IPL 2025 to resume on May 17, final on June 3

IPL 2025 volition resume connected May 17 and extremity connected June 3, arsenic per the revised docket announced by the BCCI connected Monday night.

The remainder of the tournament, which was suspended connected May 9 for a week owed to cross-border tensions betwixt India and Pakistan, volition beryllium played astatine six venues: Bengaluru, Jaipur, Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

The venues for the playoffs volition beryllium announced later, but the matches volition beryllium played connected the pursuing dates: Qualifier 1 connected May 29, the Eliminator connected May 30, Qualifier 2 connected June 1 and the last connected June 3. A full of 17 matches volition beryllium played aft the resumption, with 2 double-headers, some of which volition beryllium played connected Sundays.

The revised docket features 13 league games and the 4 playoff matches. This means that the Punjab Kings (PBKS) vs Delhi Capitals (DC) game, which was called disconnected midway done the archetypal innings connected May 8 successful Dharamsala, volition beryllium played again, connected May 24 successful Jaipur, which volition beryllium the impermanent location basal for PBKS.

Two days later, PBKS volition play against Mumbai Indians (MI), a lucifer they were primitively meant to play successful their 2nd location basal of Dharamsala connected May 11. The lucifer that volition restart the tourney connected May 17 volition beryllium played betwixt Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) successful Bengaluru.

On the archetypal of the 2 double-header days, Rajasthan Royals (RR) volition conscionable PBKS successful the time crippled (3.30pm IST) connected May 18 and DC volition instrumentality connected Gujarat Titans (GT) successful the evening (7.30pm IST). The adjacent Sunday - May 25 - volition spot GT instrumentality connected Chennai Super Kings (CSK) successful the time crippled successful Ahmedabad and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) conscionable KKR successful Delhi astatine 7.30pm IST. The past league crippled volition beryllium betwixt Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and RCB connected May 27 successful Lucknow.

The alteration successful venues besides means that 3 teams - PBKS, CSK and SRH - won't get to play connected their archetypal location grounds anymore. With CSK and SRH retired of the playoffs race, PBKS volition number themselves unlucky to beryllium playing 2 of their location matches astatine a neutral venue. With 15 points from 11 matches, PBKS were 3rd connected the points table earlier the tourney was suspended.

The authoritative merchandise said the BCCI held "extensive consultations with authorities and information agencies, and with each the cardinal stakeholders" earlier finalising the resumption of the tournament.

The delayed decorativeness of the IPL, which was primitively scheduled to extremity connected May 25 successful Kolkata, means it volition present coincide with the full ODI bid betwixt England and West Indies starting connected May 29 successful Birmingham and ending connected June 3 astatine The Oval. It volition pb to a clash for Romario Shepherd (RCB), Shamar Joseph (LSG) and Sherfane Rutherford (GT), who person each been picked successful the West Indies ODI squad. England person not named their squad yet but the players apt to beryllium affected are Jos Buttler (GT), Phil Salt (RCB), Jacob Bethell (RCB), Liam Livingstone (RCB), Will Jacks (MI) and Reece Topley (MI), depending connected which teams marque the playoffs.

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The revised IPL docket besides squeezes the spread betwixt the IPL last and the WTC final to conscionable 7 days, with Australia and South Africa acceptable to contention the Test satellite rubric from June 11 astatine Lord's. Both Australia and South Africa are scheduled to denote their squads connected Tuesday. The players who are presently portion of the IPL teams and are apt to beryllium picked for the WTC last are Australia skipper Pat Cummins and Travis Head (both SRH), Mitchell Starc and Tristan Stubbs (both DC), Josh Hazlewood (RCB), Marco Jansen and Josh Inglis (both PBKS), Aiden Markram (LSG), Kagiso Rabada (GT), Ryan Rickelton (MI) and Kwena Mphaka (RR).

The revised docket volition besides perchance interaction the India A circuit of England, which is scheduled to statesman from May 30, for 2 unofficial Tests successful Canterbury and Northampton. Several fringe India players, immoderate of whom are apt to beryllium portion of the India squad for the five-Test bid starting connected June 20 successful England, volition present beryllium portion of the IPL erstwhile the A matches begin.

For now, the biggest situation for the 10 IPL franchises volition beryllium to re-assemble their squads and bring backmost overseas players and support-staff members who had begun flying backmost location implicit the weekend. The squad that could find it easiest to get backmost unneurotic volition beryllium GT, presently connected apical of the table, who had seen lone 2 of their overseas players alert back: Buttler and Gerald Coetzee. The remainder of their squad was ...