2023 Indian Premier League

Dates	31 March 2023 – 30 May 2023
Administrator	Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Group stage and playoffs
Champions	Chennai Super Kings (5th title)
Runners-up	Gujarat Titans
Participants	10
Matches	74
Most valuable player	Shubman Gill (Gujarat Titans)
Most runs	Shubman Gill (Gujarat Titans) (890)
Most wickets	Mohammed Shami (Gujarat Titans) (28)
Official website	iplt20.com
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The2023 Indian Premier League (also known asTata IPL 2023 for sponsorship reasons and sometimes referred to asIPL 2023 orIPL 16) was the 16th season of theIndian Premier League, a franchiseTwenty20 cricket league inIndia. It is organised by theBoard of Control for Cricket in India.^[1]

In thefinal,Chennai Super Kings defeatedGujarat Titans, by five wickets (DLS method) to win their fifth league title.^[2]

The league returned to its original home-and-away format after a four year hiatus.^[3] Due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, the previous three seasons were held at neutral venues.^[4] "Fan parks" were organised in 45 cities, events which last occurred in 2019,^[5][a] and an opening ceremony took place for the first time with performances fromArijit Singh,Tamannaah Bhatia, andRashmika Mandanna.^[6][7]

The teams are divided into two groups (A and B) of five teams. Each team plays twice against all five teams in the other group (home and away), and once against all four of the teams in its own group. All teams play seven home and seven away games.^[8]

A number of new laws have been introduced in this season:

• A penalty of five runs if unfair movement by a fielder or wicketkeeper occurs as a ball being delivered and before it is received by the batsman. The dead ball will also be declared.^[9]
• Teams can be declared after the toss.
• An "Impact Player" rule allowing sides to substitute a player during a match from four named substitutes.^[b][10]
• If a team fails to bowl their 20 overs in the allocated time, only four fielders will be allowed outside of the fielding restrictions circle for the remainder of the innings.^[9]
• Teams can review balls for wides and no-balls using theDecision Review System (DRS). This change was first used during the2023 Women's Premier League.^[11]

The same 10 teams from theprevious season returned with few changes to the team personnel.^[12][13]

In August 2022,Chandrakant Pandit replacedBrendon McCullum as head coach ofKolkata Knight Riders.^[15] In SeptemberMumbai Indians promotedMahela Jayawardene to a strategic role in the franchise and recruitedMark Boucher as head coach for 2023.^[16] In November,Tom Moody was replaced byBrian Lara as head coach ofSunrisers Hyderabad.^[17] On 16 September 2022Anil Kumble was also replaced byTrevor Bayliss as head coach ofPunjab Kings.^[18]

In November 2022,Shikhar Dhawan replacedMayank Agarwal as the captain of Punjab Kings.^[19]

The IPL auction took place on 23 December 2022 inKochi.^[20] The most expensive player wasSam Curran, bought byPunjab Kings for₹18.50crore (US$2.2 million), the most paid for a player in the history of the league.^[21]

The league stage was played at 12 stadiums in India.

In the playoffs phase, the first qualifier and eliminator matches were played atChennai and the second qualifier and the final were played atAhmedabad.

Mumbai

Kolkata

Mohali

Bengaluru

Jaipur

Delhi

Hyderabad

Chennai

Ahmedabad

Dharmashala

Lucknow

Guwahati

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Cities where teams that participated in the 16th season are based.

The schedule for the group stages was published on 17 February 2023.^[23]

The full schedule for the playoffs was announced on 21 April 2023.^[39]

In June 2022, the broadcasting rights for the league between 2023 and 2027 were sold for₹48,390crore (US$5.7 billion), establishing the league as the second most expensive tournament in the world after theNational Football League, overtaking theEnglish Premier League.^[45]Star Sports renewed its television contract, andViacom18 acquired the digital rights within India; matches were streamed for free onJioCinema.^[46][47] The final peaked at over 32 million viewers on JioCinema, overtaking a match from the2019 Cricket World Cup as the most concurrent viewers on a live streaming event worldwide.^[48][49]

In this IPL season, matches took longer time to finish due to teams bowling at aslow over-rate. According to the IPL rules, an innings should be completed in 90 minutes, including two 5-minute strategic timeouts, and a complete match should be finished in stipulated 3 hours and 20 minutes. However, as of 5 April 2023, not a single innings had ended in the above-mentioned time frame. Despite penalizing team captains, the over rates have seen little improvement.^{[58][59][60][61][62]}

English cricketerJos Buttler appealed onTwitter that the IPL matches should be sped up. Due to theslow over-rates of the various teams, this season's matches finished after 11:30 pm (IST). IPL evening matches are scheduled to start at 7:30 pm and, therefore, should be concluded by 10:50 pm.^[63]

The 2023 season saw the introduction of the impact player rule which allowed for each team to provide a list of 5 players along with the list of their playing 11. Of these 5 designated players, any impact player could then be bought on to feature in the match.^[64]

Many cricket pundits criticised the newimpact player rule because of the thought that this rule negates the role and involvement of all-rounders in the game.^[65][66]

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