The IPL 2026 playoffs reach their knockout stage today, with Sunrisers Hyderabad facing Rajasthan Royals in the Eliminator \u2014 a single defeat ends one team\u2019s season.<\/p>\n
The match is scheduled for 7:30 PM IST at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur, New Chandigarh. The Eliminator is straight knockout: the winner stays alive and moves into Qualifier 2, while the loser is out of the tournament. It is the marquee fixture on an otherwise busy day of cricket across formats.<\/p>\n
The rest of today\u2019s schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n Ireland host New Zealand<\/strong> in the Only Test of the series at Belfast\u2019s Civil Service Cricket Club, with play listed from 3:30 PM IST (11:00 AM local). It is the standout red-ball fixture of the day and the centrepiece of New Zealand\u2019s tour of Ireland.<\/p>\n English domestic cricket also features. In the T20 Blast, Leicestershire take on Derbyshire<\/strong> in the competition\u2019s 19th match at Grace Road, Leicester, starting 11:30 PM IST (7:00 PM local).<\/p>\n The Women\u2019s T20 Blast has three fixtures. Warwickshire Women meet The Blaze Women<\/strong> at Edgbaston, Birmingham, and Somerset Women face Yorkshire Women<\/strong> at the Cooper Associates County Ground in Taunton \u2014 both from 7:00 PM IST. Later, Surrey Women host Durham Women<\/strong> at the Kennington Oval, London, from 11:00 PM IST.<\/p>\n Why it matters<\/strong><\/p>\n For Indian fans, the Eliminator is the day\u2019s main draw. The IPL has entered the business end of its season, and single-elimination knockouts leave no margin for error \u2014 every dropped catch and slow over carries the weight of a campaign. The Belfast Test, meanwhile, offers a rare stretch of first-class international cricket in the build-up to the wider season.<\/p>\n All fixtures and timings are per the day\u2019s published cricket schedule and are subject to change for weather or other reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The IPL 2026 playoffs reach their knockout stage today, with Sunrisers Hyderabad facing Rajasthan Royals in the Eliminator \u2014 a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52890","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52892,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52890\/revisions\/52892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}