IPL 2025 Team Squads: Indian Premier League Team Players List, Updated Squads, Captains, And More Details

The 2025 Indian Premier League - the world's biggest T20 franchise tournament - starts on Saturday, 22 March.

The 18th edition of the competition features 10 teams battling for the title, currently held by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).

New rules and new captains will be in focus but the razzmatazz will be pretty much the same when the 18th Indian Premier League kicks off in Kolkata on Saturday (March 22, 2025) with defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders taking on perennial underachievers Royal Challengers Bengaluru amid a looming threat of rain.

There is plenty to look forward in the league. Among the most prominent rule changes is the lifting of saliva ban. For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, bowlers will be allowed to use it to shine the ball.

When does the IPL 2025 start?

It begins on Saturday, 22 March, with defending champions KKR hosting a Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) side featuring superstar Virat Kohli from 14:00 GMT.

What is the IPL 2025 schedule & when is the final?

The group stage features 70 matches across 13 venues and runs until Sunday, 18 May.

The knockout stage begins on Tuesday, 20 May and the final takes place at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Sunday, 25 May.

IPL 2025 Teams Groups List

Group A: Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Punjab Kings

Group B: Mumbai Indians, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Gujarat Titans, Delhi Capitals, Lucknow Super Giants

What is the format for the IPL 2025?

The teams are split into two groups of five and each play 14 group matches in total.

Each side plays against the teams in their group twice - home and away - and also faces the team in the same row in the other group home and away (for example, Rajasthan Royals and Gujarat Titans will play each other twice).

They also play against the four remaining teams in the other group once, with the results forming one overall table.

The top four teams in this table qualify for the play-offs.

First and second in the group will face each other in 'Qualifier 1' on 20 May for a place in the final.

Third and fourth then play on 21 May in the 'Eliminator' - the winners of that match face the losing side from the first play-off for the second spot in the final.

IPL 2025 teams and all squads - full players list of every team in 18th Indian Premier League.

The following are the full squads of the 10 teams, who will play 74 matches in the competition through a league stage and the four-team playoffs.

Chennai Super Kings

Squad: Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain),

Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Ravichandran Ashwin, Vansh Bedi, Mukesh Choudhary, Devon Conway, Sam Curran, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Shivam Dube, Nathan Ellis, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Shreyas Gopal, Deepak Hooda, Ravindra Jadeja, Anshul Kamboj, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Jamie Overton, Matheesha Pathirana, Shaik Rasheed, Rachin Ravindra, Vijay Shankar, Andre Siddarth, Gurjapneet Singh, Rahul Tripathi

Coach: Stephen Fleming

Best performance: Champions (2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, 2023)

Delhi Capitals

Squad: Axar Patel (captain),

Dushmantha Chameera, Faf du Plessis, Donovan Ferreira, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Mukesh Kumar, Manvanth Kumar, Ajay Mandal, Karun Nair, Darshan Nalkande, Thangarasu Natarajan, Vipraj Nigam, Abhishek Porel, KL Rahul, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Madhav Tiwari, Tristan Stubbs, Tripurana Vijay, Kuldeep Yadav

Coach: Hemang Badani

Best Performance: Runners-up (2020)

Gujarat Titans

Squad: Shubman Gill (captain),

Gurnoor Brar, Jos Buttler, Gerald Coetzee, Karim Janat, Arshad Khan, Rashid Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Kulwant Khejroliya, Sai Kishore, Prasidh Krishna, Kumar Kushagra, Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Phillips, Kagiso Rabada, Anuj Rawat, Sherfane Rutherford, Ishant Sharma, Nishant Sindhu, Mohammed Siraj, Sai Sudharsan, Washington Sundar, Manav Suthar, Rahul Tewatia, Jayant Yadav

Coach: Ashish Nehra

Best performance: Champions (2022)

Kolkata Knight Riders

Squad: Ajinkya Rahane (captain),

Moeen Ali, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Spencer Johnson, Mayank Markande, Sunil Narine, Anrich Nortje, Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Harshit Rana, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Luvnith Sisodia, Chetan Sakariya

Coach: Chandrakant Pandit

Best performance: Champions (2012, 2014, 2024)

Lucknow Super Giants

Squad: Rishabh Pant (captain),

Shahbaz Ahmed, Ayush Badoni, Ravi Bishnoi, Matthew Breetzke, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Akash Deep, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Arshin Kulkarni, Shamar Joseph, Aryan Juyal, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, David Miller, Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, Manimaran Siddharth, Akash Singh, Digvesh Rathi, Himmat Singh, Mayank Yadav, Prince Yadav

Coach: Justin Langer

Best performance: Playoffs (2022, 2023)

Mumbai Indians

Squad: Hardik Pandya (captain),

Raj Bawa, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Deepak Chahar, Naman Dhir, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Will Jacks, Bevon Jacobs, Ashwani Kumar, Robin Minz, Vignesh Puthur, Satyanarayana Raju, Ryan Rickelton, Mitchell Santner, Karn Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Krishnan Shrijith, Arjun Tendulkar, Reece Topley, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav

Coach: Mahela Jayawardene

Best performance: Champions (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020)

Punjab Kings

Squad: Shreyas Iyer (captain),

Priyansh Arya, Pyla Avinash, Xavier Bartlett, Harpreet Brar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Praveen Dubey, Lockie Ferguson, Aaron Hardie, Josh Inglis, Marco Jansen, Musheer Khan, Glenn Maxwell, Azmatullah Omarzai, Kuldeep Sen, Suryansh Shedge, Arshdeep Singh, Harnoor Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Yash Thakur, Vishnu Vinod, Nehal Wadhera, Vijaykumar Vyshak

Coach: Ricky Ponting

Best performance: Runners-up (2014)

Rajasthan Royals

Squad: Sanju Samson (captain),

Jofra Archer, Yudhvir Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Shubham Dubey, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Kwena Maphaka, Riyan Parag, Nitish Rana, Kunal Singh Rathore, Ashok Sharma, Sandeep Sharma, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Maheesh Theekshana

Coach: Rahul Dravid

Best performance: Champions (2008)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Squad: Rajat Patidar (captain),

Virat Kohli, Jacob Bethell, Manoj Bhandage, Swastik Chikara, Rasikh Salam Dar, Tim David, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Liam Livingstone, Lungi Ngidi, Devdutt Padikkal, Krunal Pandya, Mohit Rathee, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Suyash Sharma, Romario Shepherd, Abhinandan Singh, Swapnil Singh, Nuwan Thushara

Coach: Andy Flower

Best performance: Runners-up (2009, 2011, 2016)

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Squad: Pat Cummins (captain),

Zeeshan Ansari, Sachin Baby, Rahul Chahar, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Eshan Malinga, Abhinav Manohar, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mohammed Shami, Abhishek Sharma, Simarjeet Singh, Atharva Taide, Jaydev Unadkat, Aniket Verma, Adam Zampa, Wiaan Mulder

Coach: Daniel Vettori

Best performance: Champions (2016)

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