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The 2011 Indian Premier League season, abbreviated as IPL 4 or the IPL 2011, was the fourth season of the Indian Premier League, the top Twenty20 cricket league in India. The tournament was hosted in India and the opening and closing ceremonies were held in M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, the home venue of the reigning champions Chennai Super Kings.
Virat Kohli (left) holds the record for most runs in IPL history, while Yuzvendra Chahal (right) has taken the most wickets. The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a men's Twenty20 (T20) cricket competition, organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the national governing body of cricket in India .
The first match of IPL 2011 saw defending champions Chennai Super Kings start off their title defense with a home game against Kolkata Knight Riders. Chennai captain MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first. But it was Kolkata who got the start getting the wicket of Murali Vijay for 4 (4b, 1x4) in the first over.
The inaugural IPL season was won by Rajasthan Royals. [10] As of 2024, there have been seventeen seasons of the IPL tournament. [11] [12] Up until 2021, the IPL tournament involved each team playing every other team twice in a home-and-away, double round-robin format. [13] [14] From 2022, the ten teams were divided into two groups of five. A ...
The Super Kings started their IPL 2011 campaign with a two-run win against the Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai. Opener Anirudha Srikkanth won the Man of the match for scoring 64. But the Super Kings lost their second game of the season to the Kings XI Punjab , despite setting KXIP a target of 189, after Punjab's Paul Valthaty hit the first ...
For five-wicket hauls in Women's Premier League, see List of Women's Premier League (cricket) five-wicket hauls. In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five-for" or "fifer") refers to a bowler taking five or more wickets in a single innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, especially in T20 cricket where a bowler can bowl a maximum of only 24 balls (4 overs). The Indian ...
The Purple Cap, currently known as the Aramco Purple Cap for sponsorship reasons, [1] is presented to the leading wicket-taker in the IPL. [2] [21] After the introduction of Orange Cap on 25 April 2008, the IPL announced the introduction of the Purple Cap on 13 May 2008. The bowler with most wickets in the tournament during the course of the ...
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) is a franchise cricket team based in Kolkata, India, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2011 IPL. They were captained by Gautam Gambhir. Kolkata Knight Riders finished 4th in the IPL and qualified for the Champions League T20 for the first time.