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There is now only one day left for IPL 2021 to start. The 14th edition starts on 9 April. In such a situation, all the teams are practicing vigorously to win the title. This year the special thing of the IPL is that no team will play a match on their home ground. Starting from 9 April, the IPL will be played till 30 May. Between this, a total of 56 matches will be played between 8 teams. Let have a look, where and how many IPL 2021 matches will be played.
IPL 2021 will start from April 9. The tournament will begin in Chennai, between the Royal Challengers Bangalore, captained by the Indian skipper Virat Kohli against defending and five-time champions Mumbai Indians. The match will start at 07:30 in the evening. The final match of the tournament will be played on May 30 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. A four-match Test series and a five-match T20 was played between India and England recently at this ground.
According to the BCCI, this time in the league stage each team will play at four venues. There will be a total of 56 matches in the league phase out of which Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bengaluru will host 10–10 while Ahmedabad and Delhi will host eight each. It said that a feature of this IPL will be that all matches will be played at neutral venues and no team will play at their home ground.All teams will play in four of the six places in the league.
In this season, all teams will have to finish 20 overs in 90 minutes. This means that the team will get 90 minutes for an innings, including five minutes of strategic time out. Also, there will be no soft signal rule this year. Apart from this, in view of the controversy in the previous season, this time the BCCI has also entrusted the responsibility of short run check to the third umpire.
Here is the full schedule, fixture and Venue Details of the Indian Premier League 2021 season:
