IPL 2021: All You Need To Know About The First Clash Of World’s Biggest Franchise Tournament!!

Hold your breaths cricket fans, because what dada Sourav Ganguly, BCCI Chief said will become true in April. Yes, you heard that right 14th season of the Indian Premier League will take place in India this year. The first match will be played between the Mumbai Indians and RCB.

Here we will provide every information of the first match:

First Clash:

The most successful team of IPL and last year winner Mumbai Indians will take hands with Royal Challengers Bangalore. According to the scheduled, the most likely date which has been selected for the opening match of the IPL is 09th of April 2021

The whole schedule of the tournaments has been set and the tournament will fuel up on the 09th of April and the final of the most awaited league in the world will likely happen on the 30th of June. Yeah, the duration of the tournament will be long as the Covid-19 protocols will be followed.

Venue and Timing of the opening clash:

Match will be at M.A.Chidambaram Chepauk Stadium Chennai. As per the Indian Standard time, the match will start at 7 hours 30 minutes IST in the evening.

After the successful auction, both the teams are looking ready for the 14th season of the Indian Premier League. Mumbai under the captaincy of local boy Rohit Sharma on one hand will play to protect the trophy on the other hand RCB under the captaincy of Virat Kohli will work hard to lift the trophy for the first time.

It is great news for the fans that the tournament will be hosted in India and fans will be allowed to enter the stadiums amid Covid-19 protocols as last season of IPL was played in Dubai due to Corona Virus under bio-bubble protection without fans.

Players likely to be present in the squads for the inauguration of the 14th edition of IPL

Mumbai Indians

The team which has claimed the IPL trophy 5 times is the one that will be locking horns with Delhi Capitals. Mumbai Indians took some strategic steps in selecting the players in the auction and bought a total of 7 players for Rs. 11.70 Cr which includes 3 domestic and 4 foreign players. Since the release of the cricket great Lasith Malinga had left Mumbai with an unfillable void, but to stand and dominate the competition the team bought Nathan Coulter-Nile and Adam Milne.

The following players will be seen in the team Mumbai Indians in the upcoming IPL:-

Rohit Sharma (Captain of MI), Aditya Tare (wicketkeeper), Kieron Pollard, Surya Kumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, James Neesham, Mohsin Khan, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jasprit Bumrah, Jayant Yadav, Trent Boult,           Piyush Chawla, Marco Jansen, Yudhvir Charak, Saurabh Tiwary, Anmolpreet Singh, Rahul Chahar, Krunal Pandya, Adam Milne, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Arjun Tendulkar, Anukul Roy, Chris Lynn, Ishan Kishan, Quinton De Kock.

Royal Challengers Bangalore

RCB has not won any of the IPL matches till now but to change the history, the team looks forward to leaving no stone unturned in winning the IPL.

RCB’ Team will consist of these below-mentioned players:-

Virat Kohli (c), Josh Philippe (wk), Devdutt Padikkal, AB de Villiers (wk), Pavan Deshpande, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Daniel Sams, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Kane Richardson, Harshal Patel, Glenn Maxwell, Sachin Baby, Daniel Christian, Suyash Prabhudessai, K.S. Bharat, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Kyle Jamieson

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