Fans in Maharashtra, you will be a lot closer to the action this IPL - which will run from March 26 to May 29

 IPL 2022 will start on March 26 with the last set to be played on May 29. The timetable was drawn up on Thursday by the IPL Governing Council, who additionally concluded that the association period of the competition would be confined to only two urban areas: Mumbai and Pune. Four settings - the Wankhede Stadium and Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, the DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai, and the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Gahunje, in the edges of Pune - will have the association stage highlighting 70 matches.

With respect to the end of the season games, which will include four matches, the IPL has chosen to keep its scene choices open until further notice. An official conclusion on that, the Governing Council chose, would be taken later in light of the Covid-19 pandemic circumstance in India in April-May.

The Governing Council additionally chose to keep open the choice of permitting groups to go to the matches, dependent upon consent from the Maharashtra government.

ESPNcricinfo has discovered that the IPL will conclude and share the competition plan by the principal seven day stretch of March. The IPL this time will be a 10-group competition with the expansion of two new establishments - Lucknow Super Giants and Gujarat Titans - last October. At a gathering on January 22, each of the 10 establishments had consistently upheld the IPL's first choice of leading the competition in Quite a while.

The establishments had likewise preferred restricting the competition to only one setting - Mumbai - after the catastrophe in the 2021 season, which must be delayed at the midway stage when the second influx of Covid-19 that was clearing across India penetrated the IPL bubble. In an inward survey, the IPL presumed that groups going between various urban areas had been one reason for positive cases inside groups in the primary portion of the 2021 version. The competition continued in September-October, with the subsequent leg played in the UAE - which had arranged the aggregate of IPL 2020.

With respect to the organization during the association stage, it couldn't be affirmed whether the IPL will follow the 2011 idea, whenever the competition first included 10 groups. In the 2011 version, the 10 groups were parted into two free gatherings, and the competition included 70 association matches and four end of season games, with every one of the groups positioned in one composite association table. During the association stage, each group played a similar number of association matches, which was 14.

Each group played the other four in their gathering both home and away (eight matches), four of the groups in the other gathering once every (four matches, either home or away), and the excess group in the other gathering two times, both home and away. An irregular draw concluded the piece of the gatherings as well as who played whom across the gatherings once and two times.

Ladies' T20 Challenge liable to return

The Governing Council additionally supported bringing back the Women's T20 Challenge, which last occurred in 2020. The organization is probably going to be same as in the 2020 version, where three groups - Supernovas, Velocity and Trailblazers - played a sum of four matches including the last. The Women's T20 Challenge ordinarily happens during the IPL's end of the season games week. No firm choice has yet been taken on whether the ladies' competition will happen at a different scene - as in 2020 - from the IPL end of the season games.

Having started as a competition to give openness to Indian ladies players as well as uncovering undiscovered ability - a model being the India hitter Shafali Verma - the T20 challenge has developed altogether. In 2020 the BCCI said the T20 Challenge was "monetarily autonomous", with Jio named as the very first title support. Regardless of being played in Sharjah and away from the IPL season finisher scenes, the 2020 release of the competition pulled in record viewership.

The competition will in any case need to stand by before it extends to turn into a completely fledged Women's IPL, nonetheless, with BCCI president Sourav Ganguly saying as of late that the board was at the degree of "definition" to send off it in 2023.