IPL 2025 will resume on May 17 and end on June 3, as the BCCI announced a revised schedule on Monday.
The remainder of the tournament, which was suspended on May 9 for a week due to cross-border tensions between India and Pakistan, will be played at six venues: Bengaluru, Jaipur, Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
The venues for the playoffs will be announced later, but they will be played on the following dates:
Qualifier 1 on May 29, the Eliminator on May 30, Qualifier 2 on June 1 and the final on June 3.
A total of 17 matches will be played, with two double-headers, which will be played on two Sundays.
The revised schedule features 13 league games and the four playoffs.
The match that will resume the tournament on May 17 will be played between Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in Bengaluru.
The official release said the BCCI held “extensive consultations with government and security agencies, and with all the key stakeholders,” before finalizing the resumption of the tournament.
The delay of the IPL, which was originally scheduled to end on May 25 in Kolkata, means it will now coincide with the entire ODI series between England and West Indies starting on May 29 in Birmingham and ending on June 3 at The Oval.
It will lead to a clash for the West Indies players Romario Shepherd (RCB), Shamar Joseph (LSG) and Sherfane Rutherford (GT), all picked in the ODI squad.
England have not named their squad yet but the players likely to be affected are Jos Buttler (GT), Phil Salt (RCB), Jacob Bethell (RCB), Liam Livingstone (RCB), Will Jacks (MI) and Reece Topley (MI), depending on which teams make the playoffs.
The revised IPL schedule also squeezes the gap between the IPL final and the WTC final to just seven days, with Australia and South Africa set to clash for the ICC title from June 11 at Lord’s.
Both Australia and South Africa are scheduled to announce their respective squads on Tuesday. The players who are currently part of the IPL teams and are likely to be part of the WTC final are Australia captain Pat Cummins and Travis Head (both SRH), Mitchell Starc and Tristan Stubbs (both DC), Josh Hazlewood (RCB), Marco Jansen and Josh Inglis (both PBKS), along with Aiden Markram (LSG), Kagiso Rabada (GT), Ryan Rickelton (MI) and Kwena Maphaka (RR). Sportsmax
