Indian Premier League 2022 (IPL)

IPL 2022 was the fifteenth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The tournament took place from 26 March 2022 to 29 May 2022. The league stage of the IPL 2022 cricket tournament was held entirely in the state of Maharashtra due to Covid-19 restrictions.

Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Pune hosted the league games. The format of the tournament was changed due to the addition of two new teams - Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants. The addition of the two teams meant a total of ten teams participated in Tata IPL 2022.

IPL 2022 Format:

A new format was created by the IPL governing council based on minor opponent rule. Each team played a total of 14 league games. The ten teams were categorized into two groups of five. During the league stage, each team faced the other teams in their group as well as the the team placed in the same row in the opposite group twice. In addition, each team had to play the other four teams in the other group once.

Group A Group B
Mumbai Indians Chennai Super Kings
Kolkata Knight Riders Sunrisers Hyderabad
Rajasthan Royals Royal Challengers Bangalore
Delhi Capitals Punjab Kings
Lucknow Super Giants Gujarat Titans

IPL 2022 Points Table:

Debutants Gujarat Titans finished at the top of the points table with 10 wins from 14 games. They were joined by inaugural winners Rajasthan Royals, fellow debutants Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore in the playoffs.

IPL 2022 points table.

Teams Mat Won Lost Tied NR Pts NRR
Gujarat Titans (Q) 14 10 4 0 0 20 0.316
Rajasthan Royals (Q) 14 9 5 0 0 18 0.298
Lucknow Super Giants(Q) 14 9 5 0 0 18 0.251
Royal Challengers Bangalore(Q) 14 8 6 0 0 16 -0.253
Delhi Capitals 14 7 7 0 0 14 0.204
Punjab Kings 14 7 7 0 0 14 0.126
Kolkata Knight Riders 14 6 8 0 0 12 0.146
Sunrisers Hyderabad 14 6 8 0 0 12 -0.379
Chennai Super Kings 14 4 10 0 0 8 -0.203
Mumbai Indians 14 4 10 0 0 8 -0.506

IPL 2022  Playoffs and final:

In the playoffs, Gujarat Titans beat Rajasthan Royals in the first qualifier to book a place in the final. In the eliminator, Royal Challengers Bangalore got the better of the Lucknow Super Giants. In the second qualifier, Rajasthan Royals beat Royal Challengers Bangalore to set up a clash with the Gujarat-based outfit. In the final, the Gujarat Titans once again came on top and became only the second team after Royals to win the IPL in their first season.

IPL 2022 Stats:

Most runs:

Player Team Mat Inns Runs High score
Jos Buttler Rajasthan Royals 17 17 863 116
KL Rahul Lucknow Super Giants 15 15 616 103*
Quinton de Kock Lucknow Super Giants 15 15 508 140*
Hardik Pandya Gujarat Titans 15 15 487 87*
Shubman Gill Gujarat Titans 16 16 483 96

Most wickets:

Player Team Mat Inns Wkts Best innings bowling
Yuzvendra Chahal Rajasthan Royals 17 17 27 5/40
Wanindu Hasaranga Royal Challengers Bangalore 16 16 26 5/18
Kagiso Rabada Punjab Kings 13 13 23 4/33
Umran Malik Sunrisers Hyderabad 14 14 22 5/25
Kuldeep Yadav Delhi Capitals 14 14 21 4/14

Gujarat Titans won the IPL Tata IPL 2022 edition.

The Tata IPL 2022 was played in India.

Rajasthan Royals' Jos Buttler finished IPL 2022 as the highest run-scorer. He scored 863 runs in 17 games.
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