The next season of IPL will start from March 14 and its final will be played on May 25. IPL has given this information in an email sent to the teams on Thursday. According to Cricinfo, IPL has sent a draft schedule of the next three seasons to all the teams, but it is likely that these will be the final dates.
The 2026 season will be played between March 15 and May 31, while the 2027 season will be played between March 14 and May 30. There will be 74 matches in the 2025 season, which is equal to the previous three seasons. However, no official statement has come from IPL or BCCI about this so far.
IPL claimed the presence of foreign players in the window of all three seasons. In the email sent by IPL, it has been claimed that foreign players have agreed to their availability for the next three seasons. Foreign players have got permission from their board to play during this period. Pakistan is not included in this.
Australia Cricket Board
Australia Cricket Board gave consent for all three seasons Australia Cricket Board has approved both its domestic and international cricketers to play in the IPL 2025 season. After the T20 World Cup to be held in February-March 2026, the Australian team will play a three-match ODI series with Pakistan. This series will end before March 18. During the 2027 season, a single Test will be played between Australia and England in March to commemorate the completion of 150 years of Test cricket. After that Australian players will be available for IPL.
The England and Wales Cricket Board has also given a list of players included in the central contract, who will be available in the next three seasons of IPL. However, the name of England’s Test captain Ben Stokes is missing from this list. Stokes is not included in the mega auction of IPL 2025. The list of players who will be fully available between 2025 and 2027 includes Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Jonny Bairstow, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler, Brydon Carse, Jack Crawley, Sam Curran, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Liam Livingstone, Ollie Pope, Matthew Potts, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Ollie Stone and Reece Topley.
Sri Lanka Cricket also agreed Sri Lanka Cricket has said that its players will be fully available for the 2025 season. Players retained before 2026 and 2027 will be available again.
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Bangladesh has sent a list of 13 players Bangladesh Cricket Board has sent 13 names with different availability for each player over a period of three years. This list includes Taskin Ahmed, Liton Das, Mahedi Hasan, Shakib Al Hasan, Rishad Hussain, Tauhid Hridoy, Shoriful Islam, Shohidul Islam, Hasan Mahmud, Mehdi Hasan Miraz, Mustafizur Rahman, Nahid Rana, Tanzim Hasan Sakib.
Apart from this, players from South Africa, New Zealand, West Indies, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe will be fully available.
BCCI on Friday released the final list of 574 players for the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction. These include 366 Indian and 208 foreign players. The base price of 81 players is Rs 2 crore.
All three finals will be played on Sunday
The tournament will be held from March 15 to May 31 in 2026 and from March 14 to May 30 in 2027. All three finals will be played on Sunday. Archer did not play IPL this year and left midway in 2023 due to an elbow injury. Netravalkar impressed with his performance in the T20 World Cup in the US. Former India Under-19 cricketer Netravalkar has played Ranji Trophy for Mumbai but moved to the US to study computer engineering and works at Oracle. The name of Indian-origin American player Unmukt Chand in place of Netravalkar in the auction list had raised eyebrows as Unmukt was not part of the US team in the T20 World Cup.
74 matches will be played in the 18th season
74 matches will be played in the 18th season of IPL. The same number of matches were played in the last three seasons as well. A total of 84 matches were played in the year 2022. 10 matches less will be played this time. 2023-27 media rights have been sold.
