IPL 2023 is slowly going to reach its conclusion. Playoff matches are starting today. Four matches including the final will be played in the playoffs. The teams of Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans will be face to face in the first qualifier on Tuesday. At the same time, Lucknow Super Giants will face Mumbai Indians in the Eliminator on Wednesday. After this, Qualifier-2 will be played on Friday. The final is to be played on Sunday. After 11 years, this has happened in the IPL when the captains of all four teams reaching the playoffs or the last four are Indians. Earlier this happened only once in 2012. Let's know...
First, know how the matches are played in the playoffs?
The top four teams in the league round advance to the playoffs. The first and second-place teams get two chances to reach the finals. At the same time, every match is a virtual knockout for the third and fourth-placed teams. The 1st and 2nd placed teams play Qualifier-1, while the 3rd and 4th placed teams play the Eliminator. The winning team in Qualifier-1 directly advances to the final. Whereas, the losing team has to play Qualifier-2 with the winning team in the Eliminator. The journey of the losing team in the Eliminator ends. The winning team in Qualifier-2 reaches the final, while the losing team's journey ends.
In IPL, the rule of reaching the final under the qualifiers came in 2011. Before that, the last four matches were played on the lines of the semi-finals. Since 2008, this has happened only twice – in 2012 and 2023 – when all four teams reaching the last four have been captained by an Indian player. In the rest of the season, there has always been a foreign captain in the last four. Let us know which teams made it to the playoffs from IPL 2008 to 2023 and who was their captain-
Teams that reached last-4 in IPL 2008
Team captain
Rajasthan Royals Shane Warne
Kings XI Punjab Yuvraj Singh
Chennai Super Kings Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Delhi Daredevils Virender Sehwag
Teams that reached last-4 in IPL 2009
Team captain
Delhi Daredevils Virender Sehwag
Chennai Super Kings Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Royal Challengers Bangalore Anil Kumble
Deccan Chargers Adam Gilchrist
Teams that reached last-4 in IPL 2010
Team captain
Mumbai Indians Sachin Tendulkar
Deccan Chargers Adam Gilchrist
Chennai Super Kings Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Royal Challengers Bangalore Anil Kumble
Teams that reached last-4 in IPL 2011
Team captain
Royal Challengers Bangalore Daniel Vettori
Chennai Super Kings Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mumbai Indians Sachin Tendulkar
Kolkata Knight Riders Gautam Gambhir
Teams that reached last-4 in IPL 2012
Team captain
Delhi Daredevils Virender Sehwag
Kolkata Knight Riders Gautam Gambhir
Mumbai Indian Harbhajan Singh
Chennai Super Kings Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Teams that reached last-4 in IPL 2013
Team captain
Chennai Super Kings Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mumbai Indians Ricky Ponting/Rohit Sharma
Rajasthan Royals Rahul Dravid
Sunrisers Hyderabad Cameron White
Teams that reached last-4 in IPL 2014
team captain
Kings XI Punjab George Bailey
Kolkata Knight Riders Gautam Gambhir
Chennai Super Kings Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mumbai Indians Rohit Sharma
Teams that reached last-4 in IPL 2015
team captain
Chennai Super Kings Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mumbai Indians Rohit Sharma
Royal Challengers Bangalore Virat Kohli
Rajasthan Royals Steve Smith
Teams that reached last-4 in IPL 2016
team captain
Gujarat Lions Suresh Raina
Royal Challengers Bangalore Virat Kohli
Sunrisers Hyderabad David Warner
Kolkata Knight Riders Gautam Gambhir
Teams that reached last-4 in IPL 2017
team captain
Mumbai Indians Rohit Sharma
Rising Pune Supergiant Steve Smith
Sunrisers Hyderabad David Warner
Kolkata Knight Riders Gautam Gambhir
Teams that reached last-4 in IPL 2018
team captain
Sunrisers Hyderabad Kane Williamson
Chennai Super Kings Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Kolkata Knight Riders Dinesh Karthik
Rajasthan Royals Ajinkya Rahane
Teams that reached last-4 in IPL 2019
team captain
Mumbai Indians Rohit Sharma
Chennai Super Kings Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Delhi Capitals Shreyas Iyer
Sunrisers Hyderabad Kane Williamson
Teams reaching last-4 in IPL 2020
team captain
Mumbai Indians Rohit Sharma
Delhi Capitals Shreyas Iyer
Sunrisers Hyderabad David Warner
Royal Challengers Bangalore Virat Kohli
Teams reaching last-4 in IPL 2021
team captain
Delhi Capitals Rishabh Pant
Chennai Super Kings Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Royal Challengers Bangalore Virat Kohli
Kolkata Knight Riders Eoin Morgan
Teams reaching last-4 in IPL 2022
team captain
Gujarat Titans Hardik Pandya
Rajasthan Royals Sanju Samson
Lucknow Super Giants KL Rahul
Royal Challengers Bangalore Faf Duplessis
Teams to reach last-4 in IPL 2023
team captain
Gujarat Titans Hardik Pandya
Chennai Super Kings Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Lucknow Super Giants KL Rahul/Krunal Pandya
Mumbai Indians Rohit Sharma
Teams won the title 12 times under the leadership of Indian players
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The team Gujarat Titans became the champions last time - Photo: PTI
So far, out of 15 seasons, this has happened in 12 seasons when the teams won the title under the leadership of the Indian captain. The Mumbai team has become the champion five times under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Chennai team four times under the captaincy of Dhoni, the Kolkata team twice under the captaincy of Gautam Gambhir, and the Gujarat Titans team once under the captaincy of Hardik. Only in 2008, Rajasthan's team Shane Warne, Deccan Chargers' team Adam Gilchrist in 2009 and Hyderabad's team in 2016 won the title under the leadership of David Warner i.e. a foreign captain. Now in this season also the team will become champion under the leadership of an Indian player.
IPL winning team
team year captain
Rajasthan Royals 2008 Shane Warne
Deccan Chargers 2009 Adam Gilchrist
Chennai Super Kings 2010 Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Chennai Super Kings 2011 Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Kolkata Knight Riders 2012 Gautam Gambhir
Mumbai Indians 2013 Rohit Sharma
Kolkata Knight Riders 2014 Gautam Gambhir
Mumbai Indians 2015 Rohit Sharma
Sunrisers Hyderabad 2016 David Warner
Mumbai Indians 2017 Rohit Sharma
Chennai Super Kings 2018 Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mumbai Indians 2019 Rohit Sharma
Mumbai Indians 2020 Rohit Sharma
Chennai Super Kings 2021 Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Gujarat titans 2022 hardik pandya
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