DLF-IPL-4 - Teams, schedule and venues

So after the successful and tense world cup the Indians are all set to watch the players from national and international arena in DLF IPL season 4. Yes, IPL season 4 is getting strated on 8th-April with all new team compositions after last year's fresh bidding. Few senior Indian players though requested two week's rest before participating in IPL. Now, it depends on the Franchises, where they are willing to give rest to the players after paying them staggering signing fees.

Last year's winner's Chennai Suprkings look the solid most team, both by balling and batting point of view and they will be more charged up as MS Dhoni is their skipper.

Here are the team compositions:

Chennai Super Kings Squad for DLF IPL4:

MS Dhoni (Cap), Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Michael Hussey, Scott Styris, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Albie Morkel, Tim Southee, Subramaniam Badrinath, George Bailey, Doug Bollinger, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Ben Hilfenhaus, Shadab Jakati, Joginder Sharma, Suraj Randiv, Nuwan Kulasekara, Srikkanth Anirudha, Yo Mahesh, Sudeep Tyagi, Abhinav Mukund, Kuthethurshri Vasudevadas, Ganapathi Vignesh

Mumbai Indians Squad for DLF IPL4:

Sachin Tendulkar (Cap), Kieron Pollard, Andrew Symonds, Rohit Sharma, James Franklin, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga, Munaf Patel, Davy Jacobs, Clint McKay, ADilhara Fernando, Ambati Rayudu, Dhawal Kulkarni, Ali Murtaza, Abu Nechim, Aiden Blizzard, Yuzvendra Chahal, Moises Henriques, Sarul Kanwar, Rajagopal Sathish, Tirumalasetti Suman, Pawan Suyal, Aditya Tare (wk), Santosh Yadav, Suryakumar Yadav

Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad for DLF IPL4:

Daniel Vettori (Cap), Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Saurabh Tiwary, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mohammad Kaif, Abhimanyu Mithun, Zaheer Khan, Charl Langeveldt, Dirk Nannes, Ryan Ninan, Asad Pathan, Luke Pomersbach, Rilee Rossouw, Johan van der Wath, Jonathan Vandiar, Mayank Agarwal, Sreenath Aravind, Arun Karthik, BN Bharath, Raju Bhatkal, Abrar Kazi, Nuwan Pradeep, Muralidharen Gautam

Delhi Daredevils Bangalore Squad for DLF IPL4:

Virender Sehwag (Cap), David Warner, Naman Ojha (wk), Irfan Pathan, James Hopes, Colin Ingram, Andrew McDonald, Morne Morkel, Roelof van der Merwe, Venugopal Rao, Umesh Yadav, Ajit Agarkar, Varun Aaron, Travis Birt, Robin Bist, Unmukt Chand, Ajit Chandila, Ashok Dinda , Aaron Finch, Robert Frylinckl, Yogesh Nagar, Rajesh Pawar, Aavishkar Salvi, Sridharan Sriram, Vikas Mishra, Matthew Wade, Tejashwi Yadav, Vivek Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem, Prashant Naik

Kolkata Knight Riders Bangalore Squad for DLF IPL4:

Gautam Gambhir (Cap), Yusuf Pathan, Jacques Kallis, Brad Haddin (wk), Brett Lee, Shakib Al Hasan, Eoin Morgan, Jaidev Unadkat, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Iqbal Abdulla, Sarabjit Ladda, Rajat Bhatia, Manvinder Bisla, Shreevats Goswami, James Pattinson, Pradeep Sangwan, Shami Ahmed, Laxmi Shukla, Ryan ten Doeschate, Manoj Tiwary

Deccan Chargers Squad for DLF IPL4:

Kumar Sangakkara (Cap/wk), Kevin Pietersen, Cameron White, Jean-Paul Duminy, Shikhar Dhawan, Michael Lumb, Ishant Sharma, Dale Steyn, Rusty Theron, Pragyan Ojha, Amit Mishra, Ashish Reddy, Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, Akash Bhandari, Bharat Chipli, Daniel Christian, Kedar Devdhar, Manpreet Gony, Harmeet Singh, Ishank Jaggi, Chris Lynn, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Jaydev Shah, Sunny Sohal, Arjun Yadav, Ishan Malhotra

Kings XI Punjab Squad for DLF IPL4:

Adam Gilchrist (Cap/wk), Shaun Marsh, David Hussey, Stuart Broad, Piyush Chawla, Ryan Harris, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Praveen Kumar, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Abhishek Nayar, Ryan McLaren, Love Ablish, Siddharth Chitnis, Vikramjeet Malik, Nathan Rimmington, Nitin Saini, Shalabh Srivastava, Sunny Singh, Amit Yadav, Bhargav Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Paras Dogra, Paul Valthaty

Rajasthan Royals Squad for DLF IPL4:

Shane Warne (Cap), Shane Watson, Ross Taylor, Shaun Tait, Rahul Dravid, Paul Collingwood, Johan Botha, Swapnil Asnodkar, Deepak Chahar, Aakash Chopra, Aditya Dole, Ashok Menaria, Pankaj Singh, Ajinkya Rahane, Abhishek Raut, Siddharth Trivedi, Dishant Harendra Yagnik, Ankeet Chavan, Nayan Doshi, Samad Fallah, Dinesh Salunkhe, Amit Singh, Stuart Binny, Deepak Chahar, Faiz Fazal, Sumit Narwal, Amit Paunikar, Pinal Shah

Pune Warriors Squad for DLF IPL4:

Yuvraj Singh (Cap), Robin Uthappa, Graeme Smith, Jesse Ryder, Callum Ferguson, Murali Kartik, Ashish Nehra, Nathan McCullum, Angelo Mathews, Wayne Parnell, Jerome Taylor, Tim Paine (wk), Dheeraj Jadhav, Ganesh Gaikwad, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Kamran Khan, Harshad Khadiwale, Mitchell Marsh, Shrikant Mundhe, Alfonso Thomas, Eklavya Dwivedi, Mohnish Mishra, Manish Pandey, Sachin Rana, Rahul Sharma, Imtiyaz Ahmed, Harpreet Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mithun Manhas, Shrikant Wagh

Kochi Tuskers Kerala (IPL Kochi) Squad for DLF IPL4:

Mahela Jayawardene (Cap), Brendon McCullum, Michael Klinger, Owais Shah, VVS Laxman, Brad Hodge, Steve O'Keefe, Ravindra Jadeja, Balachandra Akhil, Deepak Chougule, Gnaneswara Rao, Raiphi Gomez, Parthiv Patel (wk), Muttiah Muralitharan, John Hastings, Sreesanth, Thisara Perera, Ramesh Powar, RP Singh, Steven Smith, Kedar Jadhav, Chandan Madan, Sushant Marathe, Prasanth Padmanabhan

 IPL season 4, 2011  -- Schedule

Apr 8, 8PM --  Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai
Apr 9, 4PM  -- Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royals, Hyderabad
Apr 9, 8PM --  Kochi v Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kochi
Apr 10, 4PM -- Delhi Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians, Delhi
Apr 10, 8PM -- Pune Warriors vs Kings XI Punjab, Navi Mumbai
Apr 11, 8PM -- Kolkata Knight Riders vs Deccan Chargers, Kolkata
Apr 12, 4PM -- Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils, Jaipur
Apr 12, 8PM -- Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians, Bangalore
Apr 13, 4PM -- Pune Warriors vs Kochi Navi, Mumbai
Apr 13, 8PM -- Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings, Mohali
Apr 14, 8PM -- Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Hyderabad
Apr 15, 4PM -- Mumbai Indians v Kochi, Mumbai
Apr 15, 8PM -- Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders, Delhi
Apr 16, 4PM -- Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore, Chennai
Apr 16, 8PM -- Deccan Chargers v Kings XI Punjab, Hyderabad
Apr 17, 4PM -- Rajasthan v Kolkata Knight Riders, Jaipur
Apr 17, 8PM -- Pune Warriors v Delhi Daredevils, Navi Mumbai
Apr 18, 8PM -- Kochi v Chennai Super Kings, Kochi
Apr 19, 4PM -- Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers, Delhi
Apr 19, 8PM -- Royal Challengers Bangalore v Rajasthan Royals, Bangalore
Apr 20, 4PM -- Mumbai Indians v Pune Warriors, Mumbai
Apr 20, 8PM -- Kolkata Knight Riders v Kochi, Kolkata
Apr 21, 8PM -- Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals, Mohali
Apr 22, 8PM -- Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai
Apr 23, 4PM -- Kolkata Knight Riders v Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kolkata
Apr 23, 8PM -- Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab, Delhi
Apr 24, 4PM -- Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians, Hyderabad
Apr 24, 8PM -- Rajasthan Royals v Kochi, Jaipur
Apr 25, 8PM -- Chennai Super Kings v Pune Warriors, Chennai
Apr 26, 8PM . Delhi Daredevils v Royal Challengers Bangalore, Delhi
Apr 27, 4PM -- Pune Warriors v Chennai Super Kings, Navi Mumbai
Apr 27, 8PM -- Kochi v Deccan Chargers, Kochi
Apr 28, 4PM -- Kolkata Knight Riders v Kings XI Punjab, Kolkata
Apr 28, 8PM -- Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians, Jaipur
Apr 29, 8PM -- Royal Challengers Bangalore v Pune, Bangalore
Apr 30, 4PM -- Kochi v Delhi Daredevils, Kochi
Apr 30, 8PM -- Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab, Mumbai
May 1, 4PM -- Rajasthan Royals v Pune Warriors, Jaipur
May 1, 8PM -- Chennai Super Kings v Deccan Chargers, Chennai
May 2, 8PM -- Delhi Daredevils v Kochi, Delhi
May 3, 8PM -- Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders, Hyderabad
May 4, 4PM -- Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals, Chennai
May 4, 8PM -- Pune Warriors v Mumbai Indians, Navi Mumbai
May 5, 4PM -- Kochi v Kolkata Knight Riders, Kochi
May 5, 8PM -- Deccan Chargers v Delhi Daredevils, Hyderabad
May 6, 8PM -- Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kings XI Punjab, Bangalore
May 7, 4PM -- Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata
May 7, 8PM -- Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils, Mumbai
May 8, 4PM -- Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kochi, Bangalore
May 8, 8PM -- Kings XI Punjab v Pune Warriors, Mohali
May 9, 8PM -- Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings, Jaipur
May 10, 4PM -- Kings XI Punjab v Mumbai Indians, Mohali
May 10, 8PM -- Deccan Chargers v Pune Warriors, Hyderabad
May 11, 8PM -- Rajasthan Royals v Royal Challengers Bangalore, Jaipur
May 12, 8PM -- Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils, Chennai
May 13, 8PM -- Kochi v Kings XI Punjab, Indore
May 14, 4PM -- Mumbai Indians v Deccan Chargers, Mumbai
May 14, 8PM -- Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kolkata Knight Riders, Bangalore
May 15, 4PM -- Kings XI Punjab v Delhi Daredevils, Dharamsala
May 15, 8PM -- Kochi v Rajasthan Royals, Indore
May 16, 8PM -- Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians, Kolkata
May 17, 8PM -- Pune Warriors v Deccan Chargers, Pune
May 18, 4PM -- Kings XI Punjab v Royal Challengers Bangalore, Dharamsala
May 18, 8PM -- Chennai Super Kings v Kochi, Chennai
May 19, 8PM -- Pune Warriors v Kolkata Knight Riders, Pune
May 20, 8PM -- Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals, Mumbai
May 21, 4PM -- Kings XI Punjab v Deccan Chargers, Dharamsala
May 21, 8PM -- Delhi Daredevils v Pune Warriors, Delhi
May 22, 4PM -- Royal Challengers Bangalore v Chennai Super Kings, Bangalore
May 22, 8PM -- Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals, Kolkata
May 24, 8PM -- Qualifier 1, Mumbai
May 25, 8PM -- Eliminator, Mumbai
May 27, 8PM -- Qualifier 2, Chennai
May 28, 8PM -- Final Chennai

All the teams look strong on papers and are blend of youth and experience. Chennai superkings, who won both champions league and IPL season 3 trophy looks the most balanced team and obviously they have the Dhoni magic with them.