IPL 2021 Schedule, Fixtures, Time Table: The Indian Premier League is set to be back for its next edition from April 9. After relocating the tournament to the United Arab Emirates last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the cash-rich league will be held in India again. The season is slated to kick off with defending champions Mumbai Indians taking on Royal Challengers Bangalore in Chennai. All the matches will take place at five venues — Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, and Bangalore. The final of the tournament will be played in Ahmedabad on May 29th. FULL IPL 2021 SCHEDULE Match Day Match No Day Date Time Venue Home Away 1 1 Fri 9-Apr 7.30 pm Chennai MI RCB 2 2 Sat 10-Apr 7.30 pm Mumbai CSK DC 3 3 Sun 11-Apr 7.30 pm Chennai SRH KKR 4 4 Mon 12-Apr 7.30 pm Mumbai RR PK 5 5 Tue 13-Apr 7.30 pm Chennai KKR MI 6 6 Wed 14-Apr 7.30 pm Chennai SRH RCB 7 7 Thus 15-Apr 7.30 pm Mumbai RR DC 8 8 Fri 16-Apr 7.30 pm Mumbai PK CSK 9 9 Sat 17-Apr 7.30 pm Chennai MI SRH 10 10 Sun 18-Apr 3.30 pm Chennai RCB KKR 10 11 Sun 18-Apr 7.30 pm Mumbai DC PK 11 12 Mon 19-Apr 7.30 pm Mumbai CSK RR 12 13 Tue 20-Apr 7.30 pm Chennai DC MI 13 14 Wed 21-Apr 3.30 pm Chennai PK SRH 13 15 Wed 21-Apr 7.30 pm Mumbai KKR CSK 14 16 Thur 22-Apr 7.30 pm Mumbai RCB RR 15 17 Fri 23-Apr 7.30 pm Chennai PK MI 16 18 Sat 24-Apr 7.30 pm Mumbai RR KKR 17 19 Sun 25-Apr 3.30 pm Mumbai CSK RCB 17 20 Sun 25-Apr 7.30 pm Chennai SRH DC 18 21 Mon 26-Apr 7.30 pm Ahmedabad PK KKR 19 22 Tue 27-Apr 7.30 pm Ahmedabad DC RCB 20 23 Wed 28-Apr 7.30 pm Delhi CSK SRH 21 24 Thu 29-Apr 3.30 pm Delhi MI RR 22 25 Thur 29-Apr 7.30 pm Ahmedabad DC KKR 23 26 Fri 30-Apr 7.30 pm Ahmedabad PK RCB 24 27 Sat 1-May 7.30 pm Delhi MI CSK 25 28 Sun 2-May 3.30 pm Delhi RR SRH 25 29 Sun 2-May 7.30 pm Ahmedabad PK DC 26 30 Mon 3-May 7.30 pm Ahmedabad KKR RCB 27 31 Tue 4-May 7.30 pm Delhi SRH MI 28 32 Wed 5-May 7.30 pm Delhi RR CSK 29 33 Thur 6-May 7.30 pm Ahmedabad RCB PK 30 34 Fri 7-May 7.30 pm Delhi SRH CSK 31 35 Sat 8-May 3.30 pm Ahmedabad KKR DC 31 36 Sat 8-May 7.30 pm Delhi RR MI 32 37 Sun 9-May 3.30 pm Bengaluru CSK PK 32 38 Sun 9-May 7.30 pm Kolkata RCB SRH 33 39 Mon 10-May 7.30 pm Bengaluru Mi KKR 34 40 Tue 11-May 7.30 pm Kolkata DC RR 35 41 Wed 12-May 7.30 pm Bengaluru CSK KKR 36 42 Thur 13-May 3.30 pm Bengaluru Mi PK 36 43 Thur 13-May 7.30 pm Kolkata SRH RR 37 44 Fri 14-May 7.30 pm Kolkata RCB DC 38 45 Sat 15-May 7.30 pm Bengaluru KKR PK 39 46 Sun 16-May 3.30 pm Kolkata RR RCB 39 47 Sun 16-May 7.30 pm Bengaluru CSK MI 40 48 Mon 17-May 7.30 pm Kolkata DC SRH 41 49 Tue 18-May 7.30 pm Bengaluru KKR RR 42 50 Wed 19-May 7.30 pm Bengaluru SRH PK 43 51 Thur 20-May 7.30 pm Kolkata RCB MI 44 52 Fri 21-May 3.30 pm Bengaluru KKR SRH 44 53 Fri 21-May 7.30 pm Kolkata DC CSK 45 54 Sat 22-May 7.30 pm Bengaluru PK RR 46 55 Sun 23-May 3.30 pm Kolkata MI DC 46 56 Sun 23-May 7.30 pm Kolkata RCB CSK Mon 24-May Rest Rest 47 57 Tue 25-May 7.30 pm Ahmedabad Qualifier 1 48 58 Wed 26-May 7.30 pm Ahmedabad Eliminator Thur 27-May Rest Rest 49 59 Fri 28-May 7.30 pm Ahmedabad Qualifier 2 Sat 29-May Rest Rest 50 60 Sun 30-May 7.30 pm Ahmedabad Final Earlier in February, the organisers held a mini-auction in Chennai where records were shattered in the blink of an eye. South Africa's Chris Morris became the most expensive signing in IPL history when Rajasthan Royals shelled out Rs 16.25 crores for the all-rounder. New Zealand's Kyle Jamieson and Australia's Jhye Richardson were signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings respectively for record prices. On the other hand, K Gowtham became the highest-earning uncapped player in IPL auction history after Chennai Super Kings signed him for Rs 9.25 crore. CHENNAI SUPER KINGS (CSK) FULL SQUAD AND PLAYERS LIST Faf du Plessis, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, N. Jagadeesan (wk), Robin Uthappa, MS Dhoni (c/wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Karn Sharma, R. Sai Kishore, Mitchell Santner, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Lungi Ngidi, Josh Hazlewood, KM Asif, Moeen Ali, K Gowtham, Cheteshwar Pujara, M Harisankar Reddy, K. Bhagath Varma, C Hari Nishanth DELHI CAPITALS (DC) FULL SQUAD AND PLAYERS LIST Shreyas Iyer (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Chris Woakes, R Ashwin, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Lalit Yadav, Pravin Dubey, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Avesh Khan, Steve Smith, Umesh Yadav, Ripal Patel, Vishnu Vinod, Lukman Meriwala, M Siddarth, Tom Curran, Sam Billings KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS (KKR) FULL SQUAD AND PLAYERS LIST Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Tim Seifert (wk), Rahul Tripathi, Rinku Singh, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Eoin Morgan (c), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun CV, Kuldeep Yadav, Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna, Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Vaibhav Arora, Karun Nair, Harbhajan Singh, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer, Pawan Negi MUMBAI INDIANS (MI) FULL SQUAD AND PLAYERS LIST Rohit Sharma (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwary, Anmolpreet Singh, Aditya Tare (wk), Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan, Adam Milne, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, James Neesham, Yudhvir Charak, Marco Jansen, Arjun Tendulkar PUNJAB KINGS (PK) FULL SQUAD AND PLAYERS LIST KL Rahul (c/wk), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Mandeep Singh, Prabsimran Singh, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Murugan Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Harpreet Brar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ishan Porel, Darshan Nalkande, Chris Jordan, Dawid Malan, Jhye Richardson, Shahrukh Khan, Riley Meredith, Moises Henriques, Jalaj Saxena, Utkarsh Singh, Fabian Allen , Saurabh Kumar RAJASTHAN ROYALS (RR) FULL SQUAD AND PLAYERS LIST Sanju Samson (c&wk), Jos Buttler (wk), Ben Stokes, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Manan Vohra, Anuj Rawat, Riyan Parag, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Mahipal Lomror, Shreyas Gopal, Mayank Markande, Jofra Archer, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi, Shivam Dube, Chris Morris, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, KC Cariappa, Liam Livingstone, Kuldip Yadav, Akash Singh ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE (RCB) FULL SQUAD AND PLAYERS LIST Virat Kohli (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Finn Allen (wk), AB de Villiers (wk), Pavan Deshpande, Washington Sundar, Daniel Sams, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Kane Richardson, Harshal Patel, Glenn Maxwell, Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Kyle Jamieson, Daniel Christian, Suyash Prabhudessai, K.S. Bharat SUNRISERS HYDERABAD (SRH) FULL SQUAD AND PLAYERS LIST David Warner (c), Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Manish Pandey, Sreevats Goswami (wk), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Priyam Garg, Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Virat Singh, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T. Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Basil Thampi, Jagadeesha Suchith, Kedar Jadhav, Mujeeb-ur-Rahman