The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a highly popular and significant cricket tournament held in India. Until IPL 2025, 18 seasons of this tournament have happened, meaning IPL 2025 was the 18th season. If you talk about the current times, T20 leagues are played all over the world, but IPL was the first among those leagues, and that’s why it is more popular than any other T20 tournament in the world.
If you are a cricket fan, you may already know about this tournament, but if you are not, don’t worry, as we hold the answer for you. IPL is a T20 cricket league where you can see cricketers from different cricketing nations playing for different IPL teams. In this tournament, you can see cricketers who are opponents in their national teams playing in a single team. For example, Virat Kohli and Josh Hazlewood, who play against each other in their national teams, but you have seen them playing in one team, i.e., Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in IPL 2025.
The players who were opponents in their national teams but part of a single team in IPL make IPL an exciting platform. In fact, you can see players who were part of the same team playing against each other, like Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer, both of whom play for the Indian team, but in IPL, they play for the Gujarat Titans and the Punjab Kings, respectively. If you think IPL brings only entertainment, it also brings earning opportunities for viewers and cricket fans.
Earning Opportunities for Cricket Fans
As said, IPL, a T20 cricket tournament, not only brings with it entertainment but also earning opportunities. You would say how cricket fans can earn while being entertained through IPL matches. The answer is by wagering on cricket matches happening in this tournament. The quickest and easiest way is to play session betting, where you wager on a particular session rather than the entire cricket match.
Your next question will be how to play a session in cricket betting. Before giving you the answer, you need to know what a session in cricket is. A session in cricket is used for a particular period in a cricket match. For example, powerplay overs in a T20 match can be termed as a session, which is from the 1st over to the 6th over in an innings. This is one example, as you can create a session of your choice. Not every wagering site offers session wagering, and you need to find sites that offer it to fulfill this hobby of yours. Let’s move our talk to the most thrilling sessions in IPL matches.
Thrilling Matches in the History of IPL
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
The IPL final 2016 was one of the most thrilling matches in the history of the IPL, with SRH winning in the final over. In that match, all the 40 overs being bowled in the match were fantastic. It was a great opportunity for session wager enthusiasts as the entire match was never in one team’s favor until the last bowl. In the second innings, until KL Rahul got out, the match was in control of RCB, but after his wicket in the 16th over, it turned in SRH’s favor.
SRH bowlers made a comeback in the last five overs of the match, which ultimately made RCB short of 8 runs from leveling the score of 208 made by SRH.
Mumbai Indians (MI) vs Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
The IPL final 2019 between MI and CSK was another thrilling match in IPL history. MI won it with a margin of just 1 run. This match was a low-scoring match, as MI posted a total of 149 runs and CSK made 148 runs in reply. The match was never in control of one team in the entire match, and gave a lot of opportunities to session wagering lovers.
In the second innings, the match tilted in MI’s favor after the fall of the fifth wicket on the score of 133 in the 19th over, and they lost two more wickets after that, ultimately losing the match.
Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) vs Rajasthan Royals (RR)
The IPL 2020 match between KXIP and RR was a memorable match both for cricket fans and Rahul Tewatia, who pulled his team RR from losing to winning in a few overs or a short session. KXIP posted 223 runs, which looks like a difficult one for RR to chase. However, it was Rahul Tewatia who turned the tables in RR’s favor in the last five overs, as until the 15th over, there were minimal chances, and ultimately they ended on the winning side with three balls to spare.
Gujarat Titans (GT) vs Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
The IPL 2023 final is another thrilling match in IPL history, which was a rain-curtailed match, and CSK won the match on the last ball. GT posted a target of 215 runs for them; however, rain came in the second innings, and the match was shortened to 15 overs, and CSK was given a target of 171 runs to chase in those overs.
No one would have thought them to win after the match was reduced to 15 overs, and the fall of MS Dhoni’s and Ambati Rayudu’s wickets in the final five overs cut short their chances of winning. However, Ravindra Jadeja made them win the match by scoring 10 runs in the last two deliveries.
We hope you have a great time reading this post, where we have talked about the Indian Premier League, which brings entertainment and quick earning opportunities. Moreover, we have talked about the most thrilling matches in IPL history.