New Delhi
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday announced that the Indian Premier League 2022 season will get underway on March 26 and the final will be played on May 29. The 10-team season in IPL 2022 will have 74 matches, including 70 league stage matches which will be played across four venues in Mumbai and Pune.
BCCI secretary Jay Shah confirmed the schedule for IPL 2022 after the IPL Governing Council Meeting which was held virtually on Thursday.
The BCCI said IPL 2022 will be played in a bio-secure environment and the decision to pick only two host cities was taken to “avoid air travel which is considered as a major threat for the spread of Covid-19 infection, thereby affecting the players and the League/matches.”
The 10 teams will play a total of 14 league matches (7 home matches and 7 away matches) totalling to 70 league matches, followed by the 4 playoff matches. Each team will play 5 teams twice and the remaining 4 teams only once (2 only home and 2 only away).
The venues for the play-offs and the final will be decided on a later date, the BCCI added.
The 10 teams have been drawn into 2 groups 5 each. Mumbai Indians headline Group A while Chennai Super Kings are headlining Group B. To decide on the above, teams have been assigned in two virtual groups based on the number of IPL Championships won followed by the number of Final matches played by the respective teams.
IPL 2022 league stages will witness
- 4 matches each at Wankhede Stadium and DY Patil Stadium.
- 3 matches each at Brabourne Stadium (CCI) and MCA International Stadium, Pune.
- IPL changes format: 10 teams divided in two groups of five; each team to play 14 games
New Delhi
The 2022 Indian Premier League will see a tweak in format as 10 teams will be divided into groups of five but the number of matches per side will remain 14.
As per groupings released by BCCI on Friday, group A comprises Mumbai Indians, KKR, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Supergiants.
The group B will have Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Punjab Kings and Gujarat Titans.
Over the years, the IPL has been an eight-team affair where each team played each other twice at the round robin league stage to complete 14 games.
However this group league format is not new in IPL as it was once used a decade back when Pune Warriors and Kochi Tuskers Kerala were part of the league.
Ready Reckoner for Format The rows and columns of the groups (A and B. has been done as per IPL performances — number of titles and number of finals reached.
Firstly, the groupings have been done as per IPL performance where group A has MI (Team 1) with five titles as first team. Correspondingly, in group B. the first team is CSK (Team 2) which has four titles.
Team 3 is again placed in group A and that is KKR with two titles and the corresponding Team 4 placed in group B is SRH with a sole title.
Team 5 again in group A is Rajasthan Royals (1 title) and its corresponding Team 6 in group B is RCB, which has played three finals.
Team 7 in group A is DC, which has one final appearance and two play-offs while corresponding Team 8 in group B is Punjab Kings with one final appearance.
Newcomers, Lucknow Super Giants is Team 9 in group A and Gujarat Titans is corresponding team 10 in group B.
How each plays 14 games Each team plays the other teams in its group twice, which makes it eight matches.
The balance six games they play against the five teams in the other group.
So for MI from group A will pay two games CSK which is its equivalent team in group B and one match against the other four teams. Similarly KKR, the second placed team in A plays SRH in group B twice and all other teams once.
This is how teams attain (8+6) 14 group league games.
