IPL 2025: The league of IPL season 18 is now over and the tournament has now reached its most exciting stop playoffs. Performing brilliantly in the league stage, Punjab and Bengaluru have made their place in the top-2, while Gujarat and Mumbai have finished third and fourth. Now the playoff matches will start from May 29, the first match will be qualifier-1, where Punjab and Bengaluru will be face to face. After this, the high-voltage eliminator will be played on May 30, in which teams from Mumbai and Gujarat will clash.
Why do the teams tremble as soon as they hear the name of the eliminator?
Eliminator for Gujarat and Mumbai is not just a match, but a difficult test. Statistics show that it has happened only once in IPL history when the team playing the eliminator has won the title, and that year was 2016. That year Sunrisers Hyderabad had done this feat.
In that season playoffs were teams from Gujarat Lions, RCB, Kolkata Knight Riders and Hyderabad. In the eliminator, SRH defeated Kolkata, then defeated Gujarat Lions in Qualifier-2 and made it to the finals. SRH, captained by David Warner in the final, won the title by defeating RCB by 8 runs.
Since then, no team has been able to reach the trophy by starting with the eliminator. This is the reason that this time there will be tremendous pressure on Gujarat and Mumbai.
Know the playoff’s format league stage top-2 teams play qualifier-1. Teams number third and fourth clash in eliminator. The Qualifier-1 winning team reaches the finals directly. The qualifier-1 losing team gets another chance, he confronts the winning team of Eliminator in Qualifier-2. The Qualifier-2 winning team becomes the second contender for the final.
IPL playoff schedule (IPL 2025 Playoffs Schedule)
It will now be interesting to see if the Gujarat Titans or Mumbai Indians are able to repeat history in 2025, or the ‘classical misfortune’ of the teams playing eliminator continues this time too.
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