Thursday 6 April 2017 09:19, UK
Get the full IPL experience with Sky Sports!
The 2017 Indian Premier League gets underway on April 5, when defending champions Sunrisers Hyderabad take on last year's runners-up Royal Challengers Bangalore. Check out the full schedule here.
You can watch each game on Sky Sports, as well as stay across all the action and reaction on our digital platforms. Here's how…
WAYS TO WATCH
Sky Sports - Watch every ball on Sky Sports and Sky Sports for iPad app as the competition unfolds, plus match highlights, and get the best insight from a star-studded line up of studio guests...
- Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Shane Warne and Mark Ramprakash will be among the guests joining us at Sky Studios to provide expert analysis and demonstrations.
- Get the complete immersive India experience as Mark Butcher takes you behind the scenes of the tournament, showing the unique sights and sounds of India.
Sky Sports for iPhone / Android / iPad and skysports.com: Don't miss our video highlights of all the key moments, as well as match reports, news, reaction, analysis, scorecards, videos and podcasts.
- Join Matt Floyd and guests for a review of the key action and talking points - as well as some of the more unusual moments - in 'IPL Bitesize'
Sky Go: Stay with the action online, on iPhone, iPad or selected Android smartphones with the Sky Go app.
Twitter: follow @SkyCricket for score updates and news throughout the tournament.
Highlights: Watch the best bits from each match again - or catch up - with our highlights programme
Sky Q: The best of our video content showcased on our next generation box, which can record and store more than before and even save recordings to your devices to watch when you're out and about. Sky Q customers can also use the Sky Sports News HQ app to get scorecards and video clips as well as catching up with highlights via the red button.
Now TV: Watch Sky Sports 2 - plus our other Sky Sports Channels - online for 24 hours through your broadband connection with the Sky Sports Day Pass.
On Demand: Catch up with all the best features, interviews and highlights.
THE FORMAT
Launched in 2008, the IPL features many of the world's best players in a two-month Twenty20 competition contested across India, with matches drawing huge crowds with electric atmospheres.
Eight teams take part - Delhi Daredevils, Kings XI Punjab, Kolkata Knight Riders, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rising Pune Supergiants and Gujarat Lions.
The teams play each other twice, home and away, in a league format, with the top four teams qualifying for the finals stage.
The top two play in a first preliminary round match, the winner going straight through to the final, with the loser playing a second preliminary round against the winners of a match between the third and fourth-placed teams for the right to also then advance to the final, to be held on May 21.
PAST WINNERS
2008: Rajasthan Royals
2009: Deccan Chargers
2010: Chennai Super Kings
2011: Chennai Super Kings
2012: Kolkata Knight Riders
2013: Mumbai Indians
2014: Kolkata Knight Riders
2015: Mumbai Indians
2016: Sunrisers Hyderabad
Sky Sports is the only place you can watch all the action from the 2017 IPL.
