Frankly, the result of IPL 2021 has already stopped mattering.. Public will lose interest in a tournament that is abruptly stopped mid way and then restarted. The teams with the most England players (RR, CSK) will not care because for RR, they are already in the deepest of pits despite having Butler in the first half of their tournament. And CSK - well even if they care about getting into the playoffs of a tournament ravaged by COVID, they have backup options for Moeen (Gowtham) and Curran (Bravo) and probably might try to ring in replacement from other countries. But I have a feeling that CSK will also stop caring about the result and start focusing on 2022 already. For us (CSK), 2021 season is already a huge success considering where we were at the end of 2021.