The 44-day, Twenty20 tournament gets underway between April 18 - June 1.

Here is the Indian Premier League match Schedule

• April 18: Bangalore v Kolkata at Bangalore
• April 19: Mohali v Chennai at Mohali and Delhi v Jaipur at Delhi
• April 20: Mumbai v Bangalore at Mumbai; Kolkata v Hyderabad at Kolkata
• April 21: Jaipur v Mohali at Jaipur
• April 22: Hyderabad v Delhi at Hyderabad
• April 23: Chennai v Mumbai at Chennai
• April 24: Hyderabad v Jaipur at Hyderabad
• April 25: Mohali v Mumbai at Mohali
• April 26: Bangalore v Jaipur at Bangalore; Chennai v Kolkata at Chennai
• April 27: Mumbai v Hyderabad at Mumbai; Mohali v Delhi at Mohali
• April 28: Bangalore v Chennai at Bangalore
• April 29: Kolkata v Mumbai at Kolkata
• April 30: Delhi v Bangalore at Delhi.
• May 1: Hyderabad v Mohali at Hyderabad; Jaipur v Kolkata at Jaipur
• May 2: Chennai v Delhi at Chennai.
• May 3: Hyderabad at Bangalore at Hyderabad; Mohali v Kolkata at Mohali
• May 4: Mumbai v Delhi at Mumbai; Jaipur v Chennai at Jaipur
• May 5: Bangalore v Mohali at Bangalore
• May 6: Chennai v Hyderabad at Chennai
• May 7: Mumbai v Jaipur at Mumbai
• May 8: Delhi v Chennai at Delhi; Kolkata v Bangalore at Kolkata
• May 9: Jaipur v Hyderabad at Jaipur
• May 10: Bangalore v Mumbai at Bangalore; Chennai v Mohali at Chennai
• May 11: Hyderabad v Kolkata at Hyderabad; Jaipur v Delhi at Jaipur
• May 12: Mohali v Bangalore at Mohali
• May 13: Kolkata v Delhi at Kolkata
• May 14: Mumbai v Chennai at Mumbai; Mohali v Jaipur at Mohali
  May 15: Delhi v Hyderabad at Delhi
• May 16: Mumbai v Kolkata at Mumbai
• May 17: Delhi v Mohali at Delhi; Jaipur v Bangalore at Jaipur
• May 18: Hyderabad v Mumbai at Hyderabad; Kolkata v Chenna at Kolkata
• May 19: Bangalore v Delhi at Bangalore
• May 20: Kolkata v Jaipur at Kolkata
• May 21: Mumbai v Mohali at Mumbai; Chennai v Bangalore at Chennai
• May 22: Delhi v Kolkata at Delhi
• May 23: Mohali v Hyderabad at Mohali.
• May 24: Delhi v Mumbai at Delhi; Chennai v Jaipur at Chennai
• May 25: Bangalore v Hyderabad at Bangalore; Kolkata v Mohali at Kolkata
• May 26: Jaipur v Mumbai at Jaipur
• May 27: Hyderabad v Chennai at Hyderabad
• May 28 and 29: Rest days
• May 30: First semi-final at Mumbai
• May 31: Second semi-final at Mumbai
• June 1: Final at Mumbai

PepsiCo is dropping Indian cricketers Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid as brand ambassadors and signed the two emerging cricketers Ishant Sharma and Rohit Sharma.
Sandeep Singh Arora PepsiCo India Executive Vice President, Marketing said

Time to time we review the list of stars and depending on situation, we pick and choose. Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma are in the attitude of reflecting brand image of Pepsi. If you talk about Rahul and Ganguly, they are not on the list now.

Bangalore, India
March 3-9, 2008
Tier II
Prize Money: $600,000
Draw: 28M/32Q/16D
Surface: Hardcourt/Outdoors

Sania Mirza, having made headlines for being embroiled in religious and national controversies in recent months, last week, decided to skip the $600,000 WTA Bangalore Open tennis championship starting on March 3. International favorites Venus and Serena Williams will be among those participating in the event.

Meanwhile Former India cricket captain Kapil Dev, who had led India to her lone World Cup win, said sportspersons are normally very emotional. Sania may have said that she was running into controversies whenever she played in India, in the heat of the moment.

“She will definitely play in India again” he said.