IPL 2025 Schedule Highlights: KKR vs RCB to kickstart 18th edition on March 22, final on May 25 in Kolkata
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: BCCI has announced the fixtures for the 18th edition of the tournament, with KKR taking on RCB in the opening match on March 22.
IPL 2025 Schedule Highlights: The IPL schedule was announced today after a long wait from the auction, with all of the ten franchises and their die-hard fans learning what the schedule will look like for them in 2025 in the first year of the new cycle. Kolkata Knight Riders will open the 18th edition against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Eden Gardens, as BCCI continues to stick with the tradition of defending champions opening the tournament....Read More
Chennai Super Kings will host Mumbai Indians in a blockbuster clash in the opening weekend, while previous season's runners-up, Sunrisers Hyderabad, will face Rajasthan Royals in the afternoon game on March 23.
The season will end on May 25, with the final taking place at Eden Gardens. The schedule includes 12 double-headers, spanning 65 days across 13 venues. Dharamsala, Guwahati, and Visakhapatnam will each host a limited number of matches, with Dharamsala staging three games and the other two venues hosting two fixtures apiece. While Dharamsala will serve as home ground for Punjab Kings, Rajasthan Royals will play their select games in Guwahati, while Visakhapatnam hosts the first two games of Delhi Capitals.
The playoffs will be staged in Hyderabad and Kolkata after the league stage. Hyderabad will host Qualifier 1 and the Eliminator on May 20 and May 21, respectively, with the action shifting to Kolkata for Qualifier 2 on May 23.
The IPL will continue with its two-group structure after the 2022 expansion to a 10-team format.
The schedule announcement had fans paying key attention to important rivalry contests throughout the season.
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: That's all from us — see you on March 22!
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Plenty of cricket left internationally and domestically before the IPL begins in just about 5 weeks, but you can already feel the buzz in the air with the match-ups announced.
Thank you for following along with our blog of the IPL 2025 fixtures — back with the IPL live coverage when it all kicks off at the Eden Gardens on March 22!
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Any early predictions based on the fixtures?
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Always risky to try and make predictions about IPL seasons right after a mega-auction that shakes things up this much. Every team starts largely on an even keel, and as such it's difficult to call any sort of fixture list ‘difficult’ or ‘easy’.
In any case, we hope you have marked down the dates for when your favourite teams and favourite players are in town. Entertainment and good cricket are the only promises in any IPL season.
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Defending champions KKR's fixture list
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Fixture list for the defending champions:
March 22 – vs RCB – Kolkata
March 26 – vs RR – Guwahati
March 31 – vs MI – Mumbai
April 3 – vs SRH – Kolkata
April 6 – vs LSG – Kolkata
April 11 – vs CSK – Chennai
April 15 – vs PBKS – New Chandigarh
April 21 – vs GT – Kolkata
April 26 – vs PBKS – Kolkata
April 29 – vs DC – Delhi
May 6 – vs RR – Kolkata
May 7 – vs CSK – Kolkata
May 10 – vs SRH – Hyderabad
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: RCB fixture list in IPL 2025
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: RCB's fixture list
March 22 – vs KKR – Kolkata
March 28 – vs CSK – Chennai
April 2 – vs Gujarat Titans – Bengaluru
April 7 – vs MI – Mumbai
April 10 – vs Delhi Capitals – Bengaluru
April 13 – vs Rajasthan Royals – Jaipur
April 18 – vs Punjab Kings – Bengaluru
April 20 – vs Punjab Kings – Mullanpur
April 24 – vs Rajasthan Royals – Bengaluru
April 27 – vs Delhi Capitals – Delhi
May 3 – vs CSK – Bengaluru
May 9 – vs Lucknow Super Giants – Lucknow
May 13 – vs Sunrisers Hyderabad – Bengaluru
May 17 – vs KKR – Bengaluru
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: MI's fixtures in IPL 2025
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: MI's fictures:
March 23 – vs Chennai Super Kings – Chennai
March 29 – vs Gujarat Titans – Ahmedabad
March 31 – vs Kolkata Knight Riders – Mumbai
April 4 – vs Lucknow Super Giants – Lucknow
April 7 – vs Royal Challengers Bangalore – Mumbai
April 13 – vs Delhi Capitals – Delhi
April 17 – vs Sunrisers Hyderabad – Mumbai
April 20 – vs Chennai Super Kings – Mumbai
April 23 – vs Sunrisers Hyderabad – Hyderabad
April 27 – vs Lucknow Super Giants – Mumbai
May 1 – vs Rajasthan Royals – Jaipur
May 6 – vs Gujarat Titans – Mumbai
May 11 – vs Punjab Kings – Dharamsala
May 15 – vs Delhi Capitals – Mumbai
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: CSK fixture list
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: CSK fixture list
March 23 (Sunday) – vs Mumbai Indians (MI) in Chennai
March 28 (Friday) – vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in Chennai
March 30 (Sunday) – vs Rajasthan Royals (RR) in Guwahati
April 5 (Saturday) – vs Delhi Capitals (DC) in Chennai
April 8 (Tuesday) – vs Punjab Kings (PBKS) in Mullanpur
April 11 (Friday) – vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in Chennai
April 14 (Monday) – vs Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in Lucknow
April 20 (Sunday) – vs Mumbai Indians (MI) in Mumbai
April 25 (Friday) – vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in Chennai
April 30 (Wednesday) – vs Punjab Kings (PBKS) in Chennai
May 3 (Saturday) – vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in Bengaluru
May 7 (Wednesday) – vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in Kolkata
May 12 (Monday) – vs Rajasthan Royals (RR) in Chennai
May 18 (Sunday) – vs Gujarat Titans (GT) in Ahmedabad
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: RCB to play CSK twice, end season at home to KKR
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: A quick look at RCB's schedule as well. They start against KKR, but their next match will be a big rivalry match on 28 March in Chennai against CSK. RCB will host CSK this season as well, on 3 May.
A return to Delhi on the cards for Virat Kohli, with DC not having hosted RCB last year. DC vs RCB on 27 April in Delhi, with a raucous crowd maybe cheering more for their local hero than their local team.
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: First match for every team
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Here are the five opening matches, with all 10 teams featuring:
KKR vs RCB in Kolkata, 22/3
SRH vs RR in Hyderabad, 23/3
CSK vs MI in Chennai, 23/3
DC vs LSG in Vizag, 24/3
GT vs PBKS in AHmedabad, 25/3
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: CSK vs MI on opening weekend, Pant's LSG debut vs Delhi
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: The evening match in the double header on March 23 will be a mouth-watering matchup between Chennai and Mumbai Indians at the Chepauk, with the teams set to face off against each other once again on April 20.
Meanwhile, Rishabh Pant's first game at Lucknow Super Giants will be an away match vs Delhi Capitals — what could have been a return to loyal fans in Delhi, but instead will be played in Vizag.
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: KKR vs RCB confirmed as opener and final host
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: And the official announcement is here, Eden Gardens will host the opener and the final. Hyderabad to host two matches in the playoffs as well.
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: 10 minutes from the show
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Only 10 minutes left before the schedules are announced. Get your pencils ready to mark out the crucial matches in this season and keep an eye out for the Sunday doubleheaders. Non-stop entertainment on those particular days.
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Delhi to play 2 matches in Vizag
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Just like in 2024, Delhi will adopt Vizag as an alternative home for the start of the season, with the ACA-VDCA Stadium hosting their first two home games before returning to Delhi.
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Do you remember the last time KKR vs RCB opened the season?
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: The English coach certainly does. The last time these two historic teams faced off to start the season, it was also to start the IPL as a whole — and who can forget the explosion by Brendon McCullum as he announced to the world what they should expect the IPL to be.
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: 8th time KKR involved in opening
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: KKR are set to host the opening game of an IPL season for an eighth time in history. Meanwhile, it will be the sixth time for RCB. Only CSK have played in an opening game more often in the IPL (9 times).
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: IPL set to begin one week after WPL final
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: With the WPL's third season having commenced this week, the month-long tournament will have its finale on 15 March at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
Not a long break before fans of these franchises can re-continue their support, with the IPL beginning soon after.
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Hyderabad set to be other playoff host
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Alongside Kolkata, reports state that Hyderabad will likely receive the other two playoff contests, with the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium set to host playoff matches for the first time since 2017.
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Two franchises still await captaincy decisions
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: With the schedule set to be announced, the last few steps for the franchises will be the Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders announcing their captains for the upcoming season.
For KKR, Ajinkya Rahane and Venkatesh Iyer are considered to be the frontrunners, while for DC, it will likely be between Axar Patel and KL Rahul.
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Schedule announcement set to be streamed on JioHotstar
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: The newly-launched combined JioHotstar platform will act as the broadcast for the schedule announcement, ahead of tonight's WPL match on the same website. It will also be broadcast on Star Sports and Sports18.
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: Final also set to be at Eden Gardens
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: As per the same report, Eden Gardens will also host the final on May 25, following the tradition of defending champions getting hosting rights for the final.
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: March 22 likely opening day for IPL
IPL 2025 Schedule Live Updates: As per a Cricbuzz report, KKR will get the honour of hosting the first match of the tournament, facing RCB at the Eden Gardens on Saturday, March 22.
The Sunday is expected to be a double header, with finalists SRH playing an afternoon game in Hyderabad.
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