IPL 2011 Schedule PDF & Excel and IPL 2011 Indian Premier League Teams, Players and Venues details

The Indian Premier League 2011season is the fourth edition of Indian Premier League, which is called as short IPL 4 2011 is scheduled to starts April 8. IPL 2011 season 4 will be end on May 22, 2011. The Indian Premier league is established in 2007 by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). India will host season 4 IPL 2011 tournament this time and Chepauk Stadium, Chennai will host the opening ceremony of IPL 4 2011. Chepauk Stadium, Chennai is the home ground for current Champions Chennai Super Kings. IPL 2011 complete schedule and Fixtures have been announced. Sahara Pune Warriors and Kochi are the new two teams who will play the upcoming season IPL 4. IPL 4 auctions are completed, but still one or two teams like Kochi has some amount of dollars remains to bid some players. The upcoming Cricket extravaganza IPL 2011 season 4 will be held straight away after the top Cricket Mega event ICC World Cup 2011which is scheduled of February 2011 in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

IPL 4 2011 (The Indian Premier League) tournament Schedule format is changed due to the introduction of 2 new teams such as Sahara Pune Warriors and Kochi. In the new ten-team format of IPL 4 2011, consists of 74 matches and a playoff format system replaces the previous knockout stage. In the case of match tie in IPL 4, a super Over will play to decide the winner. In super over, both teams can bat for 1 over (6 balls), the winner will be the team Who hits the most runs in that one over. See the IPL 2011 Schedule Excel

In this time IPL 2011 tournament Schedule season 4 has divided the ten teams into two groups of five. Each team will play 14 games in group wise. Each team will play two matches against the other four teams in their group and once against four teams in other group and two matches against the remaining team of other group. A chance draw will decide the groups and who plays against whom across the groups one time and two times. After the group stage, a playoff format would play between the four teams who won the group stages in the first 4 places. 2 Points will be awarded the team for a win and 1 point will be in case of no result and zero point for loss the game.

Playoffs games will be played as follows in IPL 4 2011

• Match A, between the teams ranked first and second in the group stage.
  
• Match B, between the teams ranked third and fourth in the group stage.
  
• Match C, between the loser of Game A and winner of Game B.
  
• Final, between the winners of Matches A and C

IPL 2001 Season 4 all teams and players

Total 10 teams are playing in the upcoming IPL 4 season with the new squads of Kochi and Pune. Each team can have a team of maximum 30 players with utmost of US$9 million to bidding the players. Each team can keep four players from the previous season, with at most three Indians.
This time DLF IPL Season playing 10 Teams Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai Super Kings, Kings XI Punjab, Deccan Chargers, Sahara Pune Warriors, Team Kochi, Rajasthan Royals, Mumbai Indians And Delhi Daredevils.

List of DLF IPL 2011 Season 4 Teams 2011 Players

DECCAN CHARGES TEAM

Dan Christian, Kumar Sangakkara, Kevin Pietersen, Cameron White, JP Duminy,Shikhar Dhawan, Michael Lumb, Chris Lynn, Ishant Sharma, Dale Steyn Pragyan Ojha, Amit Mishra, Manpreet Gony, Rusty Theron

CHENNAI SUPER KINGS TEAM

Faf du Plessis, Albie Morkel, Dwayne Bravo, Scott Styris, MS Dhoni, Wriddhiman Saha, Suresh Raina (retained), M Vijay, Michael Hussey, S BadrinatH, George Bailey, Doug Bollinger, R Ashwin ($850,000), Ben Hilfenhaus, Joginder Sharma, Nuwan Kulasekara, Sudeep Tyagi, Suraj Randiv

KINGS XI PUNJAB TEAM

Shaun Marsh, David Hussey, Stuart Broad, Praveen Kumar, Ryan Harris, Piyush Chawla, Nathan Rimmington, Abhishek Nayar, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Adam Gilchrist, Dinesh Karthik

DELHI DAREDEVILS TEAM

Virender Sehwag, David Warner, Aaron Finch, Venugopal Rao, Travis Birt, Colin Ingram, Morne Morkel, Ajit Agarkar, Ashok Dinda, Umesh Yadav, Robert Frylinck, Irfan Pathan, James Hope, Roelof van der Merwe, Andrew McDonald, Naman Ojha, Matthew Wade

KOCHI TEAM

Mahela Jayawardene, VVS Laxman Brad Hodge, Owais Shah, Michael Klinger, Sreesanth, RP Singh, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ramesh Powar, Vinay Kumar, Steve O'Keefe, Ravindra Jadeja, Steven Smith, Brendon McCullum, Parthiv Patel

ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGLORE TEAM

Johan van der Wath, AB de Villiers, Virat Kohli, Saurabh Tiwary, Cheteshwar Pujara, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mohammad Kaif, Luke Pomersbach, Rilee Rossouw, Jonathan Vandiar, Zaheer Khan, Dirk Nannes, Abhimanyu Mithun, Charl Langeveldt, Nuwan Pradeep, Daniel Vettori.

KOLKATE KNIGHT RIDERS TEAM

Gautam Gambhir, Manoj Tiwary, Eoin Morgan, L Balaji, Brett Lee, Jaidev Unadkat, James Pattinson, Yusuf Pathan Jacques Kallis, Shakib Al Hasan, Ryan ten Doeschate, Brad Haddin

MUMBAI INDIANS TEAM

Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma, Aiden Blizzard, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga, Munaf Patel, Clint McKay, Kieron Pollard (retained), Andrew Symonds, James Franklin, Moises Henriques, Davy Jacobs

IPL Winners in Last 3 edition

1st IPL ( 2008 ) – Rajasthan Royals ( RR vs CSK )
2nd IPL ( 2009 ) – Deccan Chargers ( DC vs RC )
3rd IPL ( 2010 ) – Chennai Super Kings ( CSK vs MI )