Ranji Trophy 2022 knockout stage: All you need to know

The Ranji Trophy 2022 knockout stages is set to start, beginning with the quarterfinals from Monday, June 6 and will be held across venues in and around Bengaluru.

The knockouts are being held two months after the league stage completed because of the window made for IPL 2022.

Presently, eight groups will continue the season when they go head to head in the quarterfinal with the victors advancing to the elimination round which will also take place in Bengaluru from June 14-18 followed by the final from June 22-26 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

In the quarterfinals, seven Elite Group toppers – Madhya Pradesh, Bengal, Karnataka, Mumbai, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, who straightforwardly qualified for the last eight from the league stage will be joined by Jharkhand, who crushed plate-group victor Nagaland to procure a spot.

Bengal will confront Jharkhand in Quarterfinal 1, Mumbai will meet Uttarakhand in Quarterfinal 2, Karnataka faces Uttar Pradesh in Quarterfinal 3 and, Punjab takes on Madhya Pradesh in Quarterfinal 4.

In the first semi-final match, winner of Quarterfinal 1 faces victor of Quarterfinal 4, while the victor of Quarterfinal 2 and Quarterfinal 3 will go head to head in the second semifinal.