The latest edition of the IPL, IPL 10, also the tenth edition commences tomorrow in Hyderabad. A spectacular opening ceremony with star-studded performances and felicitation of the Fab 5 of the era gone by, Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly, VVS and Sehwag, opens the tournament, kicks off the tournament in Hyderabad. Later in the evening, the Royal Challengers Bangalore play against the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the first game of the tournament. Such extensive is the tournament and there are so many nuances involved that we thought a complete guide of the tournament would certainly help our readers.

Schedule – 

A total of 60 matches will be played over 47 days, featuring, as we all know, eight different teams who will play two games against every other Team, one home and one away. The top four Teams at the conclusion of the league stage will qualify to the play-offs where two Teams will be knocked out and the rest of the two will play a final in a bid to win the silverware.
* The final will be played on the 21st May in Hyderabad.
* Mumbai’s Wankhede will host the Qualifier 1 on May 16.
* Bangalore will host two knockout matches, the eliminator on May 17 and the Qualifier 2 on May 19.

Telecast and Live Streaming –

Sony Six, Sony Max and Sony ESPN will broadcast live matches. The live stream will be officially available on www.sonyliv.com and Hotstar.

Opening Ceremony –

Being the tenth edition of the super-hit league, the organisers have decided to host eight opening ceremonies.
Amy Jackson will perform at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on April 5.
Ritiesh Deshmukh will perform on the 6th April at the MCA Stadium, Pune.
Tiger Shroff will perform on the 7th April in Rajkot, at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium.
Holkar Cricket Stadium will host an opening ceremony on the 8th April.
An opening ceremony will be held in Mumbai on the 9th April.
Shraddha Kapoor and Monali Thakur perform at Eden Gardens on the 13th April.
Pareeniti Chopra will perform at the Ferozshah Kotla Stadium, New Delhi on the 15th April.

Time Table –

Squads –

Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner (captain), Tanmay Agarwal, Mohammad Nabi, Ekalavya Dwivedi, Rashid Khan, Pravin Tambe, Chris Jordan, Ben Laughlin, Mohammed Siraj, Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Moises Henriques, Naman Ojha, Ricky Bhui, Kane Williamson, Siddarth Kaul, Bipul Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Cutting, Abhimanyu Mithun, Mustafizur Rahman, Barinder Sran, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (captain), Pawan Negi, Tymal Mills, Aniket Choudhary, Praveen Dubey, Billy Stanlake, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sarfaraz Khan, S Aravind, Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Iqbal Abdulla, Travis Head, Sachin Baby, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi.

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (captain), Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Johnson, K Gowtham, Karn Sharma, Saurabh Tiwary, A Gunarathna , K Khejroliya, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Gopal, Lendl Simmons, Vinay Kumar, Parthiv Patel, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nitish Rana, Siddhesh Lad, J Suchith, Hardik Pandya, Jos Buttler, Tim Southee, Jithesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Deepak Punia.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (captain), Trent Boult, Chris Woakes, Rishi Dhawan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rovman Powell, R Sanjay Yadav, Ishank Jaggi, Darren Bravo, Sayan Ghosh, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Shakib Al Hasan, Chris Lynn, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Sheldon Jackson, Ankit Singh Rajput

Rising Pune Supergiant: Steve Smith (captain), MS Dhoni, R Ashwin, Mayank Agarwal, Baba Aparajith, Ankush Bains, Ankit Sharma, Rajat Bhatia, Deepak Chahar, Daniel Christian, Rahul Chahar, Ashok Dinda, Faf du Plessis, Lockie Ferduson. Usman Khawaja, Jaskaran Singh, Saurabh Kumar, Ben Stokes, Milind Tondon, Manoj Tiwary, Jaydev Unadkat, Adam Zampa.

Gujarat Lions IPL: Suresh Raina (captain), Akshdeep Nath, Shubham Agarwal, Basil Thampi, Dwayne Bravo, Chirag Suri, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Manpreet Gony, Ishan kishan, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati, Dinesh Karthik, Shibil Kaushik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar, Brendon McCullum, Munaf Patel, Pratham Singh, Jason Roy, Pradeep Sangwan, Jaydev Shah, Shelley Shaurya, Nathu Singh, Dwayne Smith, Tejas Baroka, Andrew Tye

Delhi Daredevils: Angelo Mathews (captain), Corey Anderson, Kagiso Rabada, Pat Cummins, Ankit Bawne, Aditya Tare, Murugan Ashwin, Navdeep Saini, Shashank Singh, JP Duminy, Mohammed Shami, Quinton de Kock, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jayant Yadav, Amit Mishra, Shreyas Iyer, Zaheer Khan, Sam Billings, Sanju Samson, Chris Morris, Carlos Brathwaite, Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant, CV Milind, Syed Ahmed, Pratyush Singh.

Kings XI Punjab: Glenn Maxwell (captain), Eoin Morgan, Rahul Tewatia, T Natarajan, Matt Henry, Varun Aaron, Martin Guptill, Darren Sammy, Rinku Singh, David Miller, Manan Vohra, Axar Patel, Gurkeerat Singh, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Shaun Marsh, Wriddhiman Saha, M Vijay, Nikhil Naik, Mohit Sharma, Marcus Stoinis, KC Cariappa, Armaan Jaffer, Pardeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, Hashim Amla.