On what date will IPL 2026 start and when will it be final? Information about this is coming to light. This is the 19th edition of the tournament, for which all the teams have released their retention lists. According to viral reports on social media, IPL will start 7 days after the end of T20 World Cup 2026.

On which date will IPL 2026 start?

T20 World Cup 2026 will be held from 7 February to 8 March. This tournament will be hosted by India and Sri Lanka. According to viral reports on social media, the first match of IPL 2026 will be played 7 days after the title match of T20 World Cup, i.e. on March 15.

When will the final of IPL 2026 take place?

It is being claimed in these reports that the window of IPL 2026 is from March 15 to May 31. According to which the final match of IPL 2026 will be held on 31 May.

Let us tell you that the event of the last edition started on March 22, but due to India vs Pakistan tension, the event had to be stopped for about a week, due to which the date of the final had to be extended. The final took place on 3 June, in which RCB won their first IPL title.

Auction will be held on 16th December

The auction for Indian Premier League season 19 will take place on December 16, 2025. Each team has released its retention list, now the teams will bet on players in the auction to fill the remaining slots.

Retention list of all 10 IPL teams

Chennai Super Kings Retention List: Rituraj Gaikwad, MS Dhoni, Dewald Brewis, Ayush Mhatre, Urvil Patel, Anshul Kamboj, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Shivam Dubey, Khalil Ahmed, Noor Ahmed, Mukesh Chaudhary, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal, Gurjapaneet Singh, Sanju Samson.

Delhi Capitals Retention List: KL Rahul, Karun Nair, Abhishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraraj Nigam, Ajay Mandal, Tripuran Vijay, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, Nitish Rana.

Gujarat Titans Retention List: Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Nishant Sindhu, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav.

Kolkata Knight Riders Retention List: Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Vaibhav Arora, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakraborty, Harshit Rana, Umran Malik.

Lucknow Supergiants Retention List: Rishabh Pant, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Himmat Singh, Matthew Bretzke, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, M. Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh, Arjun Tendulkar, Mohammed Shami.

Mumbai Indians Retention List: Rohit Sharma, Surya Kumar Yadav, Robin Minz, Ryan Rickelton, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Naman Dheer, Mitchell Santner, Will Jack, Corbin Bosch, Raj Bawa, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Deepak Chahar, Ashwani Kumar, Raghu Sharma, Allah Ghazanfar, Mayank Markande, Shardul Thakur, Sherfane Rutherford.

Punjab Kings Retention List: Shreyas Iyer, Nehal Wadhera, Vishnu Vinod, Harnoor Pannu, Paila Avinash, Prabhsimran Singh, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Harpreet Brar, Marco Johnson, Azmatullah Omarzai, Priyansh Arya, Mushir Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Mitch Owen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Visak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Xavier Bartlett, Lockie Ferguson.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Retention List: Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli, Tim David, Devdutt Padikkal, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Jacob Bethel, Romario Shepherd, Swapnil Singh, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rasikh Salam, Yash Dayal, Suyyash Sharma, Nuwan Thushara, Abhinandan Singh.

Rajasthan Royals Retention List: Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Luan-Dre Pretorius, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Ryan Parag, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Joffra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Fazalhaq Farooqui, Quena Mafaka, Nandre Berger, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Donovan Ferreira.

Sunrisers Hyderabad Retention List: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, R Smrana, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari.

IPL 2025 Points Table: All four teams going to the playoffs of IPL 2025 have been revealed, named Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mumbai Indians, Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings. Now the fight is to confirm its place in the top-2, because the path of the final will be easier for the teams living in the top-2. Talking about RCB, especially here, it has 2 matches left, if she wins both of her remaining matches, then the team of Bengaluru will do wonders.

RCB will do wonders

Royal Challengers Bangalore has just scored 17 points after 8 wins in 12 matches and is second in the points table. He is yet to play one match against Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants. If the RCB wins both the remaining matches, then the chances of staying in table toppers or top-2 will be strong for it. Even if Bengaluru wins both matches, he will have to depend on the result of other matches to stay in the top-2. If Bangalore loses both the next two matches, then she will not be able to confirm the place in the top-2.

The IPL schedule has been such that it has been easier for the teams living in the top-2 to the finals than the rest of the teams. Actually, two teams living in the top-2 of the points table come face to face in qualifier 1. The winner of this match reaches the finals directly. At the same time, the teams who finished third and fourth have to face the first eliminator, after that she can reach the finals only by crossing the challenge of the losing team in Qualifier 1.

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IPL 2025 new schedule announced: The new schedule of IPL 2025 has been released. 6 grounds have been selected for the remaining matches of the tournament. According to the new schedule, there are 17 matches left and the new date of the final match (IPL 2025 Final Date) has been revealed. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced that the rest of the matches will start from 17 May, while the final will be played on 3 June.

After consulting the government, security agencies and all the partners, the BCCI has decided to resume the tournament from 17 May.

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IPL 2025 in Between Operation Sindoor: The Board of Control for Cricket in India took a major decision on Friday, May 9, in which the Indian Premian League was suspended for a week. The BCCI has taken a decision due to heavy tension between India and Pakistan. But now when the IPL starts again after a week, the remaining matches may change. The BCCI can now organize an IPL tournament only in four cities of India.

4 cities of India, where IPL will be

According to the Times of India report, the BCCI is monitoring the situation for the remaining matches of the IPL. If the IPL starts after a week, the Cricket Board can have the remaining matches in Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. But the BCCI is going to take a decision only after seeing the ongoing tension between India and Pakistan.

When was the match canceled?

The match was going on between Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings at Dharamshala Stadium on the night of 8 May. In this match, Punjab team came to bat first and only got 10.1 overs. During that time, there were failed attacks on India from Pakistan, in view of which the BCCE decided to cancel the match there keeping in mind the safety of all. After this, all the people present in the stadium were taken out safely.

IPL players returned to Delhi

After the cancellation of the match between Delhi-Punjab, all the players of the IPL supporting staff and crew members were brought to New Delhi by special train. On the night of May 9, all the members associated with the IPL have returned safely from the Vande Bharat train. The BCCI says that the safety of the players is the most important for us.

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