The 2024 Indian Premier League, also known as IPL 17 and branded as TATA IPL 2024 was the 17th edition of the Indian Premier League, a professional Twenty20 cricket league. The tournament featured ten teams competing in 74 matches from 22 March to 26 May across 13 venues.
The defending champions Chennai Super Kings were eliminated in the league stage. In the final, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets to win their third IPL title. Virat Kohli of Royal Challengers Bengaluru scored the most runs (741), while Harshal Patel of Punjab Kings took the most wickets (24). Sunil Narine of Kolkata was named as the most valuable player of the tournament.
Background The Indian Premier League is a professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league held in India, organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). It is held annually since the first edition in 2008. Chennai Super Kings were the defending champions, having won their fifth title in the previous season after beating Gujarat Titans in the final.
Format The format returned to the same as 2022, unlike 2023, with the group order being re-shuffled. Each team played twice against the teams in their group and the team in the same row in the other group, and once against the remaining four teams in the other group. After the group stage, the top four teams based on aggregate points qualified for the playoffs. In this stage, the top two teams competed with each other (in a match titled "Qualifier 1"), as did the remaining two teams (in a match titled "Eliminator"). While the winner of Qualifier 1 directly qualified for the final match, the losing team had another chance to qualify for the final match by competing against the winning team of the Eliminator match (in a match titled "Qualifier 2"). The winner of this subsequent Qualifier 2 match advanced to the final match.
Group A Group B Mumbai Indians Sunrisers HyderabadKolkata Knight Riders Royal Challengers Bengaluru Rajasthan Royals Punjab Kings Delhi Capitals Gujarat Titans Lucknow Super Giants Chennai Super Kings
Rule changes Bowlers could now bowl two bouncers per over, as trialled in India's domestic T20 tournament, the 2023–24 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
Schedule There was a possibility of the tournament being held abroad due to a possibility of inadequate security, as a result of a clash with Lok Sabha Election 2024. On 14 February 2024, the chairman of the Indian Premier League announced that the tournament would take place in India and that the schedule would be finalized after a discussion with the Indian government and other agencies, with the allocation of matches to states to depend on the election schedule to be released by the Election Commission of India. On 21 February, it was announced that the schedule would be announced in two halves as the dates of the elections has not been confirmed till then.
A part of the schedule of the season's fixtures was announced on 22 February 2024 which included the schedule for the first 17 days, consisting of 21 matches. The opening match of the tournament was to be played on 22 March at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai between defending champions Chennai Super Kings and the Royal Challengers Bengaluru. The remaining fixtures were announced on 25 March with the last group match to be played between Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders on 19 May at ACA Stadium, Guwahati. It was announced that both Qualifier 1 and Eliminator would be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad from 21 to 22 May, and that Qualifier 2 and final would be played in Chennai, with the venue hosting its third IPL final after 2011 and 2012.
Marketing The Tata Group renewed their contract as the title sponsors of the Indian Premier League for a tenure of 5 years (2024–28) for — the highest-ever sponsorship amount in the history of the league. The TATA Group previously held the title sponsorship rights for the IPL in 2022 and 2023. The advertising campaign for the 2024 IPL consisted of 18 sponsors and 250 advertisers including most notably — Dream11, Tata Motors, HDFC Bank, SBI, Thums Up, Pepsi, Parle Products, Google Pixel, Haier, and Vodafone.
Broadcasting
The media rights for 2023 to 2027 seasons were acquired by Viacom18 and Star Sports for , giving a valuation of for each IPL match. Star Sports broadcast the season on TV, while Viacom18 streamed it through JioCinema. Star Sports reported a 16.8 crore viewership on the opening day, highest-ever for the first day of any season. The 2024 IPL season had a total viewership of 546 million in Star Sports and 620 million in JioCinema, registering a 18% increase from the previous edition.
Teams The same 10 teams from the previous season returned, with few changes to the team personnel.
Group Team 2023 performance Head coach Captain A Delhi Capitals Ricky Ponting Rishabh Pant Kolkata Knight Riders Chandrakant Pandit Shreyas Iyer Lucknow Super Giants Justin Langer KL Rahul Mumbai Indians Mark Boucher Hardik Pandya Rajasthan Royals Kumar Sangakkara Sanju Samson B Chennai Super Kings Stephen Fleming Ruturaj Gaikwad Gujarat Titans Ashish Nehra Shubman Gill Punjab Kings Trevor Bayliss Shikhar Dhawan Royal Challengers Bengaluru Andy Flower Faf du Plessis Sunrisers Hyderabad Daniel Vettori Pat Cummins
Personnel changes
The ten franchises retained 173 players for the 2024 IPL season, and seven players were traded across teams before the auction. On 11 December 2023, the IPL governing council released a list of 333 players, including 214 Indian and 119 foreign players who were available for the auction. The auction was held outside India for the first time, at the Coca-Cola Arena, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 19 December 2023. 72 players were sold at the auction for a spend of including 30 overseas players. Mitchell Starc became the most expensive player in the history of IPL when he was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for , surpassing paid by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Pat Cummins earlier in the same auction, and paid by Punjab Kings for Sam Curran in the 2023 auction.
Venues The league stage was played at 13 stadiums across India. The opening match was played at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. Delhi Capitals played their first two home games at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium due to the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi being unavailable immediately after hosting the 2024 Women's Premier League. The ACA Cricket Stadium and the HPCA Cricket Stadium hosted two home matches each for Rajasthan Royals and Punjab Kings respectively. The first two matches of the playoffs were played in Ahmedabad with Chennai hosting the final leg of the playoffs including the final.
Ahmedabad Bengaluru Chennai Delhi Dharamshala Gujarat Titans Royal Challengers Bengaluru Chennai Super Kings Delhi Capitals Punjab Kings Narendra Modi Stadium M. Chinnaswamy Stadium M. A. Chidambaram Stadium Arun Jaitley Stadium HPCA Cricket Stadium Capacity: 132,000 Capacity: 40,000 Capacity: 39,000 Capacity: 35,200 Capacity: 21,200 Guwahati Hyderabad Rajasthan Royals Sunrisers Hyderabad ACA Cricket Stadium Rajiv Gandhi Stadium Capacity: 46,000 Capacity: 55,000 Jaipur Kolkata Rajasthan Royals Kolkata Knight Riders Sawai Mansingh Stadium Eden Gardens Capacity: 25,000 Capacity: 68,000 Lucknow Mullanpur Mumbai Visakhapatnam Lucknow Super Giants Punjab Kings Mumbai Indians Delhi Capitals BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium Wankhede Stadium ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium Capacity: 50,000 Capacity: 38,000 Capacity: 33,108 Capacity: 27,500
Opening ceremony
In January 2024, the BCCI invited bids for staging the opening ceremony. The following month, Kasi Viswanathan, the CEO of Chennai Super Kings stated that the opening ceremony would be held in Chennai by virtue of being the home of the defending champions. The opening ceremony took place on 22 March at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai and was followed by the opening match between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
Actors Tiger Shroff and Akshay Kumar promoted and performed for a song sequence from their film Bade Miyan Chote Miyan. Singer Sonu Nigam delivered a rendition of "Vande Mataram", followed by A. R. Rahman and Mohit Chauhan's joint-performance of "Maa Tujhe Salaam", and solo performances of "Jai Ho" and "Masakali" respectively. Singer Neeti Mohan also performed at the event.
League stage Points table
Match summary
Fixtures
Playoffs
Bracket
Sources: ESPNcricinfo
Qualifier 1
Eliminator
Qualifier 2
Final
Statistics and awards
+ Most runs Runs Player Team 741 Virat Kohli Royal Challengers Bengaluru 583 Ruturaj Gaikwad Chennai Super Kings 573Riyan Parag Rajasthan Royals 567 Travis Head Sunrisers Hyderabad 531 Sanju Samson Rajasthan Royals + Most wickets Wickets Player Team 24 Harshal Patel Punjab Kings 21 Varun Chakravarthy Kolkata Knight Riders 20 Jasprit Bumrah Mumbai Indians 19 T Natarajan Sunrisers Hyderabad 19 Harshit Rana Kolkata Knight Riders + Most valuable player Points Player Team 450.0 Sunil Narine Kolkata Knight Riders 315.5 Virat Kohli Royal Challengers Bengaluru 274.0Travis Head Sunrisers Hyderabad 273.5 Abhishek Sharma Sunrisers Hyderabad 259.0 Pat Cummins Sunrisers Hyderabad
End of season awards
+ End of season awards Award Prize Player Team Emerging player of the season Nitish Kumar Reddy Sunrisers Hyderabad Striker of the season , trophy and a car Jake Fraser-McGurk Delhi Capitals Fantasy player of the season and trophy Sunil Narine Kolkata Knight Riders Most sixes and trophy Abhishek Sharma Sunrisers Hyderabad Most fours and trophy Travis Head Sunrisers Hyderabad Catch of the season and trophy Ramandeep Singh Kolkata Knight Riders Team fairplay award Sunrisers Hyderabad Purple Cap (most wickets) Harshal Patel Punjab Kings Orange Cap (most runs) Virat Kohli Royal Challengers Bengaluru Most Valuable Player and trophy Sunil Narine Kolkata Knight Riders
See also
2024 Women's Premier League (cricket) 2024 Women's Premier League (cricket) final
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