The extremely anticipated third version of the Delhi Premier League (DPL 2026) is all set to get underway on July 31 on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. Organised by the Delhi & District Cricket Affiliation (DDCA), the event has shortly established itself as one in all India’s premier home T20 competitions, showcasing among the nation’s best rising abilities alongside skilled campaigners.
The lads’s event will run till August 30, that includes eight franchises battling throughout 44 matches, together with the playoffs. The ladies’s competitors will observe from August 20 to September 2, with 4 groups competing for the championship. Earlier than the opening conflict between Central Delhi Kings and Purani Dilli 6, followers can even witness a grand opening ceremony that includes performances by widespread singers Sunanda Sharma and Sukhbir Singh.
West Delhi Lions enter the event as defending champions after defeating Central Delhi Kings in final season’s remaining, whereas each franchise shall be aiming to make its mark in one other thrilling version of the capital’s flagship T20 competitors.
Delhi Premier League T20 2026: Schedule
| Match | Date | Fixture | Time (IST) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 31, 2026 (Friday) | Central Delhi Kings vs Purani Dilli 6 | 9:00 PM |
| 2 | August 1, 2026 (Saturday) | South Delhi Superstarz vs East Delhi Riders | 1:30 PM |
| 3 | August 1, 2026 (Saturday) | West Delhi Lions vs New Delhi Tigers | 7:00 PM |
| 4 | August 2, 2026 (Sunday) | Outer Delhi Warriors vs Central Delhi Kings | 1:30 PM |
| 5 | August 2, 2026 (Sunday) | East Delhi Riders vs New Delhi Tigers | 7:00 PM |
| 6 | August 3, 2026 (Monday) | West Delhi Lions vs Purani Dilli 6 | 2:00 PM |
| 7 | August 3, 2026 (Monday) | Central Delhi Kings vs North Delhi Strikers | 7:00 PM |
| 8 | August 4, 2026 (Tuesday) | New Delhi Tigers vs Outer Delhi Warriors | 1:30 PM |
| 9 | August 4, 2026 (Tuesday) | South Delhi Superstarz vs West Delhi Lions | 7:00 PM |
| 10 | August 5, 2026 (Wednesday) | Purani Dilli 6 vs Central Delhi Kings | 1:30 PM |
| 11 | August 5, 2026 (Wednesday) | East Delhi Riders vs North Delhi Strikers | 7:00 PM |
| 12 | August 6, 2026 (Thursday) | South Delhi Superstarz vs Outer Delhi Warriors | 1:30 PM |
| 13 | August 6, 2026 (Thursday) | New Delhi Tigers vs Purani Dilli 6 | 7:00 PM |
| 14 | August 7, 2026 (Friday) | East Delhi Riders vs West Delhi Lions | 1:30 PM |
| 15 | August 7, 2026 (Friday) | Outer Delhi Warriors vs North Delhi Strikers | 7:00 PM |
| 16 | August 8, 2026 (Saturday) | Purani Dilli 6 vs South Delhi Superstarz | 1:30 PM |
| 17 | August 8, 2026 (Saturday) | Central Delhi Kings vs Outer Delhi Warriors | 7:00 PM |
| 18 | August 9, 2026 (Sunday) | North Delhi Strikers vs New Delhi Tigers | 1:30 PM |
| 19 | August 9, 2026 (Sunday) | South Delhi Superstarz vs Central Delhi Kings | 7:00 PM |
| 20 | August 10, 2026 (Monday) | West Delhi Lions vs East Delhi Riders | 1:30 PM |
| 21 | August 10, 2026 (Monday) | Purani Dilli 6 vs Outer Delhi Warriors | 7:00 PM |
| 22 | August 11, 2026 (Tuesday) | Central Delhi Kings vs New Delhi Tigers | 1:30 PM |
| 23 | August 11, 2026 (Tuesday) | West Delhi Lions vs North Delhi Strikers | 7:00 PM |
| 24 | August 12, 2026 (Wednesday) | East Delhi Riders vs South Delhi Superstarz | 7:00 PM |
| 25 | August 13, 2026 (Thursday) | Outer Delhi Warriors vs West Delhi Lions | 1:30 PM |
| 26 | August 13, 2026 (Thursday) | North Delhi Strikers vs Purani Dilli 6 | 7:30 PM |
| 27 | August 15, 2026 (Saturday) | New Delhi Tigers vs South Delhi Superstarz | 7:00 PM |
| 28 | August 16, 2026 (Sunday) | North Delhi Strikers vs Central Delhi Kings | 1:30 PM |
| 29 | August 16, 2026 (Sunday) | Outer Delhi Warriors vs Purani Dilli 6 | 7:00 PM |
| 30 | August 17, 2026 (Monday) | New Delhi Tigers vs East Delhi Riders | 1:30 PM |
| 31 | August 17, 2026 (Monday) | West Delhi Lions vs South Delhi Superstarz | 7:00 PM |
| 32 | August 18, 2026 (Tuesday) | Purani Dilli 6 vs North Delhi Strikers | 1:30 PM |
| 33 | August 18, 2026 (Tuesday) | East Delhi Riders vs Central Delhi Kings | 7:00 PM |
| 34 | August 19, 2026 (Wednesday) | North Delhi Strikers vs South Delhi Superstarz | 1:30 PM |
| 35 | August 19, 2026 (Wednesday) | New Delhi Tigers vs West Delhi Lions | 7:00 PM |
| 36 | August 21, 2026 (Friday) | Outer Delhi Warriors vs East Delhi Riders | 7:00 PM |
| 37 | August 22, 2026 (Saturday) | Central Delhi Kings vs West Delhi Lions | 7:00 PM |
| 38 | August 23, 2026 (Sunday) | North Delhi Strikers vs Outer Delhi Warriors | 7:00 PM |
| 39 | August 24, 2026 (Monday) | South Delhi Superstarz vs New Delhi Tigers | 7:00 PM |
| 40 | August 25, 2026 (Tuesday) | Purani Dilli 6 vs East Delhi Riders | 7:00 PM |
| 41 | August 26, 2026 (Wednesday) | TBC vs TBC (Qualifier 1) | 1:30 PM |
| 42 | August 26, 2026 (Wednesday) | TBC vs TBC (Eliminator) | 7:00 PM |
| 43 | August 28, 2026 (Friday) | TBC vs TBC (Qualifier 2) | 7:00 PM |
| 44 | August 30, 2026 (Sunday) | TBC vs TBC (Remaining) | 8:00 PM |
Delhi Premier League T20 2026: Squads
Central Delhi Kings: Kuldip Yadav, Yash Dhull (c), Vansh Bedi, Divij Mehra, Cash Grewal, Jonty Sidhu, Aayush Kumar, Vedant Sehwag, Yatish Singh, Yugal Saini, Aditya Bhandari, Siddharth Joon, Keshav Dabas, Aatrey Tripathi, Arun Pundir, Aryaveer Kohli, Gavnish Khurana, Jasvir Sehrawat, Tejas Baroka, Ojasdeep Singh, Samarth Singh, Rahul Rakesh Yadav, Abhishek Kumar Yadav, Prathmesh Singh and Jai Sharma.
East Delhi Riders: Simarjeet Singh, Mayank Yadav (c), Mayank Rawat, Arpit Rana, Dhruv Kaushik, Rounak Waghela, Hardik Sharma, Sujal Rajiv Singh, Tanmay Chaudhary, Aradhya Chawla, Rohan Parchanda, Vansh Jetly, Yashwardhan Oberai, Deepak Punia, Ashish Meena, Kavya Gupta, Rohit Yadav, Vaibhav Baisla, Uday Chawla, Sunny Rawal, Suryansh Raina, Ankit Kumar, Vansh Mehra, Suryakant Chauhan and Harsh Bhardwaj.
New Delhi Tigers: Himmat Singh (c), Prince Yadav, Hritik Shokeen, Rahul Chaudhary, Lakshay Thareja, Vaibhav Rawal, Atulya Pandey, Dhruv Bindra, Laxman, Pradyuman Sanan, Aaryan Sharma, Keshav R. Singh, Manish Sehrawat, Parikshit Singh Bhati, Parth Kr. Bali, Shivam Gupta, Varun Vanjani, Tanuj Pawar, Rishabh Sharma, Revaant Rakyan, Saurabh Gupta, Yashjeet, Ayush Tanwar, Aditya Paweriya and Dev Chaudhary.
North Delhi Strikers: Harshit Rana, Sarthak Ranjan (c), Pranav Rajvanshi, Vaibhav Kandpal, Aayush Singh, Akhil Chaudhary, Arnav Bugga, Kirit Kaushik, Saurabh Deswal, Yash Bhatia, Parnit Tiwari, Prikshit Sehrawat, Arjun Rapria, Kaushal Suman, Vikas Dixit, Yash Dabas, Mayank Dagar, Bharat Sindhwani, Ajay Yadav, Anant Jain, Gaurav Sabharwal and Nikhil Kumar.
Outer Delhi Warriors: Navdeep Saini, Priyansh Arya (c), Aryan Rana, Harsh Tyagi, Shivam Sharma, Siddhant Sharma, Anant S. Sareen, Dhanya Nakra, Mohit Panwar, Saksham Gahlot, Shaurya Malik, Aman Chaudhary, Rushal Saini, Yajas Sharma, Dhruv Singh, Rishab Drall, Aditya Sharma, Akshay Saini, Monu Shukla, Pratham Saluja, Sammar Kohar, Garvit Grover, Shivam Bhan, Deepanshu Phore and Aditya Yadav.
Purani Dilli 6: Anuj Rawat (c), Digvesh Rathi, Lalit Yadav, Rohan Rana, Samarth Seth, Dev Lakra, Kush Nagpal, Mohak Kumar, Rajneesh Dadar, Udhav Mohan, Prince Mishra, Yug Gupta, Aditya Malhotra, Ajay Ahlawat, Gaurav Saroha, Kabir Sachdeva, Pankaj Jaswal, Yash Kumar, Aryan Gaur, Aditya Verma, Ashwini Chillar, Lakshay Verma, Harshvardhan Phogat, Vanam Aggarwal and Arjun Rexwal.
South Delhi Superstarz: Ayush Badoni (c), Tejasvi Dahiya, Sanat Sangwan, Sumit Kumar, Sumit Mathur, Pranshu Vijayran, Aman Bharti, Divansh Rawat, Karan Garg, Pranav Pant, Anmol Sharma, Vivek Kumar Tiwari, Adviteeya Sinha, Ankur Kaushik, Anshuman Hooda, Deepanshu Gulia, Ekansh Dobal, Sagar Tanwar, Imaginative and prescient Panchal, Yamit Sehrawat, Ankit Dabas, Tushar Duggal, Kartik Yadav, Rishabh Sharma and Raghav Agarwal.
West Delhi Lions: Nitish Rana (c), Suyash Sharma, Kulwant Khejroliya, Ayush Doseja, Manan Bhardwaj, Mayank Gusain, Aaryavir Sehwag, Ankit Rajesh Kumar, Dhruv Kumar Chumbak, Krish Yadav, Ravneet Tanwar, Rudra Dev Yadav, Aarav Garg, Shubham Dubey, Ajay Rana, Anirudh Chowdhary, Hiten Dalal, Jitesh Singh, Tishant Dabla, Vikas Rana, Bhanu Yadav, Sombir Sheokand, Yash Bansal, Avinash Singh Manhas and Khushhal Yadav.
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Delhi Premier League T20 2026: Venue
All matches of the boys’s and girls’s tournaments shall be performed on the Arun Jaitley Stadium, New Delhi, persevering with the custom of internet hosting the complete competitors at a single venue.
Delhi Premier League T20 2026: Broadcast and Reside Streaming particulars
Cricket followers can watch the Delhi Premier League T20 2026 dwell on the Star Sports activities Community on tv. Reside streaming of each match shall be obtainable on JioHotstar and FanCode, permitting followers to observe the event throughout cell gadgets, laptops and good TVs from July 31 onwards.
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