IPL 2011 Cricket Schedule

The Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament for 2011 starts on the 8th April 2011. After the huge buzz of India winning the 2011 ICC World Cup, cricket fever is still high in India, so the timing of the IPL could not be any better.

The crowds are ready for a spectacular tournament with 74 matches taking place over 51 days. There are 10 teams participating in the tournament. The teams will be divided into two groups of five each, but there will be one combined points table. The teams will play the other teams in their group on a home-away basis. Each IPL team will play one league match each against four teams of other group and two more on home or away basis against the fifth team selected randomly.

The top two teams in the points table will meet in the first playoff (A). The winners of Game A will straightaway enter the final. The second playoff will be between the teams finishing third and fourth in the standings. The losers will be out of the championship and the winners will play the losers of Game A for a place in the final.

The schedule is a hectic one and no doubt it will have some impact on the players, especially, those that played in the ICC World Cup. Interestingly, the schedule was revised in view of the assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry.

Here are the 10 teams and their respective players in the 2011:

Mumbai Indians Sachin Tendulkar Harbhajan Singh Kieron Pollard Lasith Malinga Rohit Sharma Andrew Symonds Munaf Patel Davy Jacobs Clint McKay James Franklin Moises Henriques Aiden Blizzard	Kolkata Knight Raiders Gautam Gambhir Yusuf Pathan Jacques Kallis Manoj Tiwary Shakib al Hasan Brett Lee Eoin Morgan Brad Haddin Jaidev Unadkat Ryan ten Doeschate James Pattinson L Balaji	Chennai Super Kings MS Dhoni Suresh Raina M Vijay Albie Morkel R Ashwin S Badrinath Doug Bollinger Michael Hussey Sudeep Tyagi Dwayne Bravo Scott Styris Joginder Sharma Faf du Plessis Nuwan Kulasekara Ben Hilfenhaus Wriddhiman Saha Suraj Randiv George Bailey
Kings XI Punjab David Hussey Dinesh Karthik Adam Gilchrist Piyush Chawla Praveen Kumar Abhishek Nayar Stuart Broad Ryan Harris Dimitri Mascarenhas Nathan Rimmington Shaun Marsh	Rajasthan Royals Shane Warne Shane Watson Ross Taylor Johan Botha Rahul Dravid Shaun Tait Paul Collingwood Pankaj Singh	Delhi Daredevils Virender Sehwag Irfan Pathan David Warner Umesh Yadav Venugopal Rao Morne Morkel Ashok Dinda James Hopes Aaron Finch Naman Ojha Ajit Agarkar Matthew Wade Colin Ingram Andrew McDonald Roelof van der Merwe Travis Birt Robert Frylinck
Deccan Chargers Dale Steyn Cameron White Daniel Christian Kumar Sangakkara Kevin Pietersen Pragyan Ojha Ishant Sharma Amit Mishra Shikhar Dhawan JP Duminy Manpreet Gony Rusty Theron Michael Lumb Chris Lynn	Royal Challengers Bangalore Virat Kohli (retained) Saurabh Tiwary AB de Villiers Zaheer Khan Cheteswar Pujara Tilakratne Dilshan Dirk Nannes Daniel Vettori Abhimanyu Mithun Charl Langeveldt Mohammad Kaif Johan van der Wath Luke Pomersbach Rilee Rossouw Nuwan Pradeep Jonathan Vandiar	Kochi Bruisers Michael Klinger John Hastings Mahela Jayawardhane Muttiah Muralitharan Ravindra Jadeja Sreesanth RP Singh Brendon McCullum R Vinakumar Brad Hodge VVS Laxman Parthiv Patel Steven Smith Owais Shah Ramesh Powar Thisara Perera Steven O’Keefe

Here is the schedule of all the matches:

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