The first season of the Indian Premier League commenced on 18 April 2008,
and ended on 1 June 2008 with the victory of the Rajasthan Royals against
Chennai Super Kings in the final at the DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai.
South Africa will host the second edition of the much-awaited Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 championship is scheduled to begin on April 18.
The first match will be held at the at Newlands, Cape Town between last year champion Rajasthan Royals and Bangalore Royal Challengers.
The opening match and final in the second edition of the Indian Premier League
in South Africa will be held at the Newlands Stadium in Cape Town and the
Wanderers in Johannesburg respectively on April 18 and May 24.
The semi-finals are to be held on May 22 and 23 in Pretoria and Johannesburg
respectively, as per the full schedule of the Twenty20 League available with PTI.
In a double header on the first day, last year’s winners Rajasthan Royals will
take on Royal Challengers, Bangalore, while Mumbai Indians will clash with the
first edition’s runners-up, Chennai Super Kings, at Cape Town.
In all, the 59 matches will be held in eight cities: Cape Town, Johannesburg,
Durban, Pretoria, East London, Kimberly, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth.
Kingsmead in Durban, which has a large number of South Asians, has been alloted
the lion’s share of 16 matches while the Centurion Park in Pretoria will host
12.
The Wanderers in Johannesburg and Newlands in Cape Town come next best with
eight matches each, with the latter playing host to four of these on the first
two days of the cash-rich, high-profile competition.
Seven matches are to be held in St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth while Buffalo
Park in East London has been allotted four matches.
Two matches each have been handed to Outsurance Oval in Bloemfontein and De
Beers Oval in Kimberley.
The matches will be played at 1600 IST (12.30 pm local time) and 2000 IST (4.30
pm local time).
There are ten double headers (two matches back-to-back at the same venue), with
Durban hosting half of these.
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