'2 saal lagengey samajhne mei' - Twitter left bemused as BCCI announce new system for IPL 2022

The IPL 2022 season is all set to get underway from the 26th of March and the finals will be held on the 29th of May as confirmed by the BCCI secretary Jay Shah. The players will have to get into the bio bubble environment due to the Covid-19 issues and four venues in Maharashtra will host the entire league stages. The Wankhede Stadium, Brabourne Stadium and DY Patil Stadium are the designated venues in Mumbai while the MCA International Stadium in Pune will be the other venue.

A total of 70 leagues matches will be held and each of the ten franchises will get to play 14 league games (seven home and seven away) and it will be followed by four playoff matches as usual. However, the ten franchises have now been divided into two groups on basis of their number of championship titles and the number of finals they have made it to. This led to each team playing five teams twice and the remaining four teams once (two home and two away) based on the group placings.

Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings placed in different groups

It has to be noted that Group A consists of the Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals and the Lucknow Super Giants while Group B consists of the Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Punjab Kings and the Gujarat Titans.

According to the new IPL system, each franchise will get to the teams in their own group twice and they will also be playing their rival (based on performances) from the other group twice. For example, the Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings have placed at 1st and 2nd position according to the number of titles before the league stages, and this meant that Mumbai Indians will play all their members of the group twice and twice against the Chennai Super Kings alone from the other group. They will also be playing against the remaining four teams of the other group once and this will be applicable to the other teams as well.

Here’s the Twitter reactions to the new IPL system

Already lost interest. No home ground advantage 😵‍💫 #IPL2022 https://t.co/5VsM0dzfOh

— JD (@jayu_192) February 25, 2022

Why can't we do all over India??
Everyone are vaccinated, and risk is less compared to last year

And so much home advantage for Mumbai

— Lionul Meise Devotee (@Tokicho007) February 25, 2022

Strange schedule. In my opinion Group A topper should play bottom of Group B twice and the rest should follow in that fashion. MI should not be playing CSK twice. It should be GT. RR and RCB on same level should play twice.

— Srikanth Natarajan (@SrikanthNatara2) February 25, 2022

Can somebody plzz explain how this gonna work that IPL GROUP SHIT..?

— abbhhiiiiiiii (@abbhhiiiiiii) February 25, 2022

Me trying to understand the groupings and double fixtures format for #IPL2022 pic.twitter.com/SPphiL0qhS

— Sameer Allana (@HitmanCricket) February 25, 2022

KKR fans after seeing the group division 😩#IPL2022 pic.twitter.com/Kjm6iXfcN5

— AVIK (@Flicks__it) February 25, 2022

Trying to understand the new #IPL2022 group structure and match schedule idea. pic.twitter.com/EjJnQAndoc

— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS) February 25, 2022

Let's take a big laugh at IPL 2022 group B
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

— Rohishabh fangirl 💯✨(bit inactive) (@Im_RishRo1745) February 25, 2022

Group A – MI, KKR, RR, DC, LSG
Group B – CSK, SRH, RCB, PBKS, GT#IPL
pic.twitter.com/njGXxEWEKN

— Rohishabh fangirl 💯✨(bit inactive) (@Im_RishRo1745) February 25, 2022

Story of Group B of IPL 2022 :-

(RCB, CSK, SRH, PBKS, GT)#IPL2022 pic.twitter.com/b8ig4KrhDi

— Innocent Child (@bholaladkaa) February 25, 2022

Ipl ka group samjh nhi aaye!!2 saal lagega samjh mein pghela wallah shi tha

— Dhruv (@Dhruvdm20) February 25, 2022