Vivo IPL 2018 is the eleventh season of IPL T20 series. This series earned an importance since it marks the return of two great teams Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals after two years. Along with these two teams, the Delhi Daredevils, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI Punjab, and Mumbai Indians are competing in this season.
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The teams will follow a double round-robin format which means all the teams will compete with the other twice- once in the home ground and once in other. Four teams with the highest number of points will be heading to the playoffs which then compete against each other in the Qualifier matches. The winning team in the qualifier 1 directly reaches finals whereas the losing team will have another chance to get to finals by playing against the winning team in qualifier 2.
The tournament is going to commence on 7th April 2018 with Chennai Super Kings playing against the Mumbai Indians in the Wankhede stadium of Mumbai and will continue till 27th of May on which day the tournament is going to end with the finals in the same venue. All the matches will commence at 08 00 PM IST on weekdays. Two matches will be played on Weekends (Saturday & Sunday) with one starting at 04 00 PM IST and another starting at 08 00 PM IST.
IPL 2018 teams:
Mumbai Indians Squad
Rohit Sharma (Captain), Kieron Pollard, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Mustafizur Rahman, Pat Cummins, JP Duminy, Ishan Kishan, Krunal Pandya, Ben Cutting, Evin Lewis, Surya Kumar Yadav, Jason Behrendroff, Rahul Chahar, Saurabh Tiwary, Pradeep Sangwan, MD Dinesan, MD Nidheesh, Sharad Lumba, Anukul Roy, Mayank Markande, Aditya Tare, Siddhesh Lad, Akila Dananjaya, Tajinder Dhillon.
Chennai Super Kings Squad
MS Dhoni (Captain), Suresh Raina, Dwayne Bravo, Shane Watson, Shardul Thakur, Murali Vijay, Faf Du Plesis, Ravindra Jadeja, Kedhar Jadhav, Ambait Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, Jagadeesan Narayan, Mitchell Santner, Lungisani Ngidi, KM Asif, Muhammed Imran Tahir, Mark Wood, Deepak Chahar, Kshitiz Sharma, Monu Singh, Kanishk Seth, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Sam Billings.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Squad
Kane Williamson(Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Shakib Al Hasan, Carlos Brathwaite, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Sandeep Sharma, Manish Pandey, Wriddhiman Saha, Yusuf Pathan, Chris Jordan, Rashid Khan Arman, Mohammad Nabi Eisakhil, Tanmay Agarwal, Sachin Baby, Ricky Bhui, Billy Stanlake, Mehdi Hasan, Bipul Sharma, T Natarajan, Shreevats Goswami, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Basil Thampi, Deepak Hooda, Sidharth Kaul.
Kings XI Punjab Squad
Ravichandran Ashwin (Captain), KL Rahul, Axar Patel, David Miller, Chris Gayle, Aaron Finch, Yuvraj Singh, Mohit Sharma, Mujeeb Zadran, Marcus Stonis, Andrew Tye, Karun Nye, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, Pradeep Sahu, Barinder Sran, Manzoor Das, Mayank Dagar, Akshdeep Nath, Manoj Tiwary, Mayank Agarwal, Ben Dwarshuis.
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad
Dinesh Karthik (Captain), Mitchell Starc, Chris Lynn, Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Johnson, Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, Nitish Rana, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Apoorv Wankhade, Ishank Jaggi, Javon Searless, Cameron Delport, Rinku Singh, R Vinay Kumar, Shubman Gill.
Delhi Daredevils Squad
Gautham Gambhir (Captain), Glenn Maxwell, Amit Mishra, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Kagiso Rabada, Vijay Shankar, Trent Boult, Shahbaz Nadeem, Chris Morris, Rahul Tewatia, Mohammed Shami, Daniel Christian, Colin Munro, Naman Ojha, Jason Roy, Manjot Kalra, Harshal Patel, Sayan Ghosh, Sandeep Lamichhane, Jayant Yadav, Abhishek Sharma, Avesh Khan, Gurkeerat Singh, Prithvi Shaw.
Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad
Virat Kohli (Captain), Brendon McCullum, AB de Villiers, Sarfraz Khan, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Chris Woakes, Washington Sundar, Quinton De Kock, Murugan Ashwin, Colin De Grandhomme, Parthiv Patel, Navdeep Saini, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Pavan Deshpande, Anirudha Joshi, Aniket Choudary, Kulwant Khejroliya, Pawan Negi, Tim Southee, Manan Vohra, Mandeep Singh, Moeen Ali.
Rajasthan Royals Squad
Ajinkya Rahane (Captain), Ben Stokes, Jayadev Unadkat, Jofra Archer, Sanju Samson, Dushmantha Chameera, Ben Laughlin, Rahul Tripathi, Gowtham Krishnappa, Zahir Khan Pakteen, Darcy Short, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jos Buttler, Stuart Binny, Mahipal Lomror, Jatin Saxena, Shreyas Gopal, Midhun S, Ankit Sharma, Prashant Chopra, Anureet Singh Kathuria, Aryaman Vikram Birla.
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