Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, March 14: The first match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 will be between MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders on March 26. Although the T20 league will begin in just over ten days, some of the world’s best cricketers will be unavailable for the tournament’s first week.
Due to personal and national team commitments, top cricketers such as Australia’s Glenn Maxwell and David Warner, as well as South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada and Quinton de Kock, would be unavailable for the first week of the IPL 2022.
Earlier on Sunday, Gujarat Titans unveiled their team’s official jersey at the Narendra Modi Cricket stadium in Ahmedabad, in the presence of captain Hardik Pandya, head coach Ashish Nehra, Director of Cricket Vikram Solanki and BCCI secretary Jay Shah and other team members and officials.
Notably, the Ahmedabad-based franchise will join the Lucknow Super Giants in this IPL season to make their debut, bringing the total number of teams to ten. The Hardik Pandya-led team will kick off their IPL 2022 campaign on March 28 at the Wankhede Stadium against the Lucknow franchise. They will, however, hold a pre-season camp at their historic home ground in Ahmedabad.
Cricketers who could miss first week of IPL:
Dwaine Pretorius, Jofra Archer, Pat Cummins, Aaron Finch, Rassie van der Dussen, Marco Jansen, Sean Abbott, Aiden Markram, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Anrich Nortje (injury), Mustafizur Rahman, Lungi Ngidi, Jason Behrendorff, Glenn Maxwell, Josh Hazlewood, Jonny Bairstow, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Ellis, Marcus Stoinis, Jason Holder, Kyle Mayers, Mark Wood, Quinton de Kock, David Miller, Alzarri Joseph.
