All You Need to Know About IPL 2026: Full Squads, Schedule, Venues, and Timings for Indian Premier League

The much-awaited IPL 2026 is just days ahead, and the fans can’t keep calm to watch their favourite stars in action during the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League, starting on March 28. The reigning champions, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), will set the ball rolling with their opening fixture against the 2016 champions, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.

A total of 70 group-stage matches will be played in the IPL 2026, including 12 double-header days. Notably, multiple players have been ruled out of the upcoming season, while some are still going through rehabilitation.

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Due to a late recovery of their usual skipper Pat Cummins, the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) have handed over the leadership duties to Ishan Kishan for the initial few games. On the other hand, Riyan Parag is set to lead the Rajasthan Royals (RR), after trading out their former captain Sanju Samson to CSK.

IPL 2026: Squads

Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), MS Dhoni, Sanju Samson, Urvil Patel, Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brevis, Anshul Kamboj, Nathan Ellis, Khaleel Ahmed, Noor Ahmad, Shivam Dube, Jamie Overton, Shreyas Gopal, Gurjapneet Singh, Mukesh Choudhary, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Akeal Hosein, Prashant Veer, Kartik Sharma, Matthew Short, Aman Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Matt Henry, Rahul Chahar, and Zakary Foulkes.

Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (C), KL Rahul, Karun Nair, Abishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, Mukesh Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav, Ajay Mandal, Tripurana Vijaya, Dushmantha Chameera, T. Natarajan, Nitish Rana, David Miller, Ben Duckett, Auqib Nabi, Pathum Nissanka, Lungi Ngidi, Sahil Parakh, Prithvi Shaw, and Kyle Jamieson.

Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (C), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rashid Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Glenn Phillips, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Gurnoor Brar, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Manav Suthar, Nishant Sindhu, Ashok Sharma, Jason Holder, Tom Banton, Prithviraj Yarra, and Luke Wood.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane (C), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Vaibhav Arora, Sunil Narine, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Manish Pandey, Anukul Roy, Rovman Powell, Umran Malik, Cameron Green, Finn Allen, Matheesha Pathirana, Tejasvi Singh Dahiya, Kartik Tyagi, Prashant Solanki, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, Blessing Muzarabani, Sarthak Ranjan, Daksh Kamra, Rachin Ravindra, and Akash Deep Singh.

Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant (C), Nicholas Pooran, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Ayush Badoni, Himmat Singh, Matthew Breetzke, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmad, Arshin Kulkarni, Avesh Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Akash Singh, Prince Yadav, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Mohammed Shami, Arjun Tendulkar, Wanindu Hasaranga, Anrich Nortje, Naman Tiwari, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Josh Inglis, and Mukul Choudhary.

Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya (C), Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma, Naman Dhir, Deepak Chahar, Ryan Rickelton, Will Jacks, Trent Boult, Mitchell Santner, Corbin Bosch, AM Ghazanfar, Ashwani Kumar, Raghu Sharma, Robin Minz, Raj Bawa, Sherfane Rutherford, Shardul Thakur, Mayank Markande, Quinton de Kock, Mohammed Izhar, Atharva Ankolekar, Mayank Rawat, and Danish Malewar.

Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (C), Arshdeep Singh, Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Shashank Singh, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Yash Thakur, Musheer Khan, Yuzvendra Chahal, Lockie Ferguson, Harpreet Brar, Suryansh Shedge, Mitchell Owen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Pyla Avinash, Harnoor Pannu, Vishnu Vinod, Cooper Connolly, Ben Dwarshuis, Pravin Dube, and Vishal Nishad.

Rajasthan Royals: Riyan Parag (C), Dhruv Jurel, Jofra Archer, Kwena Maphaka, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Nandre Burger, Sandeep Sharma, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Tushar Deshpande, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Yudhvir Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Sushant Mishra, Yash Raj Punia, Vignesh Puthur, Ravi Singh, Aman Rao, Brijesh Sharma, Adam Milne and Kuldeep Sen.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Rajat Patidar (C), Virat Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Jitesh Sharma, Phil Salt, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Suyash Sharma, Devdutt Padikkal, Jacob Bethell, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, Swapnil Singh, Abhinandan Singh, Rasikh Salam Dar, Venkatesh Iyer, Jacob Duffy, Satvik Deswal, Mangesh Yadav, Jordan Cox, Vicky Ostwal, Vihaan Malhotra, and Kanishk Chouhan.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Ishan Kishan (C), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, Smaran Ravichandran, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari, Shivang Kumar, Salil Arora, Sakib Hussain, Onkar Tarmale, Amit Kumar, Praful Hinge, Krains Fuletra, Liam Livingstone, Shivam Mavi, and Jack Edwards.

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