Mumbai: The Vivo Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 resumes on 19 September with the five-time champions and current title holders Mumbai Indians taking on three-time IPL champions Chennai Super Kings at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. 

The spectators will be allowed back to the stadiums after a brief hiatus owing to Covid-19, the league announced on Wednesday. Fans can buy tickets starting 16 September for the remainder of the tournament on the IPL website and PlatinumList.net.

The IPL, which was suspended in early May, will now be played at three venues in the UAE: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah with limited seating available keeping in mind the Covid-19 protocols and UAE government regulations.

This is the second edition of the IPL to be played during the pandemic. In 2020, too, the BCCI had shifted the IPL to the UAE where the entire tournament was played behind closed doors.

This year's IPL which started in India on 9 April, also behind closed doors, was suspended indefinitely on 3 May after several members from four different franchises at two different venues tested positive for Covid-19. Twenty-nine matches were played in the first phase before IPL 2021 went into a Covid-forced postponement.