Salman Khan and Sudeep are excited to see Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) 2023 back in action after three years. The first two matches of this season were played on Saturday, February 18.

Starting in 2011, the CCL 2023 edition is set to witness eight teams from eight regional Indian cinema industries. Telugu Warriors and Chennai Rhinos locked the horns each other with Kerala Strikers and Karnataka Bulldozers, respectively. A total of 19 matches will be played before the grand finale, which will be played on March 19.

Vishnu Vardhan Induri, the founder of CCL, tweeted, “Excited to bring @CCL back in action. Celebrity Cricket League, the Biggest Pan India Sportainment Event starts Today. 8 Teams from 8 Languages, 5 Weekends, 19 Games, Live on 9 TV Channels. @zeecorporate @punitgoenka #CCL2023 #MumbaiHeroes #CCLStartsToday.”

Kannada superstar Kichcha Sudeep tweeted, “Celebrity Cricket League, the Biggest Pan India Sportainment Event starts Today with a New Format of 2 Innings per team in #T20. 8 Teams from 8 Languages, 5 Weekends, 19 Games, Live on 9 TV Channels including ZeeAnmol Cinema and Zee Picchar  #CCL2023 #CCL #CCLStartsToday.”

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan tweeted, “So happy to see @CCL back in action. Celebrity Cricket League, the Biggest Pan India Sportainment Event starts Today. 8 Teams from 8 Languages, 5 Weekends, 19 Games, Live on 9 TV Channels. @cc @ZEECorporate @punitgoenka #CCL2023 #CCLStartsToday…. Best Wishes to #MumbaiHeroes.”

The CCL 2023 matches for this year will be held in Jaipur, Hyderabad, Raipur, Jodhpur, Bengaluru, and Thiruvananthapuram. Here is the full schedule, date, time and venue for this season.

Date      Time (IST)            City/State            Matches

18-Feb-23           14:30     Bangalore           Match 1: Telugu Warriors vs Kerala Strikers

18-Feb-23           19:00     Bangalore           Match 2: Chennai Rhinos vs Karnataka Bulldozers

19-Feb-23           14:30     Chandigarh         Match 3: Bengal Tigers vs Bhojpuri Dabanggs

19-Feb-23           19:00     Chandigarh         Match 4: Mumbai Heroes vs Pubjab De Sher

25-Feb-23           14:30     Jaipur    Match 5: Telugu Warriors vs Chennai Rhinos

25-Feb-23           19:00     Jaipur    Match 6: Bhojpuri Dabanggs vs Punjab De Sher

26-Feb-23           14:30     Jaipur    Match 7: Kerala Strikers vs Karnataka Bulldozers

26-Feb-23           19:00     Jaipur    Match 8: Mumbai Heroes vs Bengal Tigers

04-Mar-23          14:30     Hyderabad          Match 9: Chennai Rhinos vs Bhojpuri Dabbangs

04-Mar-23          19:00     Hyderabad          Match 10: Bengal Tigers vs Telugu Warriors

05-Mar-23          14:30     Trivandrum        Match 11: Karnataka Bulldozers vs Punjab De Sher

05-Mar-23          19:00     Trivandrum        Match 12: Mumbai Heroes vs Kerala Strikers

11-Mar-23          14:30     Chennai               Match 13: Bengal Tigers vs Karnataka Bulldozers

11-Mar-23          19:00     Chennai               Match 14: Mumbai Heroes vs Chennai Rhinos

12-Mar-23          14:30     Hyderabad          Match 15: Kerala Strikers vs Bhojpuri Dabbangs

12-Mar-23          19:00     Hyderabad          Match 16: Telugu Warriors vs Punjab De Sher

18-Mar-23          14:30     Hyderabad          Semi Final 1 vs Semi Final 4: SF1

18-Mar-23          19:00     Hyderabad          Semi Final 2 vs Semi Final 3: SF2

19-Mar-23          19:00     Hyderabad          Final Match

Where to watch CCL 2023 live in India?

Zee Entertainment has acquired the broadcasting rights of CCL 2023 and planned telecast these T20 matches in 9 languages on 9 channels.

Zee Anmol Cinema – Hindi

& Pictures – English

Zee Thirai – Tamil

Zee Cinemalu – Telugu

Zee Picchar – Kannada

Flowers TV – Malayalam

PTC Punjabi – Punjabi

Zee Bangla Cinema – Bangla

Zee Biskope – Bhojpuri

Karnataka Bulldozers

Pradeep, Rajeev H, Sudeep Kiccha, Suneel Rao, Jayram Karthik, Prathap, Prasanna, Shiva Rajkumar, Ganesh, Krishna, Sourav Lokesh, Chandan, Arjun Yogi, Nirup Bhandari, Nanda Kishore, and Sagar Gowda.

Bhojpuri Dabbangs

Manoj Tiwari, Ravi Kishan, Vikrant Singh, Aditya Ojha, Asgar Khan, Ayaz Khan, Jay Yadav, Vikas Singh Virappan, Ajhoy Sharma, Shailesh Sinha, Dinesh Lal Yadav, Parvesh Lal Yadav, Uday Tiwari, Anshuman Singh Rajpoot, Khesari Lal Yadav, Vikas Jha, Baivaw Rai, and Sudhir Singh.

Bengal Tigers

Uday, Indrasish, Mohan, Suman, Joy, Joe, Yusuf, Jeetu Kamal, Jammy, Ratnadip Ghosh, Ananda Chowdhury, Sandy, Aditya Roy Banerjee, Arman Ahamed, Manty, Rahul Mazumdar, Gaurav Chakrabarty, Boney, and Sourav Das.

Mumbai Heroes

Suniel Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani, Sohail Khan, Bobby Deol, Jay Bhanushali, Saqib Saleem, Shabir Ahluwalia, Raja Bherwani, Sharad Kelkar, Apoorva Lakhia, Sameer Kochar, Sidhant Muley, Madhav Deochake, Freddie Daruwala, Vatsal Sheth, Adarsh Balakrishna, Rajniesh Dugali, Nishant Dahiya, Navdeep Tomar, Sandeep Juwatkar, Jatin Sarna, and Amit Sial.

Chennai Rhinos

Arya, Vishnu Vishal, Jiiva, Vikranth, Shantanu, Prithivi, Ashok Selvan, Kalai Arasan, Mirchi Shiva, Bharath Niwas, Ramana, Satya, Dasarathan, Sharan, Aadhav, and Balasaravanan.

Kerala Strikers

Kunchacko Boban, Asif Ali, Rajeev Pillai, Unni Mukundam, Arjun Nandakumar, Indrajit Sukumaran, Siddharath Menon, Manikuttan, Vijay Yesudas, Shafeeq Rahman, Vivek Gopan, Saiju Kurup, Vinu Mohan, Nikhil K Menon, Prajod Kalabhavan, Antony Pepe, Jean Paul Lal, Sanju Shivaram, Siju Wilson, and Prashanth Alexander.

Punjab de Sher

Sonu Sood, Jimmy Shergil, Ayushmann Khurrana, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Binnu Dhillon, Jassie Gill, Rahul Dev, Gavie Chahal, Dev Kharoud, Gulzar Chahar, Babbal Rai, Aryaman Sapru, Navraj Hans, Yuvraj Hans, Mukul Dev, Arjan Bajwa, and Harmeet Singh.

Telugu Warriors

Akhil Akkineni, Sachin Joshi, Ashvin Babu, Dharam, Aadarsh, Nanda Kishore, Nikhil, Raghu, Samrat, Taraka Ratna, Tarun, Vishwa, Prince, Sushanth, Khayyum and Harish.