The Indian team will also play the first two Test matches of the 4-Test series against England in Chennai. from February 13 to 17 and the IPL auction will occur the very next day in Chennai itself. The last date of registration for players to enter the auction is 4 February.

The IPL has announced the auction date on its official Twitter account on Wednesday.

Royal Challengers Bangalore started their campaign on a winning note as they defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 10 wickets to open their account in IPL 13.

Winning the toss, Sunrisers put RCB to bat first as it has been the trend so far this IPL. RCB got off to a flyer with debutant Devdutt Padikkal scoring a handsome 56 off 42 along with Aaron Finch for an opening stand of 90. Sunrisers’ bowlers slowed down the run rate and got two quick wickets. With Virat Kohli and AB De ’Villiers, RCB looked poised for a good total but Kohli got out cheaply. RCB was unable to take advantage of the opening stand but ABD proved once again by best scoring 51 to take the team to a respective total of 163.

In reply, Sunrisers lost their captain David warner early but Jonny Bairstow and Manish Pandey stitched in a good partnership. Jonny Bairstow scored 61 and at 121/2 in 15 overs. SRH looked poised for the victory. But Yuzevendra Chahal picked 2 in 2 to turn the tide of the match in RCB’s favor. In the end, it was a bit too much for the lower order as they got bundled out for 153 giving RCB the win.

David Warner the RCB captain pointed out that the over from Chahal was the turning point. He was also a bit surprised by the way he got dismissed today. He was overall impressed by the comeback his bowlers made after the opening stand but stated there was room for improvement.

Virat Kohli was pleased with his openers and also pleased with how his bowlers defended the total especially having to cope with Bairstow early on. He also praises for Yuzevendra Chahal as well as for other part-time bowlers who did the job when it was needed.

Chahal became the man of the match for his figures of 3/18 in 4 overs.

The 2^nd game of IPL poised to another thriller with Delhi Capitals edging out Kings XI Punjab in the super over. The match was evenly poised as both teams had control of the match at some points but the match went right down to the wire with Delhi prevailing

Winning the toss KXIP chose to field. The pitch had a tinge of green and had significant bounce with the opening pair of Mohammed Shami and Sheldon Cottrell as Delhi lost their first 3 wickets inside the powerplay. Captain Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant started the rebuilding process but with the score of 100 after 17th over it looked done and dusted. But Marcus Stoinis punished the bowlers scoring 44 runs off the last two to take to a respectable score of 157/8

In reply, KXIP had a good start but lost 4 wickets for just 5 runs and were 55/5 at one stage. The match looked in Delhi’s pocket but Mayank Agrawal played a sublime knock of 89 to take the team on the grasp of victory but the last 3 balls produced. W W as both the teams had an identical score of 157/8 which led to the super over

Super over was just a mere formality as Kagiso Rabada destroyed Punjab restricting them to just 2 runs as Delhi won the Super over comfortably and the game.

KL Rahul the KXIP captain was a bit disappointed with the way the match panned out but he praised Mayank Agarwal for his efforts.

Shreyas Iyer, the Delhi Captain had a few nervous moments as he misjudged a catch which almost cost his team the match but was of full praise of Kagiso Rabada and Marcus Stoinis for their performance

The main aspect of the main was an umpiring blunder which cost the game for Punjab when the umpire gave a legit run as a short run.

Marcus Stoinis was adjudged Man of the Match for his all-round performance.

• The 13th edition of the IPL will now be held from April 15
• Earlier IPL was scheduled to start from March 29
• The IPL dates postponed due to Corona Virus (COVID19)

The Indian Premier League (IPL 2020) has been postponed till 15 April due to the effect of Coronavirus. According to the earlier schedule, IPL was to begin on March 29 but in view of the danger of coronavirus, the start of the 13th season of IPL has now been postponed till 15 April.

The Delhi government has taken a big decision that no IPL matches will be played in Delhi this year. Jay Shah the secretary of the BCCI yesterday posted notice of postponing IPL 2020 on the website of iplt20.com. Here is a link to notice postponing the IPL matches www.iplt20.com

BCCI also post a tweet of postponed the IPL due to effect of Corona Virus