The picture of the playoff round in IPL 2026 has finally become completely clear. The ongoing race to reach the playoffs ended with the victory of Rajasthan Royals in the 69th match of the season on the last day of the league stage of the tournament. Rajasthan defeated Mumbai Indians by 30 runs in their last match. With this, Rajasthan entered the playoffs as the fourth and last team with 16 points. With this result, it has now become clear which teams will clash with each other in the first two matches of the playoffs.
Full playoff schedule
With the positions of the four teams being decided in the points table, it also became known that there will be a clash between the current champions Bengaluru and Gujarat in Qualifier-1. Hyderabad and Rajasthan will clash in the eliminator. You will get information about when and where these matches will take place below-
Qualifier-1: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Gujarat Titans (26 May, Dharamshala)
Eliminator: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals (May 27, New Chandigarh)
Qualifier-2: Winner of Eliminator vs defeated team of Qualifier-1 (29 May, New Chandigarh)
Final: Winner of Qualifier-1 vs Qualifier-2 (31 May, Ahmedabad)
Who will become champion for the second time?
It is clear from the playoff schedule that this time IPL is not going to get any new champion. Each of the four teams that reached the playoffs has tasted becoming IPL champion once before. Royal Challengers Bangalore is the defending champion of IPL. Gujarat Titans won IPL in 2022. Sunrisers Hyderabad became champion in 2016. Whereas, Rajasthan Royals won the first season of IPL in 2008. It is clear that this time any of these teams becomes champion, it will achieve the title of becoming champion for the second time.
Rajasthan became the fourth team by defeating Mumbai
Talking about the match between Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians, this match was very important from the point of view of playoffs. In that, victory was necessary for Rajasthan at any cost and Riyan Parag’s team completely fulfilled that requirement. It presented a tough challenge to Mumbai by scoring a big score of 205 runs. Mumbai could not overcome this challenge and could score only 175 runs. In this way Rajasthan registered its 8th win in the season and made it to the last-4. Due to this, the journey of Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders ended.
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