The IPL 2024 is in full swing offering exciting matches and featuring extraordinary talent in cricket. If you’re a cricket fan, you must be curious about the schedule of the matches and how many matches does each team play in IPL 2024.
Well, the answer is, that each team must play a total of 14 matches. Here’s how it is decided.
- Double Round Robin: IPL 2024 follows this form of competition format where each team plays with the other teams twice.
- Group System: IPL 2024 divides the teams into 2 groups. The first group is named group A and the other group B. There are 5 teams in each group.
- Playing Within the Group: Each team plays a match once with the other 4 teams in the same group. So, in this step, each team plays 4 matches.
- Playing Across Groups: In this step, each team from one group (say group A) plays two matches with each team from the other group (say group B). So the total number of matches in this step comes out to be 10. Adding them up comes out to be 14.
- Home and Away: Out of the total of 14 matches a team plays, 7 matches are held in the home ground and the other 7 matches are played away.
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The Points System
The points system is simple. Each winning team earns 2 points and the losing team gets 0. In case of a tied match without the super over each team gets 1 point. Further, if the match cannot be pursued due to weather conditions, each team gets 1 point.
You can know the points earned by each team so far from the official IPL 2024 Website.
The Playoffs
After the group stage, 4 teams are selected based on the points for the playoffs. The top 2 teams play the “Qualifier” match and the bottom 2 teams play the “Eliminator” match. The winner of the Qualifier round is directly chosen to play the Finals and the loser of the Eliminator round is eliminated from the competition. The second finalist team is decided by a match between the loser of the Qualifier round and the winner of the Eliminator round. This match is named as the Qualifier 2 round. The winner of the final match is crowned the winner of the Indian Premier League.
So, in addition to the 14 matches each team plays, there are 4 additional matches: the Qualifiers 1 & 2, the Eliminator, and the Finals.
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