{"id":602039,"date":"2026-05-24T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602039\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:14:08","slug":"locked-and-loaded-ipl-2026-playoff-teams-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602039\/","title":{"rendered":"Locked And Loaded: IPL 2026 Playoff Teams Are Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today happened to be the most decisive day in IPL 2026, as all four play-off teams have been finalised tonight. While Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Gujarat had already qualified, it was Rajasthan, which made the safe passage today.<\/p>\n<p>Rajasthan had a crucial game against Mumbai and they definitely needed a big win to reach the playoffs. This fire was exhibited by Rajasthan on field as they were absolutely brilliant with the bat and ball.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, Rajasthan ended up defeating Mumbai by a comfortable margin of 30 runs and they have progressed to the play-offs now. This came at the expense of Punjab Kings who are officially eliminated from the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to be a significant outcome, considering that all four play-off teams have been officially locked. It is Bengaluru and Gujarat will be playing the qualifier while Hyderabad and Rajasthan will be playing the eliminator.<\/p>\n<p>The observation here is that all four teams which are qualified for the play-offs had won the IPL trophy 1 time. So no matter which team wins the IPL this year, it will be their second ever trophy.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-tag\">Tags <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulte.com\/tag\/ipl-2026\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPL 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today happened to be the most decisive day in IPL 2026, as all four play-off teams have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,17774,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-602039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-ipl-2026","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}