The fifth edition of Indian Premier League (IPL 2012) is turning on to its playoffs.The playoffs will begin tomorrow 22nd May,with the table toppers Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders.We will give the schedule and players list of teams qualified for the playoffs.The crash of Royal Challengers Bangalore against Deccan Chargers,qualified Chennai Super Kings to the playoffs.The Chennai Super Kings is the only team in the history of Indian Premier League which has qualified in all the play offs.The teams playing the qualifier-1,the table toppers the Delhi Daredevils and the 2nd table toppers Kolkata Knight Riders have an opportunity to enter the finals by winning the only match.Whereas the teams in the 3rd and 4th positions will have to win two matches the eliminator match and qualifier-2 to enter in to the grand final.This is the important difference between playoffs and semi finals.In semi finals all the four teams have equal chances,whereas in playoffs the teams in the 1st and 2nd positions in the league table will have two opportunities and the teams in the third and 4th position will have to face elimination.The schedule for IPL 2012 playoffs is as given below :1.Qualifier-1 (22 May-8PM) : Delhi Daredevils V Kolkata Knight Riders at Subrato Roy Sahara Stadium Pune
2.Eliminator : (23 May-8PM) : Chennai Super Kings V Mumbai Indians at Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore
3.Qualifier-2 : (25 May-8PM) : Qualifier-1 looser V Eliminator winner at M.A Chidambaram Stadium Chennai
The Grand final is on 27 May (Qualifier-1 winner V Qualifier-2 winner) at Chennai
The players list of teams qualified for IPL 2012 Playoffs are given below :
Delhi Daredevils : Virender Sehwag(captain),Irfan Pathan,Mahela Jayawardene,Ross Taylor,Kevin Pietersen,David Warner,Colin Ingram,Roelof Van der Merwe,Travis Birt,Andre Russell,Morne Morkel,Aaron Finch,Glenn Maxwell,Doug Bracewell,Varun Aaron,Umesh Yadav,Ajit Agarkar,Venugopal Rao,Naman Ojha,Prashant Naik,Shahbaz Nadeem,Puneet Bisht,Gulam Bodi,Unmukt Chand,Yogesh Nagar,Pawan Negi,Kuldeel Raval,Aavishkar Salvi,Vikas Mishra,Tejashwi Yadav,Zafir Patel,Manprit juneja,Robin Bist
Kolkata Knight Riders : Gautam Gambhir(captain),Yusuf Pathen,Jacques Kallis,Brendom McCullum,Eoin Morgan,Brett Lee,Shakib Al Hasan,Brad Haddin,Ryan ten Doeschate,Sunil Narine,James Pattinson,Marchant de Lange,Manoj Tiwary,Lakshmipathy Balaji,Iqbal Abdulla,Manvinder Bisla,Pradeep Sangwan,Shami Ahmed,Laxmi Shukla,Jaydev Unadkat,Iresh Saxena,Sanju Samson,Chirag Jani,Debabrata Das,Rajat Bhatia,Sarabjit Ladda
Mumbai Indians : Harbhajan Singh(captain),Sachin Tendulkar,Rohith Sharma,Dinesh Kartik,Pragyan Ojha,RP singh,Munaf Patel,Kieron Pollard,Herschelle Gibbs,Davy Jacobs,Aiden Blizzad,James Franklin,Mitchell Johnson,Richard Levi,Lasith Malinga,Robin Pietersen,Clint Mckay,Thisara Perera,Ambati Rayudu,Tirumalasetti Suman,Dhawal Kulkarni,Aditya Tare,Suryakumar Yadav,Abu Nechim,Kuldeep Yadav,Sushant Marathe,Pavan Suyal,Apoorv Wankhade,Amitoze singh,Yuzvendra Chahal,Jaidev Shah,Rahul Shukla
Chennai Super Kings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain),Suresh Raina,Ravindra Jadeja,Murali Vijay,Ravi chandra Ashwin,Subramaniam Badrinath,Albie Morkel,Dwayne Bravo,George Bailey,Ben Hilfenhaus,Nuwan Kulasekara,Scott Styris,Michael Hussey,Faf du Plessis,Doug Bollinger,Suraj Randiv,Srikkanth Anirudha,Joginder Sharma,Shadab Jakati,Sudeep Tyagi,Wriddhiman Saha,Ganapathi Vignesh,Kuthethurshri Vasudevadas,Yo Mahesh,Abhinav Mukund