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2024 Indian Premier League

The 2024 Indian Premier League (also known as IPL 17 and branded as TATA IPL 2024) is the 17th edition of the Indian Premier League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league in India, organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. The tournament features ten teams competing 74 matches from 22 March to 26 May 2024. It is being held across 13 cities in India with Chennai hosting the opening ceremony and the final.

Chennai Super Kings are the defending champions, having won their fifth title during the previous season beating Gujarat Titans, becoming the joint-most successful franchise in the history of the tournament along with Mumbai Indians.

Format

The format remained the same as last season with teams divided into two groups (A and B) of five each. Each team will play once against four teams in their own group and twice against teams from the other group. All teams will play a total of 14 games, seven home and seven away. After the group stage, the top four teams based on aggregate points qualified for the playoffs. In this stage, the top two teams compete with each other (in a match titled "Qualifier 1"), as do the remaining two teams (in a match titled "Eliminator"). While the winner of Qualifier 1 directly qualified for the final match, the losing team has another chance to qualify for the final match by competing against the winning team of the Eliminator match (in a match titled "Qualifier 2"). The winner of this subsequent Qualifier 2 match will move on to the final match. The team that wins the final match will be crowned the Indian Premier League winners.

Schedule

On 14 February 2024, the chairman of the Indian Premier League, announced that the tournament would take place in India and that the schedule will be finalized post discussion with the Indian government and other agencies. It was also mentioned that the allocation of matches to states will depend on the election schedule for the Lok Sabha Election 2024 to be released by the Election Commission of India. On 21 February, it was announced that the schedule will be announced in two halves as the dates of the elections has not been confirmed till then.

A part of the schedule of the season's fixtures was announced on 22 February 2024 which included the schedule for the first 17 days, consisting of 21 matches. The opening match of the tournament was to be played on 22 March at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai between defending champions Chennai Super Kings and the Royal Challengers Bengaluru. The remaining fixtures were announced on 25 March with the last group match to be played between Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders on 19 May at ACA Stadium, Guwahati. It was announced that both Qualifier 1 and Eliminator would be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad from 21 to 22 May, and that Qualifier 2 and final would be played in Chennai, with the venue hosting its third IPL final after 2011 and 2012.

Rule changes

Bowlers could now bowl two bouncers per over, as trialed in India's domestic T20 tournament, the 2023–24 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Teams

The same 10 teams from the previous season returned with few changes to the team personnel.

Personnel changes

The ten franchises retained 173 players for the 2024 IPL season and seven players were traded across teams before the auction. On 11 December 2023, the IPL Governing council released a list of 333 players, including 214 Indian and 119 foreign players who were available for the auction. The auction was held outside India for the first time, at Coca-Cola Arena, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 19 December 2023. 72 players were sold at the auction for a spend of ₹230 crore (US$29 million) including 30 overseas players. Mitchell Starc became the most expensive player in the history of IPL when he was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹24.75 crore (US$3.1 million) surpassing ₹20.50 crore (US$2.6 million) paid by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Pat Cummins earlier in the same auction and ₹18.50 crore (US$2.3 million) paid by Punjab Kings for Sam Curran in the 2023 auction.

Support staff changes

Captaincy changes

Venues

The league stage is being played at 13 stadiums across India. The opening match was played at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. Delhi Capitals played their first two home games at ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, due to the Arun Jaitley Stadium at Delhi being unavailable immediately after hosting the 2024 Women's Premier League. The ACA Cricket Stadium and the HPCA Cricket Stadium will host two home matches each of Rajasthan Royals and Punjab Kings respectively. The first two matches of the playoffs will be played at Ahmedabad with Chennai hosting the final leg of the playoffs including the final.

Opening ceremony

In January 2024, the BCCI invited bids for staging the opening ceremony. The following month, Kasi Viswanathan, the CEO of the Chennai Super Kings told that the opening ceremony would be held in Chennai by virtue of the venue being the home of the defending champions.

The opening ceremony took place on 22 March at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Actors Tiger Shroff and Akshay Kumar promoted and performed for a song sequence from their film Bade Miyan Chote Miyan. Singer Sonu Nigam delivered a rendition of "Vande Mataram", while A. R. Rahman and Mohit Chauhan joined for "Maa Tujhe Salaam", while the former went solo for "Jai Ho". Chauhan also sang his hit song "Masakali". Singer Neeti Mohan also performed at the event.

League stage

Points table

Match summary

Fixtures

Playoffs

The Indian Premier League playoffs will be held from 21 to 26 May 2023. The Qualifier 1 and Eliminator matches will be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. The Qualifier 2 and the final will be played at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.

Bracket

Qualifier 1

Eliminator

Qualifier 2

Final

Marketing

Title sponsorship

The Tata Group renewed their contract as the title sponsors of the Indian Premier League for a tenure of 5 years (2024–28) for ₹2,500 crore (US$310 million) — the highest-ever sponsorship amount in the history of the league. The TATA Group previously held the title sponsorship rights for the IPL in 2022 and 2023.