 The winner of Final was crowned as the IPL champions.The fixtures for this season were released on 14 February with the SunRisers Hyderabad playing their first match against the Rajasthan Royals on 9 April at their home ground in Hyderabad.On 28 March, David Warner resigned as the captain of the SunRisers Hyderabad in the aftermath of a ball-tampering scandal in South Africa.