IPL is the most-watched league when it comes to cricket. No wonder because some of the best IPL teams play in tournaments. But what makes these Indian Premier League cricket teams so special? They have everything from an eclectic collection of the best players worldwide to intense competitive rivalry. Follow these pages to learn more about IPL Teams 2025.
The excitement of the T20 format is all set to commence in the upcoming season of the TATA Indian Premier League 2025. The IPL 2025 will start on March 14, and the final game will be played on May 25, 2025. The complete IPL team schedule is yet to be announced.
There will be 10 participating IPL teams in the eighteenth edition, with IPL Group A teams playing one game and IPL Group B teams playing two against other groups. The evening matches will start at 7:30 PM IST, with the daytime matches beginning at 3:30 PM. The 18th edition of TATA IPL promises to be an entertaining one!
The ten TATA IPL teams participating in the 18th TATA IPL season are Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Delhi Capitals (DC), Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), Punjab King (PBKS), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Mumbai Indians (MI), Rajasthan Royals (RR), Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), and Gujarat Titans (GT).
Each IPL cricket team can have a minimum of 18 and 25 players, with a maximum of six overseas players. The following teams have announced their squads for the IPL 2025 season.
CSK was formed in 2008 and is owned by India Cements Limited. Compared to the other IPL clubs, it has the highest winning rate of 57.74%. The team won the league championship five times: 2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, and 2023. It has also made the most appearances in the IPL Final (ten times). Ruturaj Gaikwad will retain the captaincy of Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2025.
CSK Squad: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ravindra Jadeja, Mathessha Pathriana, Shivam Dube, Noor Ahmad, Ravichandran Ashwin, Devon Conway, Khaleel Ahmed, Rachin Ravindra, MS Dhoni, Anshul Kamboj, Rahul Tripathi, Sam Curran, Gurjapneet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Deepak Hooda, Jamie Overton, Vijay Shankar, Vansh Bedi, C Andre Siddharth, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Shaikh Rasheed, Mukesh Chowdhary, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shreyas Gopal
Delhi Capitals, owned jointly by the GMR Group and the JSW Group, will be under the guidance of Hemang Badani as head coach for the 18th season of the TATA IPL. KL Rahul was bought by the Delhi Capitals for Rs 14 crore at the IPL Mega Auction. Their home games will be held at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, with a capacity of 55,000 spectators. At the end of the last season, Delhi Capitals were placed 6th on the TATA IPL team points table. In 2024, the team had 14 matches, of which they won 7, but unfortunately were unable to qualify for the playoffs.
DC Squad: Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Tristan Stubbs, Jake Fraser-McGruk, Mukesh Kumar, Harry Brook, Abishek Porel, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, Dushmantha Chameera, Vipra Nigam, Karun Nair, Madhav Tiwari, Manvanth Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, Darshan Nalkande, Ajay Mandal
CVC Capital Partners has taken ownership of Gujarat Titans, which will compete in the TATA IPL 2025. Shubhman Gill will probably captain the team like last year, and Ashish Nehra will take charge of coaching. The team's home ground is the Hardik Narendra Modi Stadium in Motera, Ahmedabad. Their priciest picks are Jos Buttler for 15.75 crores, Kagiso Rabada, and Mohammed Siraj, purchased for 10.75 and 12.25 crore Indian rupees, respectively.
GT Squad: Rashid Khan, Shubhman Gill, Jos Buttler, Mohammed Siraj, Kagiso Rabada, Prasidh Krishna, Sai Sudharsan, M Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Washington Sundar, Sherfane Rutherford, Gerald Coetzee, Sai Kishore, Glenn Phillips, Mahipal Lomror, Gurnoor Brar, Arshad Khan, Karim Janat, Jayant Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Kumar Kushagra, Nishant Sindhu, Manav Suthar, Anuj Rawat, Kulwant Khejroliya
Red Chilies Entertainment owns Kolkata Knight Riders, one of the most competitive IPL teams. Ajinkya Rahane is expected to lead the team in IPL 2025, and Chandrakant Pandit will be the head coach. The team won the IPL 2024 after defeating Sunriser Hyderabad. KKR, a three-time winner of the IPL, is the only other team with multiple IPL titles.
KKR Squad: Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Anrich Nortje, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh, Quinton de Kock, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Spencer Johnson, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Moeen Ali, Vaibhav Arora, Rovman Powell, Ajinkya Rahane, Umran Malik, Manish Pandey, Anukul Roy, Luvnith Sisodia, Mayank Markande
Lucknow Super Giants will join the TATA IPL tournament 2025 with KL Rahul as the previous captain and Andy Flower as the head coach. Rishabh Pant was acquired for 27 crore Indian Rupee and is expected to replace the former captain. The team had a successful run in the previous season, playing 14 matches with 7 victories and 7 losses, ultimately securing 7th place in the fantasy IPL team points table. They will be playing their home matches at the BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, which can accommodate up to 50,000 spectators.
LSG Squad: Rishabh Pant, Nicholas Pooran, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Mohsin Khan, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Aiden Markram, Shamar Joseph, Manimaran Siddharth, Matthew Breetzke, Digvesh Rathi, Arshin Kulkarni, Prince Yadav, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Akash Singh, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Aryan Juyal, Himmat Singh
Mumbai Indians, led by Hardik Pandya, have been the most successful and prominent team in the IPL since 2008. They have won the IPL title a record five times. However, the last 2024 season wasn’t favourable for them, and they ended up in last place in the fantasy IPL team points table. They won only four out of their 14 matches. MI will be playing their home matches at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Hardik is confirmed to lead MI in the IPL season of 2025.
MI Squad: Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Rohit Sharma, Trent Boult, Deepak Chahar, Tilak Varma, Naman Dhir, Will Jacks, AM Ghazanfar, Mitchell Santner, Ryan Rickelton, Reece Topley, Lizaad Williams, Robin Minz, Karn Sharma, Vignesh Puthur, Bevon Jacobs, Satyanarayana Raju, Raj Bawa, Ashwani Kumar, Arjun Tendulkar, Krishnan Shrijith
Punjab Kings, the Punjab IPL team, is owned by Mohit Burman, Ness Wadia, Preity Zinta, and Karan Kaul. Shreyas Iyer, acquired for 26.75 crore, will captain the team in TATA IPL 2025, with Ricky Ponting as the head coach. Unfortunately, in 2024, PBKS could only win 5 out of 14 games in the league and was placed second-lowest in the IPL 2024 points table.
PBKS Squad: Shreyas Iyer, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Shashank Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Glenn Maxwell, Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Josh Inglis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Lockie Ferguson, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Yash Thakur, Harpreet Brar, Aaron Hardie, Vishnu Vinod, Kuldeep Sen, Xavier Bartlett, Suryansh Shedge, Pyla Avinash, Musheer Khan, Harnoor Singh, Praveen Dubey
Sanju Samson will lead Rajasthan Royals again in the TATA IPL in 2025, with Rahul Dravid as head coach. The team's home ground is Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, owned by Manoj Badale. In the 2024 TATA IPL season, the Royals played 14 matches, winning 8, losing 5, and having No Results. Rajasthan Royals came third in the TATA IPL 2024.
RR Squad: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Jofra Archer, Shimron Hetmyer, Tushar Deshpande, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Nitish Rana, Sandeep Sharma, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kwena Maphaka, Akash Madhwal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Shubham Dubey, Yudhvir Singh, Kunal Singh Rathore, Ashok Sharma, Kumar Kartikeya
Under Virat Kohli's captaincy again and with Andy Flower as head coach, Royal Challengers Bangalore, owned by United Spirits, will compete in the TATA IPL 2025. RCB has had a fair amount of success in the IPL, having been runners-up three times (2009, 2011, 2016). However, despite their impressive record, they have yet to win the IPL title.
RCB Squad: Virat Kohli, Josh Hazlewood, Phil Salt, Rajat Patidar, Jitesh Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Liam Livingstone, Rasikh Salam, Krunal Pandya, Yash Dayal, Tim David, Suyash Sharma, Jacob Bethell, Devdutt Padikkal, Nuwan Thushara, Romario Shepherd, Lungi Ngidi, Swapnil Singh, Abhinandan Singh, Swastik Chikara, Mohit Rathee, Manoj Bhandage
The 10 participating teams in the TATA IPL 2025 tournament will be divided into two groups of five teams each. Each IPL team will play seven home and seven away matches for 70 league matches. 18 double headers will also be featured in the event.
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No, the TATA IPL 2025 will have just 10 teams, all of which will play their home games at their home grounds in India.
The final TATA IPL 2025 match is yet to be announced.
The Men's TATA IPL 2025 is scheduled to start on 14 March 2025.
Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians won five IPL teams and are considered the most successful.
