IPL 2025 start date: When is the 18th IPL season starting?

According to the reports on ESPN Cricinfo, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to conduct the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) from March 14 with the final scheduled to take place on May 25.

Furthermore, IPL 2026 will be played between March 15 and May 31 whereas IPL 2017 will take place between March 14 and May 30. Though IPL 2025 will have 74 matches, IPL 2026 and 2027 seasons are expected to have 84 and 94 matches respectively. 

It’s worth noting that IPL 2025 will clash with PSL 2025, which is usually held in the February and March window. With Pakistan having the hosting rights for the ICCChampions Trophy 2025, PCB has decided to postpone PSL 2025.

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will enter the IPL 18th edition as the reigning champions after defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the IPL 2024 final. 

A look at IPL 2025 squads

Chennai Super Kings

Ruturaj Gaikwad, Matheesha Pathirana, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni, Noor Ahmed, Ravichandran Ashwin, Devon Conway, Gurjapneet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Deepak Hooda, Jamie Overton, Vijay Shankar, Vansh Bedi, Andre Siddarth, Shreyas Gopal, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Mukesh Choudhary, Shaik Rasheed, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Rachin Ravindra, Anshul Kamboj, Rahul Tripathi, Sam Curran

Delhi Capitals

Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, Harry Brook, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Faf Du Plessis, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, Dushmantha Chameera, Vipraj Nigam, Karun Nair, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurana Vijay, Manvanth Kumar L, Ajay Mandal, Darshan Nalkande, Abishek Porel, KL Rahul, Mitchell Starc, T. Natarajan, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Mukesh Kumar

Gujarat Titans

Rashid Khan, Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan, Jos Buttler, Mohammad Siraj, Kagiso Rabada, Mahipal Lomror, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Mohd. Arshad Khan, Karim Janat, Jayant Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Kumar Kushagra, Kulwant Khejroliya, Manav Suthar, Anuj Rawat, Nishant Sindhu, Prasidh Krishna, Washington Sundar, Sherfane Rutherford, Gerald Coetzee, Glenn Phillips, R. Sai Kishore

Kolkata Knight Riders

Rinku Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Anrich Nortje, Ajinkya Rahane, Rovman Powell, Umran Mailk, Manish Pandey, Anukul Roy, Luvnith Sisodia, Mayank Markande, Quinton De Kock, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Spencer Johnson, Moeen Ali, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Vaibhav Arora

Lucknow Super Giants

Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni, Rishabh Pant, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep, M. Siddharth, Arshin Kulkarni, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh, Digvesh Singh, Himmat Singh, Aryan Juyal, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahamad, Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Shamar Joseph

Mumbai Indians

Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma, Trent Boult, Deepak Chahar, Will Jacks, Naman Dhir, Vignesh Puthur, Arjun Tendulkar, Bevan John Jacobs, Venkata Satyanarayana Penmetsa, Raj Angad Bawa, Shrijith Krishnan, Ashwani Kumar, Allah Ghazanfar, Mitchell Santner, Ryan Rickelton, Lizaad Williams, Reece Topley, Robin Minz, Karn Sharma

Punjab Kings

Shashank Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Nehal Wadhera, Glenn Maxwell, Priyansh Arya, Josh Inglis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Lockie Ferguson, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Harpreet Brar, Aaron Hardie, Vishnu Vinod, Xavier Bartlett, Kuldeep Sen, Pravin Dubey, Pyla Avinash, Suryansh Shedge, Musheer Khan, Harnoor Pannu.

Rajasthan Royals

Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Sandeep Sharma, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shubham Dubey, Yudhvir Charak, Ashok Sharma, Kunal Rathore, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, Maheesh Theekshana, Nitish Rana, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kwena Maphaka, Akash Madhwal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Liam Livingstone, Rasikh Dar, Romario Shepherd, Lungi Ngidi, Swapnil Singh, Mohit Rathee, Abhinandan Singh, Swastik Chhikara, Manoj Bhandage, Krunal Pandya, Tim David, Jacob Bethell, Suyash Sharma, Devdutt Padikkal, Nuwan Thushara

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Heinrich Klaasen, Pat Cummins, Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ishan Kishan, Mohammad Shami, Jaydev Unadkat, Kamindu Mendis, Zeeshan Ansari, Sachin Baby, Aniket Verma, Atharva Taide, Harshal Patel, Abhinav Manohar, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa, Simarjeet Singh, Eshan Malinga, Brydon Carse.

In conclusion, the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is set to start on March 14, 2025, with the final scheduled for May 25, 2025. The IPL 2025 season will feature 74 matches, and the following seasons are expected to have even more matches. The tournament will clash with the PSL 2025, which has been postponed due to Pakistan hosting the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. The Kolkata Knight Riders will enter the season as the reigning champions.

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