IPL 2021 is all set to get off the mark from April 9 with the opening game between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore. The tournament opener will be played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai under Covid-19 restrictions and guidelines.
The current scenario is not ideally fit for the fans to attend the game. This is the reason why the tournament is going to be played behind closed doors. Meanwhile, the venues have also been cut short and many teams will not get the advantage of playing on their home grounds. However, the teams have already reached the destination where they have to play their opening game and begin with their practice.
Recently, there were reports that IPL might get indefinitely postponed looking forward to the current spike in COVID-19 cases in India. But that has not been the case and BCCI has given the assurance that the tournament will go as per the schedule. Also, BCCI chief Sourav Ganguly stated that there will not be any changes in the venues.
So when the tournament is all set to begin from April 9 then the fans will want to know all the specific details related to IPL 2021 like full squad details of the franchises, Match Venues, Full IPL schedule. Let’s have a look over the same.
Full Squads For IPL 2021
| Team Name | Squads |
| Mumbai Indians | Rohit Sharma (C), Quinton De Kock, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Chris Lynn, Amolpreet Singh, Saurabh Tiwary, Aditya Tare, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan, Adam Milne, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, James Neesham, Yudhvir Singh, Marco Jansen, Arjun Tendulkar. |
| Punjab Kings | KL Rahul (C), Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Prabhsimran Singh, Mohammed Shami, Chris Jordan, Darshan Nalkande, Ravi Bishnoi, Murugan Ashwin, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Ishan Porel, Jhye Richardson, Riley Meredith, Dawid Malan, Shahrukh Khan, Moises Henriques, Jalaj Saxena, Utkarsh Singh, Saurabh Kumar, Fabian Allen. |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | Eoin Morgan (C), Dinesh Karthik, Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Gurkeerat Singh (replacement of Rinku Singh), Rahul Tripathi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Pat Cummins, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy, Andre Russell, Tim Seifert, Sunil Narine, Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Harbhajan Singh, Vaibhav Arora, Karun Nair, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer, Pawan Negi. |
| Chennai Super Kings | MS Dhoni (C), Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Sam Curran, Faf Du Plessis, Deepak Chahar, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Narayanan Jagadeesan, Lungi Ngidi, Shardul Thakur, Ambati Rayudu, R Sai Kishore, Mitchell Santner, Karn Sharma, Imran Tahir, KM Asif, Krishnappa Gowtham, Moeen Ali, Cheteshwar Pujara, Harishankar Reddy, Bhagath Verma, C Hari Nishanth, Robin Uthappa. |
| Rajasthan Royals | Sanju Samson (C), Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Kartik Tyagi, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, David Miller, Manan Vohra, Chris Morris, Shivam Dube, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, KC Cariappa, Liam Livingstone, Kuldip Yadav, Akash Singh. |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | Virat Kohli (C), AB De Villiers, Yuzvendra Chahal, Devdutt Padikkal, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pavan Deshpande, Daniel Sams, Harshal Patel, Kyle Jamieson, Glenn Maxwell, Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Daniel Christian, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Suyash Prabhudessai, KS Bharat, Finn Allen. |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | David Warner (C), Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Priyam Garg, Virat Singh, Jonny Bairstow, Wriddhiman Saha, Shreevats Goswami, Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Mohammad Nabi, Jason Roy, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddharth Kaul, Basil Thampi, Shahbaz Nadeem, Kedar Jadhav, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Jagadeesha Suchith. |
| Delhi Capitals | Rishabh Pant (C), Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ishant Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ajinkya Rahane, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Praveen Dubey, Lalit Yadav, Chris Woakes, Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripal Patel, Vishnu Vinod, Lukman Meriwala, M Siddharth, Tom Curran, Sam Billings. |
Match Venues For IPL 2021
Indian Premier League 2021 season will be played on only five venues. BCCI have shortlisted Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, and Kolkata.
IPL 2021 Full Schedule
| Match Number | DATE & DAY | MATCH | TIME (IST) | VENUE |
| 1 | April 9, Friday | Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers | 19:30 | Chennai |
| 2 | April 10, Saturday | Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Capitals | 19:30 | Mumbai |
| 3 | April 11, Sunday | Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders | 19:30 | Chennai |
| 4 | April 12, Monday | Rajasthan Royals vs Punjab Kings | 19:30 | Mumbai |
| 5 | April 13, Tuesday | Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians | 19:30 | Chennai |
| 6 | April 14, Wed | Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers | 19:30 | Chennai |
| 7 | April 15, Thursday | Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals | 19:30 | Mumbai |
| 8 | April 16, Friday | Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings | 19:30 | Mumbai |
| 9 | April 17, Saturday | Mumbai Indians vs Sunrisers Hyderabad | 19:30 | Chennai |
| 10 | April 18, Sunday | Royal Challengers vs Kolkata Knight Riders | 15:30 | Chennai |
| 11 | April 18, Sunday | Delhi Capitals vs Punjab Kings | 19:30 | Mumbai |
| 12 | April 19, Monday | Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals | 19:30 | Mumbai |
| 13 | April 20, Tuesday | Delhi Capitals vs Mumbai Indians | 19:30 | Chennai |
| 14 | April 21, Wed | Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad | 15:30 | Chennai |
| 15 | April 21, Wed | Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings | 19:30 | Mumbai |
| 16 | April 22, Thursday | Royal Challengers vs Rajasthan Royals | 19:30 | Mumbai |
| 17 | April 23, Friday | Punjab Kings vs Mumbai Indians | 19:30 | Chennai |
| 18 | April 24, Saturday | Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders | 19:30 | Mumbai |
| 19 | April 25, Sunday | Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers | 15:30 | Mumbai |
| 20 | April 25, Sunday | Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Delhi Capitals | 19:30 | Chennai |
| 21 | April 26, Monday | Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders | 19:30 | Ahmedabad |
| 22 | April 27, Tuesday | Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore | 19:30 | Ahmedabad |
| 23 | April 28, Wed | Chennai Super Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad | 19:30 | Delhi |
| 24 | April 29, Thursday | Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals | 15:30 | Delhi |
| 25 | April 29, Thursday | Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders | 7.30 PM | Ahmedabad |
| 26 | April 30, Friday | Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore | 7.30 PM | Ahmedabad |
| 27 | May 1, Saturday | Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings | 7.30 PM | Delhi |
| 28 | May 2, Sunday | Rajasthan Royals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad | 15:30 | Delhi |
| 29 | May 2, Sunday | Punjab Kings Vs Delhi Capitals | 7.30 PM | Ahmedabad |
| 30 | May 3, Monday | Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers | 7.30 PM | Ahmedabad |
| 31 | May 4, Tueday | Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Mumbai Indians | 7.30 PM | Delhi |
| 32 | May 5, Wednesday | Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings | 7.30 PM | Delhi |
| 33 | May 6, Thursday | Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Punjab Kings | 7.30 PM | Ahmedabad |
| 34 | May 7, Friday | Sunrisers Hyderabad v Chennai Super Kings | 7.30 PM | Delhi |
| 35 | May 8, Saturday | Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Capitals | 3.30 PM | Ahmedabad |
| 36 | May 8, Saturday | Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians | 7.30 PM | Delhi |
| 37 | May 9, Sunday | Chennai Super Kings v Punjab Kings | 3.30 PM | Bengaluru |
| 38 | May 9, Sunday | Royal Challengers v Sunrisers Hyderabad | 7.30 PM | Kolkata |
| 39 | May 10, Monday | Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders | 7.30 PM | Bengaluru |
| 40 | May 11, Tuesday | Delhi Capitals v Rajasthan Royals | 7.30 PM | Kolkata |
| 41 | May 12, Wednesday | Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders | 7.30 PM | Bengaluru |
| 42 | May 13, Thursday | Mumbai Indians v Punjab Kings | 3.30 PM | Bengaluru |
| 43 | May 13, Thursday | Sunrisers Hyderabad v Rajasthan Royals | 7.30 PM | Kolkata |
| 44 | May 14, Friday | Royal Challengers Bangalore v Delhi Capitals | 7.30 PM | Kolkata |
| 45 | May 15, Saturday | Kolkata Knight Riders v Punjab Kings | 7.30 PM | Bengaluru |
| 46 | May 16, Sunday | Rajasthan Royals v Royal Challengers | 3.30 PM | Kolkata |
| 47 | May 16, Sunday | Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians | 7.30 PM | Bengaluru |
| 48 | May 17, Monday | Delhi Capitals v Sunrisers Hyderabad | 3.30 PM | Kolkata |
| 49 | May 18, Tuesday | Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals | 3.30 PM | Bengaluru |
| 50 | May 19, Wednesday | Sunrisers Hyderabad v Punjab Kings | 3.30 PM | Bengaluru |
| 51 | May 20, Thursday | Royal Challengers Bangalore v Mumbai Indians | 3.30 PM | Kolkata |
| 52 | May 21, Friday | Kolkata Knight Riders v Sunrisers Hyderabad | 3.30 PM | Bengaluru |
| 53 | May 21, Friday | Delhi Capitals v Chennai Super Kings | 7.30 PM | Kolkata |
| 54 | May 22, Saturday | Punjab Kings v Rajasthan Royals | 7.30 PM | Bengaluru |
| 55 | May 23, Sunday | Mumbai Indians v Delhi Capitals | 3.30 PM | Kolkata |
| 56 | May 23, Sunday | Royal Challengers v Chennai Super Kings | 7.30 PM | Kolkata |
| 57 | May 25, Tuesday | QUALIFIER 1 | 7.30 PM | Ahmedabad |
| 58 | May 26, Wed | ELIMINATOR | 7.30 PM | Ahmedabad |
| 59 | May 28, Friday | QUALIFIER 2 | 7.30 PM | Ahmedabad |
| 60 | May 30, Sunday | FINAL | 7.30 PM | Ahmedabad |
