IPL 2023 Live Telecast Channel in India: When and Where to Watch Indian Premier League 2023 Matches?

Dixit Bhargav | 31/03/2023
IPL 2023 Live Telecast Channel in India: When and Where to Watch Indian Premier League 2023 Matches?

Call it a carnival or an extravaganza but the 16th season of the biggest T20 league in the world is all set to get off the ground at the Narendra Modi Stadium in less than 12 hours from now.

Defending champions Gujarat Titans will host Chennai Super Kings in Indian Premier League 2023 season opener. The season is going to be the first one since 2019 when each team will be playing its league matches according to the home-away format.

Since IPL has become a 10-team affair now, teams have been divided into two groups of five each. 14 league matches will constitute of a team playing all the remaining four teams of its group once and five teams of the opposite group twice. All of this, however, will be done in the form of seven home and away matches each with traveling no longer a concern in a post-COVID world.

A grand total of 70 league matches will be played across a 52-day period comprising 18 double-headers and no rest day. Although the fixtures for the same are yet to be released, the remaining four playoff matches will be played between May 22 and May 28.

IPL 2023 Live Telecast Channel in India

After 15 years of its existence, IPL 2023 is all set to become the first season where two different platforms will be sharing the television and digital rights. Been there and done that for the last decade, Star Sports Network will be televising all the 74 matches of the season on a plethora of channels in as many as nine different languages.

In addition to Star’s dedicated sports channels namely Star Sports 1/1 HD, Star Sports 2/2 HD, Star Sports Select 1/1 HD, Star Sports 1/1 HD Hindi, Star Sports 1/1 HD Tamil, Star Sports 1/1 HD Telugu, Star Sports 1 Kannada, some selected IPL 2023 matches will also be televised on entertainment channels such as Star Utsav Movies and Star Gold.

Speaking of the official streaming platform, Viacom18 Network’s Jio Cinema will be live streaming 16th season of the IPL. On paper, Jio Cinema appears to be providing more fascinating offerings in the name of various camera angles and commentary panels in 12 languages.

Date – 31/03/2023 (Friday) – 28/05/2023 (Sunday).

Match start Time – 03:30 PM & 07:30 PM (IST).

TV Channels – Star Sports 1/1 HD, Star Sports 2/2 HD, Star Sports Select 1/1 HD, Star Sports 1/1 HD Hindi, Star Sports 1/1 HD Tamil, Star Sports 1/1 HD Telugu, Star Sports 1 Kannada & Star Utsav Movies.

Streaming platform – Jio Cinema.

Can I watch Jio Cinema on laptop?

Yes. Contrary to popular suggestions around downloading an APK file to run Jio Cinema on your laptops, all users need to do is open its official website on any web browser and use it like any other streaming platform. Click here to directly reach the website of Jio Cinema.

Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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