The 2017 Indian Premier League season (also known as IPL 10 and branded as Vivo IPL 2017) was the tenth edition of the Indian Premier League, a professional Twenty20 cricket league established by the BCCI in 2007. The tournament featured the eight teams that played in the previous season. The 2017 season started on 5 April 2017 and finished on 21 May 2017, with Hyderabad hosting the opening match and the final. Mumbai Indians won by 1 run against Rising Pune Supergiant in the final, winning their third title making them the first team to achieve the milestone. The tagline Dus saal aapke naam (10 years of IPL). This was the last time that Sony Television Network broadcast the tournament before Star Sports Network snatchthe broadcasting rights from the 11th season and are currently bearing the broadcasting rights for the tournament.
Sunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner won the Orange Cap for the leading run-scorer of the tournament with 641 runs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, also of Sunrisers Hyderabad, was awarded the Purple Cap for finishing as the leading wicket-taker of the tournament with 26 wickets. Rising Pune Supergiant's Ben Stokes was named the Most Valuable Player, while Basil Thampi of Gujarat Lions was named the Emerging Player of the Tournament.
Format Eight teams were contesting the season. The schedule for the tournament was published on 15 February 2017. The league stage, consisting of 56 matches, took place between 5 April and 14 May 2017. The top four teams qualified for the play-offs, with the final held in Hyderabad on 21 May.
Venues Ten venues were selected to host the matches. The opening match and the final were played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad.
Bangalore Delhi Hyderabad Royal Challengers Bangalore Delhi Daredevils Sunrisers Hyderabad M. Chinnaswamy Stadium Feroz Shah Kotla Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium Capacity: 35,000 Capacity: 41,000 Capacity: 55,000 Indore Kanpur Kings XI Punjab Gujarat Lions Holkar Cricket Stadium Green Park Capacity: 30,000 Capacity: 33,000 Kolkata Mohali Kolkata Knight Riders Kings XI Punjab Eden Gardens Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium Capacity: 68,000 Capacity: 26,000 Mumbai Pune Rajkot Mumbai Indians Rising Pune Supergiant Gujarat Lions Wankhede Stadium Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium Capacity: 33,000 Capacity: 42,000 Capacity: 28,000
Personnel changes
The retention lists for the season were announced in December 2016. On 3 February, the BCCI announced that the player auction would be held on 20 February 2017 in Bengaluru with a total of 799 players registered for it. On 14 February, the IPL Desk released a list of 351 players. Out of the 351 players shortlisted, 66 players were sold at the 2017 IPL Auction.
Opening ceremonies Unlike the previous IPL seasons each of which had a single opening ceremony, the 2017 season featured opening ceremonies at each venue before the start of the first match at the venue. The ceremonies included performances by Amy Jackson (at Hyderabad); Shalmali Kholgade and Riteish Deshmukh (at Pune); Bhoomi Trivedi, Sachin–Jigar and Tiger Shroff (at Rajkot); Harshdeep Kaur and Disha Patani (at Indore); Benny Dayal and Kriti Sanon (at Bangalore); Sushant Singh Rajput and Malaika Arora (at Mumbai); Shillong Chamber Choir, Monali Thakur and Shraddha Kapoor (at Kolkata); Raftaar, Yami Gautam and Guru Randhawa (at Delhi).
Teams and standings
Points table
("C" refers to the "Champions" of the Tournament. 'R'(2nd Position), '3' and '4' are the positions of the respective teams in the tournament.)
Match summary
League stage
Match results
All 10 Delhi Daredevil wickets were out caught
Playoffs
Qualifier 1
Eliminator
Qualifier 2
Final
Statistics
Most runs
Player Team Runs David Warner Sunrisers Hyderabad 14 14 641 Gautam Gambhir Kolkata Knight Riders 16 16 498 not out Shikhar Dhawan Sunrisers Hyderabad 14 14 479 Steve Smith Rising Pune Supergiant 15 15 472 not out Suresh Raina Gujarat Lions 14 14 442 David Warner of Sunrisers Hyderabad received the Orange Cap. Source: ESPNcricinfo
Most wickets
Player Team Bhuvneshwar Kumar Sunrisers Hyderabad 14 14 26 5/19 Jaydev Unadkat Rising Pune Supergiant 12 12 24 5/30 Jasprit Bumrah Mumbai Indians 16 16 20 3/7 Mitchell McClenaghan Mumbai Indians 14 14 19 3/24 Imran Tahir Rising Pune Supergiant 12 12 18 3/18 Bhuvneshwar Kumar of Sunrisers Hyderabad received the Purple Cap. Source: ESPNcricinfo
Awards Player Team Award Value Glenn Maxwell Kings XI Punjab Most sixes Ben Stokes Rising Pune Supergiant Most Valuable Player Basil Thampi Gujarat Lions Emerging player Suresh Raina Gujarat Lions Best catch and a phone Sunil Narine Kolkata Knight Riders Fastest fifty Yuvraj Singh Sunrisers Hyderabad Best shot and a car Gautam Gambhir Kolkata Knight Riders Stylish player Gujarat Lions Fairplay Award Team trophy Source:
See also List of Indian Premier League records and statistics
References
External links Series home on ESPNcricinfo