{"id":21532,"date":"2024-03-24T18:16:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T12:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=425906"},"modified":"2024-03-24T18:16:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T12:46:39","slug":"ipl-2024-no-more-ms-dhoni-vs-virat-kohli-in-group-stage-mumbai-indians-to-play-gt-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2024-no-more-ms-dhoni-vs-virat-kohli-in-group-stage-mumbai-indians-to-play-gt-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2024: No more MS Dhoni vs Virat Kohli in group stage; Mumbai Indians to play GT twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-id=\"1bb7625b-d584-4c4d-9f69-34c74603206a\">In the group stage of IPL 2024, all cricket lovers are most likely to miss the much-awaited match between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore for the second time, after the former won against the latter in the season opener.<\/p>\n<p data-id=\"1bb7625b-d584-4c4d-9f69-34c74603206a\">Consequently, both sides are allocated to Group B, and the existing structures suggest that they would not encounter one another till the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p data-id=\"f8668392-dc01-4c31-8964-7911fcbffcbe\">In the IPL 2024 format, the ten teams are divided into two groups five each. As a result, Group A is formed by Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals, and Lucknow Super Giants, whereas Group B includes Chennai Super Kings, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Punjab Kings, and Gujarat Titans.<\/p>\n<p data-id=\"f8668392-dc01-4c31-8964-7911fcbffcbe\">Every team will compete once against the other four in their grouping and twice against five opponents from the alternate grouping . This format allows for a total of 14 matches for each team.<\/p>\n<p data-id=\"64833ab1-c2d1-4dfa-9e00-51ac0688d605\">Therefore, cricket fans can anticipate that although they will have to miss the match between MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli, they will witness the Gujarat Titans face Mumbai Indians.<\/p>\n<p data-id=\"64833ab1-c2d1-4dfa-9e00-51ac0688d605\">The current MI captain Hardik Pandya resigned as the captain of GT after leading the team to successive finals in 2022 and 2023 and won the title in 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MS Dhoni \ud83e\udd17 Virat Kohli <\/p>\n<p>These two are a VIBE! \u263a\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TATAIPL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TATAIPL<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CSKvRCB?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CSKvRCB<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/msdhoni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@msdhoni<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imVkohli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@imVkohli<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChennaiIPL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChennaiIPL<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RCBTweets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RCBTweets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/whjKAk8j0L\">pic.twitter.com\/whjKAk8j0L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IPL\/status\/1771269738473165170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the group stage of IPL 2024, all cricket lovers are most likely to miss the much-awaited match between Chennai\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":41996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3720],"class_list":["post-21532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ipl-2024"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}