IPL 2026 weekend schedule: The new season begins! Check the game, venue

IPL 2026 is set to get off to a roaring start this weekend, with champion teams and star players kicking off the new season in front of fans around the world. Here’s the opening weekend schedule, along with game details and venues.RCB vs SRH: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru – March 28 (Saturday)Sunrisers Hyderabad will take on defending champions Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, with the match starting at 7:30 pm (IST). The last time the two sides met at this venue was in 2024, when SRH posted a record-breaking highest total of 287/3 in the IPL. The match ended with SRH winning and also witnessed the highest total score in the history of IPL with a total of 549 runs. The head-to-head record between RCB and SRH at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium is that RCB has won 5 out of 8 games and SRH has won 3 times.RCB predictions for match 12: Virat KohliPhil Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (C), Jitesh Sharma (WK), Tim David, Romario Shephard, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Jacob Duffy, Suyash Sharma (Impact Player) SRH predicted match 12: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (C), Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Liam Livingston, Aniket Verma, Harsh Dubey, Harshal Patel, Eshan Malinga, Jaydev Unadkat Impact – Zeeshan AnsariMI vs KKR: mumbai indians and Kolkata Knight RidersWankhede Stadium, Mumbai – March 29 (Sunday)Three-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders will take on five-time champions Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium, with the match starting at 7:30 pm IST. The last time these two teams met in Mumbai, MI won by 8 wickets on March 31, 2025. Debutant Ashwani Kumar took 4/24 to knock KKR to 116 before Ryan Rickelton’s unbeaten 62 off 41 balls helped MI chase down the target with 43 balls remaining to secure their first win of the 2025 season. Mumbai Indians (MI) maintained their 10-2 record in 12 matches with a win over Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Wankhede Stadium. MI Predicted Match 12: Rohit SharmaQuinton de Kock (WK), Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav, Will Jacks, Hardik Pandya, Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Shardul Thakur (IMP)KKR Prediction for Match 12: Finn Allen, Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Cameron Green, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi, Blessing Muzarabani, Umran Malik (Imp)