IPL 2025: With Delhi’s defeat, 4 playoff tickets confirmed, suspense remains on who will face whom

New Delhi. In the match played between Mumbai and Delhi on Wednesday in IPL 2025, Mumbai Indians (MI) defeated Delhi Capitals (DC) by 59 runs. With this win, Mumbai has now become the fourth team to reach the playoffs. Gujarat, Punjab and RCB had already qualified. Now Mumbai’s name has been added to it. There was a competition between Delhi and Mumbai for the fourth position. But Mumbai’s victory has taken it to the playoffs. Now it is interesting to know which team will face whom in the playoffs…

Now these 4 teams in the playoffs
Now the place of 4 teams has been confirmed in the playoffs. Gujarat Titans, Punjab Kings and RCB had already qualified. The battle for the fourth position was between Mumbai and Delhi. Mumbai had 14 points while Delhi had 13 points. Both the teams had 2-2 matches left. But with Mumbai’s win in this match, Mumbai has now qualified for the playoffs because it now has 16 points in 13 matches. Even if Delhi wins its next match, it will still have only 15 points. That means Mumbai is ahead of it. That means now the names of Gujarat, Punjab, RCB and Mumbai have been finalized for the playoffs.

Now know who will compete with whom
Although the qualification list of these four teams has been finalized, the situation regarding their order (standing) in the playoffs is still not clear. According to the rules of IPL, the teams which are in first and second place in the league stage get an additional chance to reach the final.

Qualifier-1 is held between the top-2 teams, and the winning team directly enters the final. At the same time, the losing team of Qualifier-1 gets another chance. This team faces the winner of the Eliminator (match between the third and fourth place team) in Qualifier-2. The winner of Qualifier-2 then faces the winner of Qualifier-1 in the final.

Thus, the teams ranked first and second get two chances to reach the final, while the teams ranked third and fourth have to reach the final by winning every match. But since the names of 4 teams have now been confirmed for the playoffs.

Remaining matches of teams reaching the playoffs
Gujarat still has two matches left. That means the team can still reach 22 points. RCB also has two matches left. While Punjab also has two chances and Mumbai has only one match left. That means when all the matches of these four teams that have reached the playoffs are over. Only then will it be clear which team will face whom.

This was the match
In this match played at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium, Delhi won the toss and decided to bowl first. Akshar was not playing in this match. Faf du Plessis was captaining in his place. Mumbai batted first and set a target of 181 runs for Delhi on the basis of Surya’s stormy innings of 73 runs. In response, Delhi could score only 121 runs. Bumrah and Santner bowled brilliantly. On the basis of this, Mumbai won the match by 59 runs.