The 2022 Indian Premier League, also known as IPL 15 or for sponsorship reasons, TATA IPL 2022, was the fifteenth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 cricket league established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. The tournament was played from 26 March 2022 to 29 May 2022. The group stage of the tournament was played entirely in the state of Maharashtra, with Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Pune hosting matches.
The season saw the expansion of the league with the addition of two new franchises. Chennai Super Kings were the defending champions, having won their fourth title during the previous season.
In the final one of the new franchises, Gujarat Titans, beat Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets to win their first title.
Background
Although earlier reports suggested the addition of two more teams in the previous season, the BCCI delayed the expansion of the league until 2022. In August 2021, it was confirmed that two new franchises would join the league in 2022, with a shortlist of locations including Ahmedabad, Cuttack, Dharamshala, Guwahati, Indore and Lucknow.
In a closed bidding auction held in October 2021, RPSG Group and CVC Capital won the right to the two new franchises. RPSG paid ₹7,090 crore (US$890 million) for the Lucknow franchise, and CVC won the Ahmedabad franchise for ₹5,625 crore (US$700 million). The Lucknow team was named as Lucknow Super Giants in January 2022, and the Ahmedabad team was named as Gujarat Titans the following month.
Vivo pulled out as the title sponsor of the tournament on 11 January 2022, having previously withdrawn as sponsors in 2020 and later signing a contract until 2023. The Tata Group was later named as the replacement title sponsor for the remainder of Vivo’s contract.
Personnel changes
Each existing team was allowed to retain a maximum of four players, with the two new teams were allowed to select a maximum of three players before the auction. The retained players of the existing eight teams were announced on 30 November 2021, and the two new teams named their selections on 22 January 2022.
The player auction to complete team squads took place on 12 and 13 February 2022 in Bangalore. Ishan Kishan was the most expensive buy of the auction, bought by Mumbai Indians for ₹15.25 crore (US$1.9 million). The most expensive overseas player was Liam Livingstone, bought by Punjab Kings for ₹11.50 crore (US$1.4 million).
Format
With the introduction of the new teams, a ten-team format was created, consisting of 74 matches. The ten teams were divided into two groups of five. In the group stage, each team plays 14 games: facing the other four teams in their group twice, both home and away, four teams from the other group once, and the remaining team from the other group twice. The groups for the tournament were announced on 25 February 2022. The format is similar to the one used in 2011, although in 2022 the teams were drawn into groups according to seeding, instead of being drawn randomly.
| Group A | Group B |
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| Mumbai Indians | Chennai Super Kings |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| Rajasthan Royals | Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| Delhi Capitals | Punjab Kings |
| Lucknow Super Giants | Gujarat Titans |
Venues
Three venues in Mumbai and one in Pune hosted the league stage matches. The original schedule for the tournament had 20 matches each at the Wankhede Stadium and the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai, with Mumbai’s Brabourne Stadium and the MCA International Stadium in Pune hosting 15 matches each. Every team were scheduled to play four matches each at the Wankhede Stadium and the DY Patil Stadium, and three matches each at the Brabourne Stadium and the MCA Stadium
Due to COVID-19 cases within the Delhi Capitals camp, two matches were relocated from the MCA International Stadium in Pune.
Venues of 2022 Indian Premier League
| League Stage | |||
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| Mumbai | Pune | ||
| Wankhede Stadium | Brabourne Stadium | DY Patil Stadium | MCA International Stadium |
| Capacity: 33,108 | Capacity: 20,000 | Capacity: 55,000 | Capacity: 45,000 |
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| Kolkata | Ahmedabad | ||
| Eden Gardens | Narendra Modi Stadium | ||
| Capacity: 80,000 | Capacity: 130,000 | ||
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Incident
Pravin Amre was suspended for a game while Rishabh Pant and Shardul Thakur was fined due to breaking rules. In a game the trio was unsatisfied due to umpire did not gave a no ball. Pant waved his batter from dugout to leave the ground in intention of abandon the game in protest and Amre stormed into the ground.
Points table
| Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | B | Gujarat Titans (C) | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 0.316 | Advanced to Qualifier 1 |
| 2 | A | Rajasthan Royals (R) | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 18 | 0.298 | |
| 3 | A | Lucknow Super Giants (4th) | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 18 | 0.251 | Advanced to Eliminator |
| 4 | B | Royal Challengers Bangalore (3rd) | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 16 | −0.253 | |
| 5 | A | Delhi Capitals | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 0.204 | |
| 6 | B | Punjab Kings | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 0.126 | |
| 7 | A | Kolkata Knight Riders | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 0.146 | |
| 8 | B | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 12 | −0.379 | |
| 9 | B | Chennai Super Kings | 14 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 8 | −0.203 | |
| 10 | A | Mumbai Indians | 14 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 8 | −0.506 |
(C) Champion; (R) Runners-up
Match summary
| Team | Group matches | Playoffs | |||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Q1/E | Q2 | F | |
| Chennai Super Kings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | |||
| Delhi Capitals | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 14 | |||
| Gujarat Titans | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | W | W | |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 12 | |||
| Lucknow Super Giants | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 18 | L | ||
| Mumbai Indians | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | |||
| Punjab Kings | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 14 | |||
| Rajasthan Royals | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 18 | L | W | L |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 16 | W | L | |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 12 | |||
| Win | Loss | No result |
- Note: The total points at the end of each group match are listed.
- Note: Click on the points (group matches) or W/L (playoffs) to see the match summary.
| Visitor team → | CSK | DC | GT | KKR | LSG | MI | PBKS | RR | RCB | SRH |
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| Home team ↓ | ||||||||||
| Chennai Super Kings | Chennai 91 runs |
Gujarat 7 wickets |
Kolkata 6 wickets |
Mumbai 5 wickets |
Punjab 54 runs |
Chennai 23 runs |
Hyderabad 8 wickets |
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| Delhi Capitals | Delhi 4 wickets |
Lucknow 6 runs |
Delhi 4 wickets |
Delhi 9 wickets |
Rajasthan 15 runs |
Bangalore 16 runs |
Delhi 21 runs |
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| Gujarat Titans | Gujarat 3 wickets |
Gujarat 14 runs |
Gujarat 5 wickets |
Mumbai 5 runs |
Punjab 8 wickets |
Gujarat 6 wickets |
Gujarat 5 wickets |
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| Kolkata Knight Riders | Delhi 44 runs |
Gujarat 8 runs |
Lucknow 2 runs |
Kolkata 5 wickets |
Kolkata 6 wickets |
Kolkata 7 wickets |
Kolkata 54 runs |
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| Lucknow Super Giants | Lucknow 6 wickets |
Gujarat 62 runs |
Lucknow 75 runs |
Lucknow 36 runs |
Rajasthan 24 runs |
Bangalore 18 runs |
Lucknow 12 runs |
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| Mumbai Indians | Chennai 3 wickets |
Mumbai 5 wickets |
Kolkata 52 runs |
Lucknow 18 runs |
Punjab 12 runs |
Rajasthan 23 runs |
Hyderabad 3 runs |
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| Punjab Kings | Punjab 11 runs |
Delhi 17 runs |
Gujarat 6 wickets |
Lucknow 20 runs |
Rajasthan 6 wickets |
Punjab 5 wickets |
Hyderabad 7 wickets |
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| Rajasthan Royals | Rajasthan 5 wickets |
Delhi 8 wickets |
Gujarat 37 runs |
Rajasthan 7 runs |
Rajasthan 3 runs |
Mumbai 6 wickets |
Bangalore 4 wickets |
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| Royal Challengers Bangalore | Bangalore 13 runs |
Bangalore 8 wickets |
Bangalore 3 wickets |
Bangalore 7 wickets |
Punjab 54 runs |
Rajasthan 29 runs |
Hyderabad 9 wickets |
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| Sunrisers Hyderabad | Chennai 13 runs |
Hyderabad 8 wickets |
Hyderabad 7 wickets |
Punjab 5 wickets |
Rajasthan 61 runs |
Bangalore 67 runs |
| Home team won | Visitor team won |
- Note: Results listed are according to the home (horizontal) and visitor (vertical) teams.
- Note: Click on a result to see a summary of the match.
League stage
The schedule for the group stages was published on the official IPL website on 6 March 2022.
Matches
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Match 1
26-Mar-22 19:30 (N) Scorecard |
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Chennai Super Kings
131/5 (20 overs) |
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Kolkata Knight Riders
133/4 (18.3 overs) |
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MS Dhoni 50* (38)
Umesh Yadav 2/20 (4 overs) |
Ajinkya Rahane 44 (34)
Dwayne Bravo 3/20 (4 overs) |
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Kolkata Knight Riders won by 6 wickets
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai (Group B vs Group A) Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Nitin Menon (Ind) Player of the match: Umesh Yadav (Kolkata Knight Riders) |
- Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field.
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Match 2
27-Mar-22 15:30 (D/N) Scorecard |
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Mumbai Indians
177/5 (20 overs) |
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Delhi Capitals
179/6 (18.2 overs) |
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Ishan Kishan 81* (48)
Kuldeep Yadav 3/18 (4 overs) |
Lalit Yadav 48* (38)
Basil Thampi 3/35 (4 overs) |
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Delhi Capitals won by 4 wickets
Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai (Group A) Umpires: Saiyed Khalid (Ind) and Rod Tucker (Aus) Player of the match: Kuldeep Yadav (Delhi Capitals) |
- Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
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Match 3
27-Mar-22 19:30 (N) Scorecard |
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Royal Challengers Bangalore
205/2 (20 overs) |
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Punjab Kings
208/5 (19 overs) |
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Faf du Plessis 88 (57)
Rahul Chahar 1/22 (4 overs) |
Bhanuka Rajapaksa 43 (22)
Mohammed Siraj 2/59 (4 overs) |