Indian Premier League 2019: BCCI Released Initial Schedule Of First Two Weeks

On Tuesday, February 19, the BCCI has announced the first two weeks’ schedule of the Indian Premier League as it looks forward to a declaration of general election dates. The IPL 2019 is going to commence its tournament with a smash hit beginning where MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings will compete with Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore at Chepauk on March 23.

In the meantime, the BCCI has only released the first two weeks’ schedule on Tuesday for the T20 league, keeping the focus on this year’s general elections and concentrating on having a home and away matches as much as possible. Six franchises will play two home and two away matches respectively in the middle of March 23 and April 5. However, Delhi Capitals are going to play three home and two away matches, on the other hand, RCB is going to host two games and will be on the road for three matches. In the first two weeks, a total number of 17 matches is going to be played across eight home locations of each franchise.

Indian Premier League 2019 Schedule-

As per the BCCI official, “The idea is to finish the home-and-away fixtures as much as possible so that towards the latter half if we need to juggle things and pick neutral venues we can do it. It’s already late and the franchises will have to figure out the logistics and travel plans”.

If the BCCI is enforced to postpone the first phase, then too, it will make an effort and conclude the majority of the home-and-away matches.

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The statement from the officials on the Indian Premier League website states, “This is still subject to the announcement of Lok Sabha 2019 election dates. Once the election dates are released we will address any issues with the first two weeks and also prepare a schedule for the remainder of the season working with the local authorities around the polling dates”.

Indian Premier League schedule-

The initial schedule of IPL for the only first two weeks is as follows:

23 March 2019

20.00

Chennai Super Kings (Home team) vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

24 March 2019