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| 2021 Indian Premier League | |
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| Chennai Super Kings Delhi Capitals Kolkata Knight Riders Mumbai Indians Punjab Kings Rajasthan Royals Royal Challengers Bangalore Sunrisers Hyderabad | |
The 2021 Indian Premier League, also known as IPL 14 or, for sponsorship reasons, Vivo IPL 2021,[1] is the fourteenth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 cricket league established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. Mumbai Indians are the two times defending champions, having won both the 2019 and the 2020 seasons.[2][3] Ahead of the tournament, Kings XI Punjab were renamed as the Punjab Kings.[4]
On 4 May 2021, the tournament was suspended indefinitely, after a rise in COVID-19 cases within the bio bubbles of respective teams.[5][6][7] At the time of the suspension, 31 of the scheduled 60 matches were still left to be played.[8] On 29 May 2021, the BCCI announced that the remaining matches of the tournament would be played in the United Arab Emirates in September and October 2021.[9][10]
Background
Although earlier reports suggested the addition of two more teams in the season,[11][12][13] the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in their 89th Template:Tooltip announced that there would not be any additional team for this season and the inclusion of two new teams should happen only in 2022.[14][15]
On 30 January 2021, the BCCI announced that they were confident to host the tournament in India. They also said that the UAE wasn't being considered as a backup venue.[16] On the day of the auction, the BCCI also confirmed that Vivo had returned as the title sponsor, after pulling out from the previous tournament.[1] As of late February, the BCCI were considering to host the tournament in a few shortlisted cities, which included Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Chennai, with Mumbai as an additional option.[17]
On 7 March 2021, the BCCI announced the full schedule for the season. Six venues, including all the five shortlisted venues and the additional option Mumbai were scheduled to host matches. To avoid home advantage, no team was scheduled to play at their home venue. The season was scheduled to start from 9 April, with the final taking place on 30 May at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The BCCI also confirmed that the tournament would begin behind closed doors, and a call on letting spectators in would be taken at a later stage.[18][19] After the sudden rise in COVID cases in India, Hyderabad was also added a backup venue, though no matches were played there.[20]
After the relocation to the UAE, BCCI were looking to allow at least 50% vaccinated audience in the stadium, if permitted by the local government.[21]
Personnel changes
Template:Main The released players were announced on 20 January 2021. Steve Smith, Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell were the prominent names among the released players. Piyush Chawla, the costliest Indian player at the 2020 auction, was also released.[22]
The players' auction was held on 18 February 2021 in Chennai.[23] Chris Morris was the most expensive player, purchased by the Rajasthan Royals for Template:INRConvert.[24] The most expensive Indian player sold was Krishnappa Gowtham purchased by the Chennai Super Kings for Template:INRConvert.[25]
On 10 March 2021, the Royal Challengers Bangalore replaced Josh Philippe with Finn Allen, after the former pulled out of the tournament due to personal reasons.[26] On 30 March 2021, the Delhi Capitals confirmed that their captain Shreyas Iyer had been ruled out of the tournament due to a shoulder injury. He was replaced by Aniruddha Joshi and Rishabh Pant was named the Delhi captain in his absence.[27] On 31 March 2021, Hyderabad's Mitchell Marsh pulled out of the tournament due to personal reasons; he was replaced by Jason Roy in the Sunrisers' squad.[28] A day later, Chennai's Josh Hazlewood opted out of the tournament citing the same reason.[29] Jason Behrendorff was named as his replacement.[30]
COVID-19 impact
Due to the worsing COVID-19 situation in India, several players withdrew from the tournament.[31][32] After the Chennai leg of the tournament, Ravichandran Ashwin left the Delhi Capitals bubble to "support [his] family" during the pandemic.[33] On 3 May 2021, the scheduled match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore was postponed after two Kolkata players tested positive for COVID-19.[34] On the same day three members of the Chennai Super Kings camp – including their bowling coach Lakshmipathy Balaji and CEO Kasi Viswanathan tested positive.[35] Later the same day, all of the Delhi Capitals team went into quarantine.[36] Similarly, Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad skipped their practice sessions ahead of their match on 4 May.[37] As a result, the BCCI looked at hosting the remaining fixtures of the tournament in Mumbai.[38]
However, on 4 May 2021, the Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals match, scheduled for 5 May 2021, was also postponed due to Chennai players being in quarantine.[39] Later the same day, Hyderabad's Wriddhiman Saha and Delhi's Amit Mishra tested positive for COVID-19.[40][41] On 4 May, the season was suspended indefinitely.[42] Up to 40 Australian players, support staff and commentators are scheduled to leave India and head to the Maldives as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.[43] On 5 May 2021, Michael Hussey, batting coach of Chennai, became the first overseas individual to test positive.[44] Later, Tim Seifert and Prasidh Krishna of the Knight Riders tested positive.[45][46]
On 6 May 2021, a group of English counties made an offer to host the remaining matches of the tournament in England in September 2021.[47] On 9 May 2021, Sourav Ganguly, president of the BCCI, ruled out the possibility of the tournament being completed in England or India, citing the difficulties around quarantine.[48] The BCCI were looking to play the remaining matches in September and October 2021, just before the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[49][50]
Venues
| Delhi | Ahmedabad | Mumbai | Chennai |
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| Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium | Narendra Modi Stadium | Wankhede Stadium | M. A. Chidambaram Stadium |
| Capacity: 41,000 | Capacity: 132,000 | Capacity: 33,000 | Capacity: 39,000 |
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In addition, the following two venues were also scheduled to host matches, but their matches were relocated.[51]
| Bangalore | Kolkata |
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| M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | Eden Gardens |
| Capacity: 35,000 | Capacity: 68,000 |
| File:Eden Gardens under floodlights during a match.jpg |
Teams and standings
Points table
Template:2021 Indian Premier League Points table
Match summary
Template:2021 Indian Premier League group stage
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League stage
Template:Hatnote The schedule for the league stages was published on the official IPL website on 7 March.[52] The matches from 4 May 2021 were suspended due to the pandemic.
Matches
Matches played
Suspended matches
Playoffs
Template:Hatnote The playoffs have been suspended indefinitely due to COVID-19 pandemic. Template:IPL Playoffs
Preliminary
- Qualifier 1
- Eliminator
- Qualifier 2
Final
Statistics
Most runs
| Player | Team | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Runs | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | |||
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| Template:Flagicon Shikhar Dhawan | Delhi Capitals | 8 | 8 | Template:Nts | 54.28 | 134.27 | Template:Nts | 0 | 3 | 43 | 8 | |||
| Template:Flagicon KL Rahul | Punjab Kings | 7 | 7 | Template:Nts | 66.20 | 136.21 | Template:Nts | 0 | 4 | 27 | 16 | |||
| Template:Flagicon Faf du Plessis | Chennai Super Kings | 7 | 7 | Template:Nts | 64.00 | 145.45 | Template:Nts | 0 | 4 | 29 | 13 | |||
| Template:Flagicon Prithvi Shaw | Delhi Capitals | 8 | 8 | Template:Nts | 38.50 | 166.48 | Template:Nts | 0 | 3 | 37 | 12 | |||
| Template:Flagicon Sanju Samson | Rajasthan Royals | 7 | 7 | Template:Nts | 46.16 | 145.78 | Template:Nts | 1 | 0 | 26 | 11 | |||
| Source: IPLT20.com | ||||||||||||||
Most wickets
| Player | Team | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | ||||
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| Template:Flagicon Harshal Patel | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 7 | 7 | 17 | Template:Ntsh 5/27 | 14.70 | 9.03 | 9.76 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Template:Flagicon Avesh Khan | Delhi Capitals | 8 | 8 | 14 | Template:Ntsh3/32 | 16.50 | 7.7 | 12.85 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Template:Flagicon Chris Morris | Rajasthan Royals | 7 | 7 | 14 | Template:Ntsh4/23 | 16.00 | 8.61 | 11.14 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Template:Flagicon Rahul Chahar | Mumbai Indians | 7 | 7 | 11 | Template:Ntsh4/27 | 18.36 | 7.21 | 15.27 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Template:Flagicon Rashid Khan | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 7 | 7 | 10 | Template:Ntsh3/36 | 17.20 | 6.14 | 16.80 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Source: IPLT20.com | ||||||||||||||
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 IPL 2021 Auction: [VIVO Remains The Title Sponsor As BCCI Releases The Player Auction List]. Yahoo! Cricket. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ↑ Mumbai trump Super Kings to win record fourth IPL title. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ↑ Trent Boult and Rohit Sharma help dominant Mumbai Indians coast to fifth IPL title. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ↑ Kings XI Punjab to be renamed Punjab Kings. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ↑ IPL 2021 suspended as Covid count increases. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ↑ IPL 2021 suspended indefinitely; Saha, Mishra test positive. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ↑ VIVO IPL 2021 Postponed. iplt20.com. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ↑ Indian Premier League 2021: English counties offer to host postponed games. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
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- ↑ Await ten team IPL in 2021. The Island Online. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ↑ Time too short for 10-team IPL 2021, addition should happen in 2022: BCCI official. Times Now News. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ↑ IPL 2021 New Team : Guwahati wants IPL team, BCCI official says ‘not possible at this stage’. InsideSport. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ↑ BCCI approves 10-team IPL from 2022 at AGM in Ahmedabad. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ↑ BCCI approves 10 teams in IPL 2022; backs cricket's inclusion in 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Times Now News. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
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- ↑ Kolkata, Ahmedabad among 5 centres shortlisted for IPL 2021. Cricbuzz. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
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- ↑ IPL 2021: Who will be retained, and who will be released?. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
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- ↑ R Ashwin leaves IPL 2021 to 'support family' amid the pandemic. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
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- ↑ Covid-19 effect – Capitals players isolate, Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers skip practice. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ↑ Amid Covid-19 concern, IPL may shift entirely to Mumbai. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
- ↑ Chennai Super Kings' May 5 game against Rajasthan Royals postponed. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ↑ Sunrisers Hyderabad's Wriddhiman Saha tests positive for Covid-19. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ↑ IPL 2021: COVID hits SRH and DC camps – Wriddhiman Saha and Amit Mishra test positive(4 May 2021). Retrieved 4 May 2021.
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- ↑ Chennai Super Kings batting coach Michael Hussey tests positive for Covid-19. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ↑ KKR's Tim Seifert tests positive for Covid-19, to be treated in Chennai before flying home. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ↑ Prasidh Krishna tests positive; England tour in jeopardy. Cricbuzz. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
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External links
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