IPL to resume from this Saturday with the Finals on June 3rd and the remainder of the tournament to take in 6 cities.
IPL to resume on May 17, with the rest of the tournament will be played at six venues.
Bengaluru, Jaipur, Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai, and Ahmedabad will host the remaining matches of the tournament, which was temporarily halted on May 9 owing to cross-border tensions between India and Pakistan. The playoff locations will be revealed later, but the dates of the matches are as follows: May 29 for the first qualifier, May 30 for the eliminator, June 1 for the second qualifier, and June 3 for the final. Two doubleheaders, both on Sundays, will be among the 17 games that will be played following the restart.
Thirteen league games and the four playoff games are included in the updated schedule. This means that on May 24, in Jaipur, which will serve as PBKS’s temporary home base, the Punjab Kings (PBKS) vs. Delhi Capitals (DC) match that was called off midway through the first innings on May 8 in Dharamsala would be played anew.
Originally scheduled to take place on May 11 at their second home base of Dharamsala, PBKS will play the Mumbai Indians (MI) two days later. Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will meet in Bengaluru in the match that will kick off the tournament on May 17.
Rajasthan Royals (RR) will play PBKS in the day match at 3.30 p.m. IST on May 18, and DC will play Gujarat Titans (GT) in the evening at 7.30 p.m. IST on the first of the two doubleheader days. The next Sunday, May 25, will see Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) play KKR in Delhi at 7:30 p.m. IST, while GT play Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in Ahmedabad during the day. On May 27, the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and RCB will play their final league match in Lucknow.
Three teams—PBKS, CSK, and SRH—will no longer be able to play on their original home grounds as a result of the venue change. PBKS will consider themselves unlucky to have two of their home games at a neutral location, as CSK and SRH are eliminated from the playoff race. Prior to the tournament’s suspension, PBKS was in third place with 15 points from 11 games.
The BCCI undertook “extensive consultations with government and security agencies, and with all the key stakeholders” prior to deciding to resume the competition, according to the official release.