All you want to know about IPL 2017

Key teams and players

Royal Challengers Bangalore
Squad: Virat Kohli (captain), Pawan Negi, Tymal Mills, Aniket Choudhary, Praveen Dubey, Billy Stanlake, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sarfaraz Khan, S Aravind, Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Iqbal Abdulla, Travis Head, Sachin Baby, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi.
Ruled out due to Injury: Virat Kohli (ruled out of action for at least two weeks), KL Rahul, AB de Villiers (to miss opener), Sarfaraz Khan, Mustfizur Rehman
Mumbai Indians
Squad: Rohit Sharma (captain), Jos Buttler , Parthiv Patel , Nicholas Pooran, Krishnappa Gowtham, Ambati Rayudu, Lendl Simmons, Kulwant Khejroliya, Karn Sharma, Saurabh Tiwary, Asela Gunaratne, Mitchell Johnson, Harbhajan Singh, Mitchell McClenaghan, Shreyas Gopal, Siddhesh Lad, Vinay Kumar, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Tim Southee, Lasith Malinga, Jagadeesha Suchith, Nitish Rana, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Jitesh Sharma, Deepak Punia.
Lasith Malinga likely to miss initial matches.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Squad: Gautam Gambhir (captain), Trent Boult, Chris Woakes, Rishi Dhawan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Shakib Al Hasan, Chris Lynn, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Sheldon Jackson, Ankit Singh Rajput, Rovman Powell, R Sanjay Yadav, Ishank Jaggi, Darren Bravo, Sayan Ghosh, Andre Russell
Umesh Yadav to miss initial matches
Kings XI Punjab
Squad: Glenn Maxwell (captain), Manan Vohra, Axar Patel, David Miller, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shaun Marsh, Wriddhiman Saha, Nikhil Naik, Mohit Sharma, Marcus Stoinis, KC Cariappa, Armaan Jaffer, Pardeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, Hashim Amla, Varun Aaron, Eoin Morgan, Matt Henry, Rahul Tewatia, Martin Guptill, Darren Sammy, Rinku Singh, T Natarajan
Kings XI Punjab would miss Murali Vijay but Glenn Maxwell, after a few indifferent knocks last season, may just tee off well.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Squad: David Warner (captain), Naman Ojha , Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra, Mustafizur Rahman, Bipul Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Deepak Hooda, Barinder Sran, Moises Henriques, Ricky Bhui, Ben Cutting, Mohammad Nabi, Eklavya Dwivedi, Pravin Tambe, Tanmay Agarwal, Rashid Khan, Kane Williamson, Shikhar Dhawan, Abhimanyu Mithun, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Mohammad Siraj, Chris Jordan, Ben Laughlin.
Delhi Daredevils
Squad: Zaheer Khan (captain), Shashank Singh, Mohammed Shami, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jayant Yadav, Amit Mishra, Sreyas Iyer, Sam Billings, Sanju Samson, Chris Morris, Carlos Brathwaite, Angelo Mathews, Corey Anderson, Kagiso Rabada, Pat Cummins, Ankit Bawne, Aditya Tare, Murugan Ashwin, Navdeep Saini, Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant, CV Milind, Syed Ahmed, Pratyush Singh.
Ruled out due to injury: Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy
Rising Pune Supergiants
Squad: Steve Smith (captain), MS Dhoni, Ajinkya Rahane, Ankit Sharma, Ishwar Pandey, du Plessis, Mitchell Marsh, Baba Aparajith, Ashok Dinda, Jaskaran Singh, Adam Zampa, Rajat Bhatia, Deepak Chahar, Ben Stokes, Jaidev Unadkat, Rahul Chahar, Saurabh Kumar, Daniel Christian, Milind Tandon, Rahul Tripathi, Manoj Tiwary, Lockie Ferguson, Ankush Bains
Ruled out due to injury: Mitchell Marsh, Ravichandran Ashwin
Gujarat Lions
Squad: Suresh Raina (captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Smith, Dwayne Bravo, Brendon McCullum, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Manpreet Gony, Ishan Kishan, Shadab Jakati, Dinesh Karthik, Chirag Suri, Shivil Kaushik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Pratham Singh, Jason Roy, Pradeep Sangwan, Jaydev Shah, Shelley Shaurya, Nathu Singh, Tejas Baroka, Andrew Tye, Akshdeep Nath, Shubham Agarwal and Basil Thampi.
Ravindra Jadeja likely to skip first half of IPL

Most expensive players at the IPL auction 2017

1: Ben Stokes (all rounder) - Rs145 million (Dh7.9 million) Team: Rising Pune Supergiants
2: Tymal Mills (bowler) - Rs 120 million (Dh6.58 million) Team: Royal Challengers Bangalore
3: Kagiso Rabada (bowler) - Rs50 million (Dh2.74 million) Team: Delhi Daredevils
4: Trent Boult (bowler) - Rs50 million (Dh2.74 million) Team: Kolkata Knight Readers
5: Patrick Cummins (bowler) - Rs45 million (Dh2.46 million) Team: Delhi Daredevils

Five overseas players to watch out for:

1: Ben Stokes (Rising Pune Supergiants): The richest buy of IPL-10, Ben Stokes will surely be someone to look out for Rising Pune Supergiants.
2: Tymal Mills (Royal Challengers Bangalore): England's Tymal Mills will be the bowler to look out for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the tenth season of IPL.
3: Jason Roy (Gujarat Lions): England's Jason Roy will be crucial for Gujarat Lions in the IPL season 10.
4: Kagiso Rabada (Delhi Daredevils): South Africa's Kagiso Rabada will be Delhi Daredevils front-line seamer in the upcoming season.
5: Trent Boult (Kolkata Knight Riders): New Zealand's Trent Boult is among the few fast bowlers who are exceptional fielders, and has a particular knack for one-handed blinders.

Five Indian players to watch out for:

Rishabh Pant (Delhi Daredevils)
The young wicketkeeper-batsman from Uttarakhand opened the batting for India in the U-19 World Cup in Bangladesh, smashed a record-breaking fifty against Nepal and followed it up with a century against Namibia to help India qualify for the semi-finals.
Ishank Jaggi (Kolkata Knight Riders)
Jaggi was a prolific scorer in the Ranji Trophy for Jharkhand and is the leading scorer in the Syed Mustaq Ali Trophy with 1,246 runs at an average in excess of 34. The reward for his consistency was a berth in India A's squad for the Deodhar Trophy.
Kedar Jadhav (Royal Challengers Bangalore)
Kedar Jadhav is a middle-order batsman from Maharashtra who came into the limelight with a 29-ball 50 for Delhi Daredevils on his IPL debut. He scored six fifties and one century during the 2008-09 first-class season and those who have seen him bat for Maharashtra rate him as a natural Twenty20 player.
Priyank Panchal (Gujarat Lions)
The left-hand batsman was one of the mainstays of the Gujarat batting line-up and he played a major role in his team winning the Ranji Trophy title in 2017.
Jasprit Bumrah (Mumbai Indians)
Jasprit Bumrah has been one of Mumbai Indians' best finds of recent times, and a lot will be expected of him in 2017 as well.

Players missing from action due to injury

Royal Challengers Bangalore
Virat Kohli: Ruled out of action for at least two weeks. The skipper will undergo rehabilitation for the injury sustained during the Ranchi Test. His recovery will be assessed in the second week of April to determine an exact return to play date.
KL Rahul: The star opener was ruled out after injuring his shoulder and has been replaced by Tamil Nadu's wicket-keeper batsman N Jadadeesan.
AB de Villiers: The stand-in skipper injured his back while playing for Titans in the Momentum Cup, which has ruled him out of the event's final as well.
Rising Pune Supergiant
Mitchell Marsh: Got injured during the Test series between India and Australia. Has been replaced by South African spin-bowling all-rounder Imran Tahir.
Ravichandran Ashwin: The ace spinner will not be available for the entire IPL due to recurrence of sports hernia. He has been advised 6-8 weeks of rehabilitation to recuperate from his groin pain.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Umesh Yadav: Set to miss out for the first two weeks after being assessed by Team India physio Patrick Ferhart.
Gujarat Lions
Ravindra Jadeja: The ICC Test World No. 1 bowler has also been side-lined for the first two weeks after being instrumental in team India's long home Test season dominance.
Kings XI Punjab
Murali Vijay: The Indian opener is likely to have a surgery to his right wrist and also undergo rehabilitation for his left shoulder. He is effectively out of IPL 2017.
Delhi Daredevils
Quinton de Kock: The South African wicket-keeper batsman suffered a tendon damage on his right index finger, after which he too withdrew from the IPL season 10.
Martin Guptil: Hamstring strains ruled him out of the remainder of the New Zealand's domestic season and the first stage for Kings XI Punjab in IPL.

Live matches and live streaming across the world:

In the Indian subcontinent, IPL 2017 will be broadcast on TV by Sony Pictures Network.
The IPL 2017 will be streamed online on Hotstar (mobile and internet with a 5-minute delay).
UAE: OSN will broadcast live and exclusive coverage of ILP 2017 in UAE
OSN Rights - (MENA Counties) - Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunasia, and Yemen only.
Following is a list of channels; where the IPL 2017 will be broadcast live in foreign countries.
# Sony Pictures Network - Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and their respective territories
# ESPN and Willow TV - US
# Super Sport - South Africa
# Sky Sports - UK
# Flow TV and Sportsmax - Caribbean
# Sky NZ - New Zealand
# Singtel, Starhub, Elevan sports (OTT) and cricketgateway.com - Singapore
# Cricketgateway.com - Australia, South-East Asia, Rest of Asia, South America
# Cricketgateway.com & Ethnic channel group - Canada
# Now TV & Cricketgateway.com - Hong Kong
# Lemar TV & Cricketgateway.com - Afghanistan
# Bong BD and cricketgateway.com - Bangladesh
# Talk Radio - European territory
(With inputs from AFP/PTI/IANS)