one UAE player creating it to the IPL for the primary time and therefore the Committee of directors (CoA) running the show within the wake of Lodha committee recommendations being implemented on the Board of management for Cricket in Republic of India (BCCI) by the Supreme Court (SC).
After the auction, IPL Chairman Rajiv Shukla said: “I am assured that IPL ten are higher than the opposite editions. Best needs to all or any the groups.” Shukla’s words came when sixty-six players, as well as twenty-seven overseas players, were sold to the franchises at the auction. Going by his words, the 10-team tournament is so set to witness its best season until date.
