…The rest of the tournament will be played at six venues

IPL 2025 will resume on May 17 and end on June 3, as the BCCI announced a revised schedule on Monday night.
The remainder of the tournament, which was suspended on May 9 for a week due to cross-border tensions between India and Pakistan, will be played at six venues: Bengaluru, Jaipur, Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
The venues for the playoffs will be announced later, but they will be played on the following dates: Qualifier 1 on May 29, the Eliminator on May 30, Qualifier 2 on June 1 and the final on June 3. A total of 17 matches will be played, with two double-headers, which will be played on two Sundays.

The revised schedule features 13 league games and the four playoffs. That means the Punjab Kings (PBKS) vs Delhi Capitals (DC) game that was called off midway in the first innings on May 8 in Dharamsala, will be played again, on May 24 in Jaipur, which will be the temporary home base for PBKS. Two days later, PBKS will play against Mumbai Indians (MI), a match they were originally meant to play in their second home base of Dharamsala on May 11.
The match that will resume the tournament on May 17 will be played between Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in Bengaluru.

The first of the two double-headers in the revised schedule is Rajasthan Royals (RR) vs PBKS as the day game (3.30pm IST) on May 18 and DC vs Gujarat Titans (GT) later that evening. The next Sunday – May 25 – will see GT take on Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the day game in Ahmedabad followed by Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) vs KKR in Delhi from 7.30pm IST. The last league game will be between Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and RCB on May 27 in Lucknow.
The change in venues also means that three teams – PBKS, CSK and SRH – won’t get to play on their original home grounds anymore. With CSK and SRH out of the playoffs race, PBKS will count themselves unlucky considering they will play two of their home matches at

a neutral venue. With 15 points from 11 matches PBKS were third on the points table before the tournament was suspended.

The official release said the BCCI held “extensive consultations with government and security agencies, and with all the key stakeholders,” before finalising the resumption of the tournament.

The delay of the IPL, which was originally scheduled to end on May 25 in Kolkata, means it will now coincide with the entire ODI series between England and West Indies starting on May 29 in Birmingham and ending on June 3 at The Oval. It will lead to a clash for the West Indies players Romario Shepherd (RCB), Shamar Joseph (LSG) and Sherfane Rutherford (GT), all picked in the ODI squad. England have not named their squad yet but the players likely to be affected are Jos Buttler (GT), Phil Salt (RCB), Jacob Bethell (RCB), Liam

Livingstone (RCB), Will Jacks (MI) and Reece Topley (MI), depending on which teams make the playoffs.
The revised IPL schedule also squeezes the gap between the IPL final and the WTC final to just seven days, with Australia and South Africa set to clash for the ICC title from June 11 at Lord’s. Both Australia and South Africa are scheduled to announce their respective

squads on Tuesday. The players who are currently part of the IPL teams and are likely to be picked for the WTC final are Australia captain Pat Cummins and Travis Head (both SRH), Mitchell Starc and Tristan Stubbs (both DC), Josh Hazlewood (RCB), Marco Jansen and

Josh Inglis (both PBKS), Aiden Markram (LSG), Kagiso Rabada (GT), Ryan Rickelton (MI) and Kwena Mphaka (RR).
The revised schedule will also potentially impact the India A tour of England which is scheduled to begin from May 30 for two unofficial Tests, in Canterbury and Northampton. Several fringe India players, some of whom are likely to be part of the India squad for the five-

Test series starting on June 20 in England, will now be part of the IPL when the A matches begin.
For now, the biggest challenge for the 10 IPL franchises will be to re-assemble their squads and support staff members from overseas who had started flying back home over the weekend. The team that could find it easiest to get back together will be GT, currently on top of

the table, who had seen only two of their overseas players fly back: Buttler and Gerald Coetzee.
The rest of their squad was training in Ahmedabad meanwhile. MI could also benefit from the revised schedule, as their first game is on May 21, four days after the tournament resumes. (ESPN Cricinfo)