Introduction
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) were the first team to qualify for the playoffs for the end of the season games, trailed by the early speed setters Rajasthan Royals, who are going through a touch of downturn. SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) additionally reserved their spot in the end of the season games recently in the wake of being one point for their cleaned out game against the Gujarat Titans.
IPL 2024 Playoffs Full Schedule
Qualifier 1: The first match of the playoffs will be held between two-time champions KKR and 2016 winners SRH
Date: May 21 | Time: 7:30 PM IST |
Venue: Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
Eliminator: The teams finishing 3rd and 4th in the points table square off in the Eliminator. In this fixture, RCB will face off against one-time champions RR who are led by Sanju Samson.
Date: May 22 | Time: 7:30 PM IST |
Venue: Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
Qualifier 2: The team that loses Qualifier 1 gets another chance to qualify for the final through Qualifier 2. One of KKR and SRH will face the winners of the Eliminator (RCB or RR) in the Qualifier 2. The winner of this match will face the winner of Qualifier 1 in the final.
Date: May 24 | Time: 7:30 PM IST |
Venue: Chepauk, Chennai
IPL 2024 Final:
The title decider will be held between the winner of Qualifier 1 and Qualifier 2. Among the four teams that have qualified for the playoffs, only RCB haven’t gone on to win the title yet. They would be hoping to do so in what could be their fourth IPL final.
Date: May 26 | Time: 7:30 PM IST |
Venue: Chepauk, Chennai
Format
The teams that are set first and second in the IPL 2024 focuses table (KKR and SRH) will take on one another in
Qualifier 1. The winner of that match gets immediate capability for the last, while the washout has one more opportunity at arriving at the title conflict.
The washout of Qualifier 1 will play the winner of Eliminator (RCB and RR) in Qualifier 2. The winner of Eliminator advances to Qualifier 2, though the washout of that game gets wiped out totally. The winner of Qualifier 2 then advances to the final, where they will clash against the champ of Qualifier 1.
Match No | Teams | Venue | Date | Timing |
Qualifier 1 | KKR vs SRH | Ahmedabad | May 21 | 7: 30 PM |
Eliminator | RR vs RCB | Ahmedabad | May 22 | 7: 30 PM |
Qualifier 2 | TBD vs TBD | Chennai | May 24 | 7: 30 PM |
IPL 2024 Final | TBD vs TBD | Chennai | May 26 | 7: 30 PM |
Here’s how each team qualified:
On May 11, Kolkata Knight Riders became the first team to qualify for the IPL 2024 Playoffs at the Eden Gardens by defeating Mumbai Indians by 18 runs.
Rajasthan Royals
Rajasthan Royals qualified after Lucknow Super Goliaths were crushed by the Delhi Capitals on May 14 which essentially removed LSG from contention of the end of the season games.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
After their match against Gujarat Titans was postponed on May 16 due to incessant rain in Hyderabad, Sunrisers Hyderabad became the third team to make the playoffs.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
In their final league game at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on May 18, Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Chennai Super Kings by 27 runs to advance to the playoffs.
To fit the bill for the End of the season games in spite of a loss in this match, CSK needed to guarantee a loss by something like 17 runs.
In spite of their predictable misfortunes, RCB made the capability conceivable through their predominant Net Run Rate (NRR) – the sudden death round in the event of equivalent places and wins for the four groups.
The NRR at the end was +0.459 for RCB, followed by +0.392 for CSK, -0.377 for DC, and -0.667 for LSG.
The weather conditions has played spoilsport in three matches in the association stage as most pieces of the nation have seen downpour over the course of the past week. Also, the nasty weather conditions might really affect the essential matches in IPL 2024.
Weather condition for Ahmedabad and Chennai
The figure says there is clear climate with radiant days all through the week in Ahmedabad. In point of fact, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) stated that over the next five days, heatwave conditions are likely to prevail in parts of Gujarat, including Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad.
In Chennai, be that as it may, there is a gauge for downpour and rainstorms ahead of the pack up to the match days with sunny mornings anticipated from Friday (May 24) to Sunday (May 26).
IPL 2024 Playoff result in case of rain
Not at all like the past releases when there was a hold day just for the last, there is a safe day for all the four IPL 2024 season finisher matches. If the minimum number of overs cannot be bowled, the match will resume from where it left off or from scratch if no balls were bowled on the reserve day. The save day in the event of the IPL 2024 season finisher matches, is the exceptionally following day of the planned match.
Is there any extra time available to complete playoff match
Each playoff match can take an additional 120 minutes in accordance with the IPL’s playing rules. A season finisher match could begin the first day as late as 9.40pm without the quantity of overs being diminished (brief span, breaks held).
If there is no result possible despite playoff match
If the playoff – the qualifier 1, eliminator, qualifier 2 and last – additionally get cleaned out on the save day, and no outcome is conceivable then the champ of the particular match will be resolved in view of where they completed on the focuses table.
According to the IPL’s playing rules:
Assuming any of the Last, the Eliminator, Qualifier 1 or Qualifier 2 matches are tied, or there is no outcome,
The accompanying will apply: 16.11.1 the important groups will contend in a Really Finished and if essential further Super Overs to figure out which group is the champ of the match being referred to;
16.11.2 In the event that the conditions do not permit a Super Over or subsequent Super Overs within the allotted time to determine the winner, the team that finished the season in the top spot in the League table will be deemed to have won the play-off match in question.
That is, the team that finished higher on the points table will advance to the subsequent rounds if the Qualifiers and Eliminators are washed out or abandoned because of the weather.
KKR Team Squad
Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy
SRH Team Squad
Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (WK), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sanvir Singh, Pat Cummins (C), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande
Conclusion
KKR are top choices. There is very little to pick between groups regarding quality, nonetheless, we feel that KKR have a superior bowling assault. KKR’s victory or defeat could be decided by the presence of Narine and Chakravarthy. The spinners have been in extraordinary structure and we question in the event that SRH can direct terms against Narine and Chakravarthy at Narendra Modi Arena pitch which has become supportive for spinners.