- May 18, 2025
Hello cricket enthusiasts- get ready for a rollercoaster ride! The end of IPL 2025 is right around the corner, and let’s be straight with each other; this is where the good kind of pandemonium begins. There are thirteen league games left, with seven teams still battling it out for the four playoff spots. Those spots are still up for grabs. Yep, you read that right- GT or RCB have yet to secure anything. So, if you thought this season had been exciting already, it’s about to be a whole new masala of drama, net run rates, and melancholia.
The Top Dawgs: GT and RCB Just One Step Away, or Are They?
The Gujarat Titans and the Royal Challengers Bangalore both are at 16 points and are left with three matches remaining. On paper, just one more win is sufficient to solidify their placement in the playoffs. However, this is the IPL—”is” has a lot of work to do!
Here’s the twist: both teams are looking to be one of the top two teams. Why? Because the top two teams get two chances at the final. No one wants to mess around with eliminators if they don’t have to. Should GT and RCB win two out of their three matches, both will finish on 20 points, which will only leave PBKS as the team with more points. Their job is simple: win two more matches, and let net run rate be damned.
Mid-Table Mayhem: PBKS, MI, and DC in a Dogfight
Now we get interesting.
Punjab Kings currently sit 3rd and play DC, MI, and RR—all in Jaipur, and not in their fortress in Dharamshala. If they can knock off Delhi, that should be enough to qualify because only one of DC or MI can hit 17 or higher points. Straightforward? Sort of, but execution is going to matter in an unfamiliar venue.
Mumbai Indians, as always, are dramatic right down to the last. They have 2 wins and qualify. They have 1 win, and they are forced into a mathematical bind and contemplating tiebreakers and perhaps prayer. Their ace up their sleeve? If it comes down to decimal points, MI wins the tiebreaker. But boy, are they under pressure—they are competing against the opposition, but also, they are competing against the weight of expectations.
Then you have Delhi Capitals, the team that has somehow perfected inconsistency. They’ve only won once in their last five matches but still have a pulsating chance. Three wins from their last three games, and they are through. But even at 17 points, we have this bizarre, real-world chance that they might still miss out on qualification depending on other results.
Long Shots and Hail Mary’s: KKR and LSG Holding on by a Thread
And now we are at the edge of it.
Kolkata Knight Riders can finish on 15 points. Even still, they are looking for MI and PBKS to lose all of their remaining games, which, unfortunately, can’t happen in totality as both MI and PBKS play each other. And on top of that, DC must finish below them, meaning 15 or fewer. So we need miracles now. Not just any miracles either. Divine-like miracles.
Lucknow Super Giants Lose once more, and it’s over. They could win all three games dramatically, but their fate relies on a procession of other teams failing and a miracle of their plain net run rate turning back into a respectable one.
So, who makes it into the top four? Who stumbles at the last hurdle? And who is left wondering if their net run rate just cost them? Are you ready for the most unpredictable finish IPL has ever experienced? Let the madness begin!
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