The month of April has finally arrived. In India, April is known as the month of entertainment becuase of the IPL. IPL (Indian Premier League) started way back in 2008 and now it is standing in its 11th year. This year IPL will kick start from 7th April with the match between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians.

This year Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals are making a comeback after serving a ban of 2 years for match fixing scandals.

History of IPL :

TEAM LISTS :

• CHENNAI SUPER KINGS

Squad :

• MS Dhoni (captain)
• Suresh Raina
• Ravindra Jadeja
• Faf du Plessis
• Harbhajan Singh
• Dwayne Bravo
• Shane Watson
• Kedar Jadhav
• Ambati Rayudu
• Imran Tahir
• Karn Sharma
• Shardul Thakur
• N Jagdeesan
• Mitchell Santner (unavailable due to injury)
• Deepak Chahar
• KM Asif
• Lungisani Ngidi
• Kanishk Seth
• Dhruv Shorey
• Murali Vijay
• Sam Billings
• Mark Wood
• Kshitiz Sharma
• Monu Kumar
• Chaitanya Bishnoi

• DELHI DAREDEVILS

Squad :

• Gautham Gambhir (captain)
• Shreyas Iyer
• Rishabh Pant
• Chris Morris
• Glenn Maxwell
• Jason Roy
• Colin Munro
• Mohammed Shami
• Kagiso Rabada
• Amit Mishra
• Prithvi Shaw
• Rahul Tewatia
• Vijay Shankar
• Harshal Patel
• Avesh Khan
• Shahbaz Nadeem
• Daniel Christian
• Jayant Yadav
• Gurkeerat Singh Mann
• Trent Boult
• Manjot Kalra
• Abhishek Sharma
• Sandeep Lamichhane
• Naman Ojha
• Sayan Ghosh

• KINGS XI PUNJAB

Squad :

• Ravichandran Ashwin (captain)
• Axar Patel
• Yuvraj Singh
• Karun Nair
• KL Rahul
• David Miller
• Aaron Finch
• Marcus Stoinis
• Mayank Agarwal
• Ankit Rajpoot
• Manoj Tiwary
• Mohit Sharma
• Mujeeb Zadran
• Barinder Sran
• Andrew Tye
• Akshdeep Nath
• Ben Dwarshuis
• Pardeep Sahu
• Mayank Dagar
• Chris Gayle
• Manzoor Dar

• KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS

Squad :

• Dinesh Karthik (captain)
• Andre Russell
• Sunil Narine
• Mitch Starc (ruled out due to stress fracture)
• Chris Lynn
• Robin Uthappa
• Piyush Chawla
• Kuldeep Yadav
• Shubman Gill
• Ishank Jaggi
• Kamlesh Nagarkoti
• Nitish Rana
• Vinay Kumar
• Apoorv Wankhade
• Rinku Singh
• Shivam Mavi
• Cameron Delport
• Mitchell Johnson
• Javon Searles

• MUMBAI INDIANS

Squad :

• Rohit Sharma (captain)
• Hardik Pandya
• Jasprit Bumrah
• Keiron Pollard
• Mustafizur Rahman
• Pat Cummins
• Suryakumar Yadav
• Krunal Pandya
• Ishan Kishan
• Rahul Chahar
• Evin Lewis
• Saurabh Tiwary
• Ben Cutting
• Pradeep Sangwan
• JP Duminy
• Mitchell McClenaghan (replaced injured Jason Behrendorff)
• T N Dhillon
• Sharad Lumba
• Aditya Tare
• Mayank Markande
• Akila Dananjaya
• Anukul Sudhakar Roy
• Mohsin Khan
• MD Nidheesh

• RAJASTHAN ROYALS

Squad :

• Steve Smith (banned)
• Ajinkya Rahane (captain)
• Ben Stokes
• Stuart Binny
• Sanju Samson
• Jos Buttler
• Rahul Tripathi
• D’Arcy Short
• Jofra Archer
• Krishnappa Gowtham
• Dhawal Kulkarni
• Jaydev Unadkat
• Ankit Sharma
• Anureet Singh
• Zahir Khan
• Shreyas Gopal
• S Midhun
• Prashant Chopra
• Ben Laughlin
• Mahipal Lomror
• Aryaman Birla
• Jatin Saxena
• Dushmantha Chameera

• ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE

Squad :

• Virat Kohli (captain)
• AB de Villiers
• Sarfaraz Khan
• Brendon McCullum
• Chris Woakes
• Colin de Grandhomme
• Moeen Ali
• Quinton de Kock
• Umesh Yadav
• Yuzvendra Chahal
• Manan Vohra
• Kulwant Khejroliya
• Aniket Choudhary
• Navdeep Saini
• Murugan Ashwin
• Mandeep Singh
• Washington Sundar
• Pawan Negi
• Mohammed Siraj
• Corey Anderson (replaced injured Nathan Coulter-Nile)
• Anirudha Joshi
• Parthiv Patel
• Tim Southee
• Pavan Deshpande

• SUNRISERS HYDERABAD

Squad :

• David Warner (banned)
• Kane Williamson (captain)
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar
• Shikhar Dhawan
• Shakib Al Hasan
• Manish Pandey
• Carlos Brathwaite
• Yusuf Pathan
• Wriddhiman Saha
• Rashid Khan
• Ricky Bhui
• Deepak Hooda
• T Natarajan
• Siddarth Kaul
• Khaleel Ahmed
• Mohammad Nabi
• Sandeep Sharma
• Sachin Baby
• Chris Jordan
• Billy Stanlake
• Tanmay Agarwal
• Shreevats Goswami
• Bipul Sharma
• Mehdi Hasan

IPL 2018 SCHEDULE :