The 2022 Indian Premier League cricket will see a tweak in the format as 10 teams will be divided into groups of five but the number of matches per side will remain 14.

As per groupings released by BCCI on Friday, group A comprises Mumbai Indians, KKR, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Supergiants, media agencies reported.Group B will have Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Punjab Kings and Gujarat Titans.

In a new format for the IPL, starting with the 2022 edition, the 10 teams have been given seedings based on the number of times they have won the IPL or made the finals and, accordingly, been divided into two “virtual” groups for the league phase, espncricinfo.com reported.

The virtual groups are as mentioned below:

	Group A		Group B
1	MI(5)	2	CSK(4)
3	KKR(2)	4	SRH(1)
5	RR(1)	6	RCB
7	DC	8	PBKS
9	LSG	10	GT

Over the years, the IPL has been an eight-team affair where each team played each other twice at the round-robin league stage to complete 14 games. However, this group league format is not new in IPL as it was once used a decade back when Pune Warriors and Kochi Tuskers Kerala were part of the league.

How Each Team Plays 14 Games: The 10 teams will play a total of 14 league matches (7 home matches and 7 away matches) totalling to 70 league matches, followed by the 4 playoff matches. Each team will play 5 teams twice and the remaining 4 teams only once (2 only home and 2 only away).

Each team plays the other teams in its group twice, which makes it eight matches. The balance six games they play against the five teams in the other group. So MI from group A will play two games. Similarly, KKR, the second-placed team in Group A, plays SRH in group B twice and all other teams once. This is how teams attain (8+6) 14 group league games.

All teams will play 4 matches each at Wankhede Stadium and DY Patil Stadium; 3 matches each at Brabourne Stadium (CCI) and MCA International Stadium, Pune.

Meanwhile, soon the telecast and digital rights war is set to start with experts saying that Amazon could give a tough fight for rights to Reliance and Disney-Star, which is the present rights holder having paid approximately $ 2.6 billion for both TV and digital rights.

Will Indian cricket administration body BCCI break the up the linera Tv and digital rights to give it to the different companies or insist on selling it as a package to one company that has both TV broadcast and digital businesses within its fold?

Stay Tuned.