Ipl News 2020 Live Update: Vcricket Schedule Countdown Begins for the Big Event in Uae
IPL News 2020 schedule, MI vs CSK Dream 11 IPL Team Players List, Squad Live Updates: Chennai Super Kings beat Mumbai Indians in the delayed tournament on Saturday
IPL News 2020, MI vs CSK Match 1 Team Players List Update: After a long wait, the Indian Premier League (IPL) is all set to start in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from Saturday and fans cannot keep calm. Although the match is just a few days from the start, IPL 2020 has started a huge discussion online with the team names.
Even though the event is taking place outside the country, it has not dampened the excitement amid the discussion of the global epidemic and talked about big cricket tournaments with fans happy to watch from their homes. Chennai Super Kings will take on Mumbai Indians in the delayed tournament opener on Saturday.
What they will be missing, like other teams, is the crowd support and especially their fans who called themselves as the Yellow Army. The players and other stakeholders are living in a biosecure bubble with no contact with the outside world as part of their measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus
Ipl News 2020 Live Update: Vcricket Schedule
Below are their complete fixtures for the upcoming CSK season
September 19, 2020: Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings, 7:30 PM IST (Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi)
September 22, 2020: Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings, 7:30 PM IST (Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah)
September 25, 2020: Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Capitals, 7:30 PM IST (Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai)
October 2, 2020: Chennai Super Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, 7:30 PM IST (Dubai)
October 4, 2020: Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings, 7:30 PM IST (Dubai)
October 7, 2020: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings, 7:30 PM IST (Abu Dhabi)
October 10, 2020: Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, 7:30 PM IST (Dubai)
October 13, 2020: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Chennai Super Kings, 7:30 PM IST (Dubai)
October 17, 2020: Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings, 7:30 PM IST (Sharjah)
October 19, 2020: Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals, 7:30 PM IST (Abu Dhabi)
October 23, 2020: Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians, 7:30 PM IST (Sharjah)
October 25, 2020: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings, 3:30 PM IST (Dubai)
October 29, 2020: Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 7:30 PM IST (Dubai)
November 1, 2020: Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab, 3:30 PM IST (Abu Dhabi)
CSK Full Squad
MS Dhoni (captain), Narayan Jagadeesan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, KM Asif, Ravindra Jadeja, M Vijay, Josh Hazlewood, Kedar Jadhav, Harbhajan Singh, Karn Sharma, Piyush Chawla, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Faf du Plessis, Shardul Thakur, Mitchell Santner, Dwayne Bravo, Lungi Ngidi, Sam Curran, Monu Kumar, Shane Watson, Sai Kishore.
IPLNews 2020 opening ceremony canceled, here's why | Cricket Schedule
IPL 2020: The much delayed Indian Premier League took place on Saturday without any customary glitz and glamor. This means that the IPL opening ceremony will not be held for the second consecutive time. The inauguration ceremony was canceled last year as the Committee of Administrators (COA) decided to donate the funds allocated to the families of CRPF personnel who lost their lives in the Pulwama terror attack.
This year the tournament will be held behind closed doors at three venues including Dubai and Sharjah. The inaugural match will be played between the Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians at Sheikh Zayed Stadium at 7:30 pm.
Also, for the first time, there will be no cheerleaders.
Yet Sourav Ganguly, Chairman of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, is expected to increase viewership for the 13th edition, with matches scheduled for India's evening primetime TV slot.
Ganguly said, "They (broadcasters) are really expecting the highest ratings of the IPL this season because they believe that if (people) don't come on the field, they are actually watching on their television sets Will to be, ”Ganguly said.
"There is positivity in everything."
Ganguly said the crowd could return to the stand later in the 53-day tournament, which would end on 10 November.
The former captain said, "Because of COVID and infection, you don't want people to be very close to each other, but very soon you will see that there will be 30 percent people in the area."
"They have tested properly and given permission to enter the area," he said. But I think it is going to happen over time. "
Rajasthan Royals batsman Robin Uthappa believes that the tournament will woo cricket lovers a year after the game was postponed and canceled.
In a video posted on the official website of the IPL, Uthappa said, "Certainly, this year is going to be really special, as we have all progressed as a human race."
"I think in this unpredictable time, we were longing for normalcy and these tournaments and games, in general, bring that feeling of normalcy back into our lives."
- Coronavirus cases -
To reduce the number of people in the field, there will be no dancing cheerleaders.
Players will be sent to and from hotels under strict BCCI Health Protection Protocol. Officials said more than 20,000 coronavirus tests would be performed.
The tournament is already under scrutiny after testing two players for coronavirus. Many top players pulled out citing personal reasons.
The IPL is the most popular domestic league in the world, but since its inception in 2008 has been battling corruption and match-fixing cases.
In 2013, two teams - Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals - were suspended for two seasons due to a spot-fixing scandal.
But with teams in the bio bubble, BCCI's anti-corruption chief Ajit Singh told AFP last month that "it will not be very difficult to control the interaction between players and others".
Despite the controversies, the IPL has attracted top foreign stars along with Australia's Pat Cummins, who was the most expensive foreign player after being bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for $ 2.17 million at auction.
The headlines will feature Indian stars including Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and star batsman Virat Kohli, who will seek their maiden IPL title with Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Dhoni retired from international cricket last month but is one of the biggest attractions of the tournament.
IPL 2020: Covered in PPE kits, Eng-Aus players land in Dubai, Rajasthan Royals says
The 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2020) has received a major boost as England and Australian players have arrived to play in the IPL 2020.
Covered from head to toe in PPE kits, it was difficult to identify any players as soon as they landed in Dubai.
Rajasthan Royals first tweeted a picture of the players along with the pension counsel. With the arrival of players, the Royals can finally breathe easier.
Tom Curran, Steve Smith, Joffre Archer, Andrew Tye were the four cricketers who touched base in the UAE before IPL 2020. In a tweet on Thursday night, Rajasthan Royals said, "Four new arrivals. Can you guess who?"
Warner and some other players were seen wearing personal protection kits (PPE) in the wake of the COVID-19 epidemic, which has forced the BCCI to relocate the league out of India this year.
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After landing in Dubai, a picture of David Warner and Pat Cummins in a full-body PPE kit is going viral on social media. 21 players from England and Australia arrived in Dubai for the IPL and will now spend 36 hours separating themselves in their hotel rooms.
The quarantine period of these players is much shorter than the 6-day period created by players going from India to the UAE, as only English and Australian teams for the IPL moved from one bio bubble of England to another.
Players will now undergo mandatory RT-PCR testing for the novel coronavirus upon their arrival.
IPL 2020: England, Australia players to undergo 36 hours quarantine instead of 6 days
All RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 and three players from Kolkata Knight Riders - Eoin Morgan, Tom Banton, and Pat Cummins - will go to Abu Dhabi in Dubai, where their team is based on 36 hours.
Only KKR and defending champions Mumbai Indians are based in Abu Dhabi while the remaining six franchises are in Dubai.
The Abu Dhabi government has so far refused to relax its 14-day quarantine regime regardless of the outcome of the Kovid-19 tests.
Night Riders along with Mumbai Indians are two franchises based in Abu Dhabi. While Mumbai Indians played no role in arriving via a chartered flight from Manchester, the Knight Riders have Eoin Morgan, Pat Cummins, and Tom Banten.
However, the Dubai government has agreed to relax the rules and those who live there will now have to undergo 36 hours of quarantine upon arrival from the United Kingdom, provided the PCR test result is negative. The rationale behind such an exemption is that players are traveling from one biofuel bubble to another.
Ipl Diaries - Edition 4
IPL Diaries Edition 4
The D day is almost here. All eight teams have done their very best to enjoy the bubble and keep energy levels high throughout these testing times. Marquee players joining their squads continued high-intensity practice drills and some fun on the sidelines.
IPL Diaries edition 4 has got you covered on all the latest from the eight teams.
Mumbai Indians
The defending champions had their pre-season press conference with captain Rohit Sharma and Head Coach Mahela Jayawardene.
With the addition of Chris Lynn to the MI family this season, Jayawardene was asked if the combination at the top will be tweaked The Sri Lankan great made it clear that MI will continue with the Rohit-QDK option.
Rohit also announced that he is looking to face the new ball.
They were also asked if the past UAE experience is at the back of their mind when in 2014, Mumbai Indians had lost all their five games before turning it around in India. Rohit said with a new-look team than from the one in 2014, they will avoid looking at carrying any extra baggage.
IPL is like a festival
The MI captain added that the Dream11 IPL is like a festival in India and as role models, they want to send the right message across to the people back home. He added that know this sport means so much to the Indian fans.
Kolkata Knight Riders
All the way from the US of A
Kolkata Knight Riders welcomed pacer Ali Khan to their family after being named the replacement for Harry Gurney. Khan will be the first player from the USA to play the Dream11 Indian Premier League.
Beat the Heat, KKR Way!
The Cool Khan might be in the room confines, but the rest of the Knights found out different ways to cope with the heat. Someone get them a drink!
Brotherly love, social distancing style
Last week we saw Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma & KKR members Abhishek Nayar & Kuldeep Yadav playing catch-up maintaining social distancing. This time it was Dinesh Karthik and Hardik Pandya doing the same.
Abu Dhabi – a new home for the Knights
The team also revealed the first look of their home ground for 8 games this season, away from home.
Chennai Super Kings
"Who is that whistling in my class?"
"This boy only sir."
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Fun shoots and play
As the season opener is all set to approach, the Chennai Super Kings have been busy wrapping up their shoots. There are fun and banter as they prep up for the camera.