IPL season 5 to have 75 games and will start from April 4

The fifth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will see the nine franchise playing 16 matches for a total of 75 games. The season will commence in Chennai, April 4 and Play-off matches will be held in Bangalore and Chennai, with the final to be played in Chennai, May 27.
The 2012 Player Auction will be held in India in late January or early February. Each franchise will have an Auction Purse of USD 2million to spend on players in the 2012 auction.

For the 2012 and 2013 seasons, the maximum squad size will be increased to 33, and the cap on the number of overseas players in the squad increased to 11.

The regulation that only four overseas players may be in the playing XI is unchanged.

There will be a short second trading window after the Player Auction.

The trading regulations will be as per previous seasons. There will be no financial cap on trading. Franchises can only add to their squad, by way of trading, a maximum of 4 players who were bought in the 2011 Auction, and they must stay within the squad composition regulations at all times.