AdministratorBoard of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
Cricket formatTwenty20
Tournament format(s)Group stage and playoffs
ChampionsChennai Super Kings (5th title)
Runners-upGujarat Titans
Participants10
Matches74
Most valuable playerShubman Gill (Gujarat Titans)
Most runsShubman Gill (Gujarat Titans) (890)
Most wicketsMohammed Shami (Gujarat Titans) (28)
Official websiteiplt20.com
The 2023 Indian Premier League (also known as Tata IPL 2023 for sponsorship reasons and sometimes referred to as IPL 2023 or IPL 16) was the 16th season of the Indian Premier League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league in India. It is organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
2023 Indian Premier League is located in IndiaIPL logo
Background
The league returned to its original home-and-away format after a four year hiatus. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the previous three seasons were held at neutral venues. "Fan parks" were organised in 45 cities, events which last occurred in 2019, and an opening ceremony took place for the first time with performances from Arijit Singh, Tamannaah Bhatia, and Rashmika Mandanna.
Format
The teams are divided into two groups (A and B) of five teams. Each team plays twice against all five teams in the other group (home and away), and once against all four of the teams in its own group. All teams play seven home and seven away games.
Group A
Group B
Mumbai Indians
Chennai Super Kings
Kolkata Knight Riders
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Rajasthan Royals
Gujarat Titans
Delhi Capitals
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Lucknow Super Giants
Punjab Kings
Rules
A number of new laws have been introduced in this season:
A penalty of five runs if unfair movement by a fielder or wicketkeeper occurs as a ball being delivered and before it is received by the batsman. The dead ball will also be declared. , Teams can be declared after the toss. , An "Impact Player" rule allowing teams to substitute a player during a match from four named substitutes. , If a team fails to bowl their 20 overs in the allocated time, only four fielders will be allowed outside of the fielding restrictions circle for the remainder of the innings. , Teams can review balls for wides and no-balls using the Decision Review System (DRS). This change was first used during the 2023 Women's Premier League.
Participating teams
The same 10 teams from the previous season returned with few changes to the team personnel.
Franchise
Head coach
Captain
Chennai Super Kings
Stephen Fleming
MS Dhoni
Delhi Capitals
Ricky Ponting
David Warner
Gujarat Titans
Ashish Nehra
Hardik Pandya
Kolkata Knight Riders
Chandrakant Pandit
Nitish Rana
Lucknow Super Giants
Andy Flower
KL Rahul
Mumbai Indians
Mark Boucher
Rohit Sharma
Punjab Kings
Trevor Bayliss
Shikhar Dhawan
Rajasthan Royals
Kumar Sangakkara
Sanju Samson
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Sanjay Bangar
Faf du Plessis
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Brian Lara
Aiden Markram
Personnel changes
In August 2022, Chandrakant Pandit replaced Brendon McCullum as head coach of Kolkata Knight Riders. In September Mumbai Indians promoted Mahela Jayawardene to a strategic role in the franchise and recruited Mark Boucher as head coach for 2023. In November, Tom Moody was replaced by Brian Lara as head coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad. On 16 September 2022 Anil Kumble was also replaced by Trevor Bayliss as head coach of Punjab Kings.
In November 2022, Shikhar Dhawan replaced Mayank Agarwal as the captain of Punjab Kings.
The IPL auction took place on 23 December 2022 in Kochi. The most expensive player was Sam Curran, bought by Punjab Kings for ₹18.50 crore (US$1.9 million), the most paid for a player in the history of the league.
Venues
The league stage was played at 12 stadiums in India.
In the playoffs phase, the first qualifier and eliminator matches were played at Chennai and the second qualifier and the final were played at Ahmedabad.
Team
Stadium
Location
Capacity
Chennai Super Kings
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium
Chennai
50,000
Delhi Capitals
Arun Jaitley Stadium
Delhi
35,200
Gujarat Titans
Narendra Modi Stadium
Ahmedabad
132,000
Kolkata Knight Riders
Eden Gardens
Kolkata
68,000
Lucknow Super Giants
BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium
Lucknow
50,000
Mumbai Indians
Wankhede Stadium
Mumbai
33,000
Punjab Kings
Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium
Dharamshala
23,000
Inderjit Singh Bindra Stadium
Mohali
27,000
Rajasthan Royals
Assam Cricket Association Stadium
Guwahati
46,000
Sawai Mansingh Stadium
Jaipur
30,000
Royal Challengers Bangalore
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
Bengaluru
40,000
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium
Hyderabad
55,000
Points table
The four top-ranked teams will qualify for the Playoffs. Advance to Qualifier 1 Advance to Eliminator
Pos
Grp
Teamv, t, e
Pld
W
L
NR
Pts
NRR
Qualification
1
B
Gujarat Titans (R)
14
10
4
0
20
0.809
Advanced to Qualifier 1
2
B
Chennai Super Kings (C)
14
8
5
1
17
0.652
3
A
Lucknow Super Giants (4th)
14
8
5
1
17
0.284
Advanced to Eliminator
4
A
Mumbai Indians (3rd)
14
8
6
0
16
−0.044
5
A
Rajasthan Royals
14
7
7
0
14
0.148
6
B
Royal Challengers Bangalore
14
7
7
0
14
0.135
7
A
Kolkata Knight Riders
14
6
8
0
12
−0.239
8
B
Punjab Kings
14
6
8
0
12
−0.304
9
A
Delhi Capitals
14
5
9
0
10
−0.808
10
B
Sunrisers Hyderabad
14
4
10
0
8
−0.590
Match summary
Note: The total points at the end of each group match are listed., Note: Click on the points (group matches) or W/L (playoffs) to see the match summary.
Note: Results listed are according to the home (horizontal) and visitor (vertical) teams., Note: Click on a result to see a summary of the match.
Team
Group matches
Playoffs
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Q1
E
Q2
F
Chennai Super Kings
0
2
4
4
6
8
10
10
10
11
13
15
15
17
W
W
Delhi Capitals
0
0
0
0
0
2
4
4
6
8
8
8
10
10
Gujarat Titans
2
4
4
6
6
8
10
12
12
14
16
16
18
20
L
W
L
Kolkata Knight Riders
0
2
4
4
4
4
4
6
6
8
10
10
12
12
Lucknow Super Giants
2
2
4
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
11
13
15
17
L
Mumbai Indians
0
0
2
4
6
6
6
8
10
10
12
14
14
16
W
L
Punjab Kings
2
4
4
4
6
6
8
8
10
10
10
12
12
12
Rajasthan Royals
2
2
4
6
8
8
8
10
10
10
10
12
12
14
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
2
2
2
4
4
6
8
8
10
10
10
12
14
14
Sunrisers Hyderabad
0
0
2
4
4
4
4
6
6
8
8
8
8
8
Win
Loss
No result
Visitor team →
CSK
DC
GT
KKR
LSG
MI
PBKS
RR
RCB
SRH
Home team ↓
Chennai Super Kings
Chennai27 runs
Kolkata6 wickets
Chennai12 runs
Chennai6 wickets
Punjab4 wickets
Rajasthan3 runs
Chennai7 wickets
Delhi Capitals
Chennai77 runs
Gujarat6 wickets
Delhi4 wickets
Mumbai6 wickets
Punjab31 runs
Delhi7 wickets
Hyderabad9 runs
Gujarat Titans
Gujarat5 wickets
Delhi5 runs
Kolkata3 wickets
Gujarat56 runs
Gujarat55 runs
Rajasthan3 wickets
Gujarat34 runs
Kolkata Knight Riders
Chennai49 runs
Gujarat7 wickets
Lucknow1 run
Kolkata5 wickets
Rajasthan9 wickets
Kolkata81 runs
Hyderabad23 runs
Lucknow Super Giants
Matchabandoned
Lucknow50 runs
Gujarat7 runs
Lucknow5 runs
Punjab2 wickets
Bengaluru18 runs
Lucknow5 wickets
Mumbai Indians
Chennai7 wickets
Mumbai27 runs
Mumbai5 wickets
Punjab13 runs
Mumbai6 wickets
Mumbai6 wickets
Mumbai8 wickets
Punjab Kings
Delhi15 runs
Gujarat6 wickets
Punjab7 runs (DLS)
Lucknow56 runs
Mumbai6 wickets
Rajasthan4 wickets
Bengaluru24 runs
Rajasthan Royals
Rajasthan32 runs
Rajasthan57 runs
Gujarat9 wickets
Lucknow10 runs
Punjab5 runs
Bengaluru112 runs
Hyderabad4 wickets
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Chennai8 runs
Bengaluru23 runs
Gujarat6 wickets
Kolkata21 runs
Lucknow1 wicket
Bengaluru8 wickets
Bengaluru7 runs
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Delhi7 runs
Kolkata5 runs
Lucknow7 wickets
Mumbai14 runs
Hyderabad8 wickets
Rajasthan72 runs
Bengaluru8 wickets
Home team won
Visitor team won
League stage
The schedule for the group stages was published on 17 February 2023.
Gujarat Titans won the toss and elected to field. , Tushar Deshpande for Ambati Rayudu (Chennai Super Kings) and Sai Sudharsan for Kane Williamson (Gujarat Titans) were the first Impact Players to be used in the IPL.
Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field. , The start of the second innings was delayed for more than 30 minutes due to malfunctioning floodlights. , Kolkata Knight Riders innings curtailed at 16 overs due to rain; DLS par score was 153.
Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to field.
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field. , Arshad Khan and Nehal Wadhera (Mumbai Indians) both made their T20 debuts.
Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and elected to field.
Gujarat Titans won the toss and elected to field.
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field.
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field. , Suyash Sharma (Kolkata Knight Riders) made his T20 debut.
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat.
Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
Gujarat Titans won the toss and elected to bat. , Rashid Khan (Gujarat Titans) took a hat-trick.
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to field. , Mohit Rathee (Punjab Kings) made his T20 debut.
Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and elected to field.
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field.
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
Gujarat Titans won the toss and elected to field. , Kagiso Rabada (Punjab Kings) became the fastest bowler, in terms of matches, to take 100 wickets in the Indian Premier League.
Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field. , Harry Brook (Sunrisers Hyderabad) scored his maiden IPL century.
Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to field.
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field. , Venkatesh Iyer (Kolkata Knight Riders) scored his maiden IPL century.
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field.
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field.
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to field.
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field.
Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to field.
Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
Gujarat Titans won the toss and elected to bat.
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field.
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field.
Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field.
Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bat.
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field.
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field.
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat.
Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to field. , Gurnoor Brar (Punjab Kings) made his T20 debut.
Gujarat Titans won the toss and elected to field.
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat.
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat. , Yashasvi Jaiswal (Rajasthan Royals) scored his maiden IPL century.
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat.
Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bat.
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field. , No further play was possible due to rain. , The match was shifted from 4 May to 3 May due to the Lucknow Municipal Corporation elections.
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field.
Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat.
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat.
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field. , Raghav Goyal (Mumbai Indians) made his T20 debut.
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat.
Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and elected to field.
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat.
Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field.
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field. , Yashasvi Jaiswal (Rajasthan Royals) scored the fastest fifty in IPL history (13 balls).
Gujarat Titans won the toss and elected to field. , Suryakumar Yadav (Mumbai Indians) scored his maiden IPL century.
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat.
Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field. , Delhi Capitals were eliminated as a result of this match. , Prabhsimran Singh (Punjab Kings) scored his first IPL century.
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat.
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to field. , Gujarat Titans qualified for the playoffs and Sunrisers Hyderabad were eliminated as a result of this match , Shubman Gill scored his maiden IPL century.
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field.
Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to field.
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field. , Heinrich Klaasen (Sunrisers Hyderabad) scored his maiden IPL century.
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field. , Punjab Kings were eliminated as a result of this match.
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat. , Chennai Super Kings qualified for the playoffs as a result of this match.
Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field. , Lucknow Super Giants qualified for the playoffs and Kolkata Knight Riders were eliminated as a result of this match.
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field. , Cameron Green (Mumbai Indians) scored his maiden IPL century. , Rajasthan Royals were eliminated as a result of this match.
Gujarat Titans won the toss and elected to field. , Himanshu Sharma (Royal Challengers Bangalore) made his T20 debut. , Mumbai Indians qualified for the playoffs and Royal Challengers Bangalore were eliminated as a result of this match.
Gujarat Titans won by 5 wickets Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: Saiyed Khalid (Ind) and Nitin Menon (Ind) Player of the match: Rashid Khan (Gujarat Titans)
Match 2 1 April 2023 15:30 (D/N) Scorecard
(H) Punjab Kings191/5 (20 overs)
v
Kolkata Knight Riders146/7 (16 overs)
Bhanuka Rajapaksa 50 (32) Tim Southee 2/54 (4 overs)
Andre Russell 35 (19) Arshdeep Singh 3/19 (3 overs)
Punjab Kings won by 7 runs (DLS method) Inderjit Singh Bindra Stadium, Mohali Umpires: Yeshwant Barde (Ind) and Bruce Oxenford (Aus) Player of the match: Arshdeep Singh (Punjab Kings)
Match 3 1 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard
(H) Lucknow Super Giants193/6 (20 overs)
v
Delhi Capitals143/9 (20 overs)
Kyle Mayers 73 (38) Khaleel Ahmed 2/30 (4 overs)
David Warner 56 (48) Mark Wood 5/14 (4 overs)
Lucknow Super Giants won by 50 runs BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Nikhil Patwardhan (Ind) Player of the match: Mark Wood (Lucknow Super Giants)
Match 4 2 April 2023 15:30 (D/N) Scorecard
Rajasthan Royals203/5 (20 overs)
v
Sunrisers Hyderabad (H)131/8 (20 overs)
Sanju Samson 55 (32) T. Natarajan 2/23 (3 overs)
Abdul Samad 32* (32) Yuzvendra Chahal 4/17 (4 overs)
Rajasthan Royals won by 72 runs Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Rohan Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Jos Buttler (Rajasthan Royals)
Match 5 2 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard
Mumbai Indians171/7 (20 overs)
v
Royal Challengers Bangalore (H)172/2 (16.2 overs)
Tilak Varma 84* (46) Karn Sharma 2/32 (4 overs)
Virat Kohli 82* (49) Arshad Khan 1/28 (2.2 overs)
Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 8 wickets M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: Nitin Menon (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Faf du Plessis (Royal Challengers Bangalore)
Match 6 3 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard
(H) Chennai Super Kings217/7 (20 overs)
v
Lucknow Super Giants205/7 (20 overs)
Ruturaj Gaikwad 57 (31) Ravi Bishnoi 3/28 (4 overs)
Kyle Mayers 53 (22) Moeen Ali 4/26 (4 overs)
Playoffs
The full schedule for the playoffs was announced on 21 April 2023.
Qualifier 1
Gujarat Titans won the toss and elected to field. , Chennai Super Kings qualified for the final for the 10th time in IPL history.
Eliminator
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat.
Qualifier 2
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field. , Shubman Gill (Gujarat Titans) made the highest individual score of 129 runs from 60 balls in IPL Playoffs. , Gujarat Titans's total was the highest score in IPL Playoffs.
Final
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field. , The match was originally scheduled to be held on 28 May 2023, but it was not held due to rain and was instead played on the reserve day on 29 May 2023 and ended on 30 May 2023 at 01:35 IST, thus, becoming the longest ever IPL final. , Chennai Super Kings were set a revised target of 171 runs from 15 overs due to rain. , By winning in the final, Chennai Super Kings equalled Mumbai Indians for winning the most IPL trophies (5).
Broadcasting
In June 2022, the broadcasting rights for the league between 2023 and 2027 were sold for ₹48,390 crore (US$5.1 billion), establishing the league as the second most expensive tournament in the world after the National Football League, overtaking the English Premier League. Star Sports renewed its television contract, and Viacom18 acquired the digital rights within India; matches were streamed for free on JioCinema. The final peaked at over 32 million viewers on JioCinema, overtaking a match from the 2019 Cricket World Cup as the most concurrent viewers on a live streaming event worldwide.
Slow over- rate
In this IPL season, matches took longer time to finish due to teams bowling at a slow over-rate. According to the IPL rules, an innings should be completed in 90 minutes, including two 5-minute strategic timeouts, and a complete match should be finished in stipulated 3 hours and 20 minutes. However, as of 5 April 2023, not a single innings had ended in the above-mentioned time frame. Despite penalizing team captains, the over rates have seen little improvement.
English cricketer Jos Buttler appealed on Twitter that the IPL matches should be sped up. Due to the slow over-rates of the various teams, this season's matches finished after 11:30 pm (IST). IPL evening matches are scheduled to start at 7:30 pm and, therefore, should be concluded by 10:50 pm.
Impact player rule
The 2023 season saw the introduction of the impact player rule which allowed for each team to provide a list of 5 players along with the list of their playing 11. Of these 5 designated players, any impact player could then be bought on to feature in the match.
Many cricket pundits criticised the new impact player rule because of the thought that this rule negates the role and involvement of all-rounders in the game.
