IPL 2024 Playoffs Scenario:The RCB team has again reached the same stage in the IPL, where far from winning the title, they are in danger of even going to the playoffs. The team has lost 6 consecutive matches and is currently at the bottom of the points table. However, even after this, she is still not out of the race to get into the top 4 of IPL. But now it is almost impossible for RCB to go to the playoffs. Let us know what equations are being created at this time.
RCB lost by almost one run against KKR
The RCB team, captained by Faf Du Plessis, suffered a close defeat against Kolkata at the Eden Gardens. This is the team’s seventh defeat in this year’s IPL. That means the team has lost half the matches of the league. When the RCB team came out to chase the target of 223 runs given by KKR, after the initial setbacks, there was a partnership of about 102 runs between Rajat Patidar and Will Jacques. It seemed that the RCB team would lose the match. Lastly there were also Dinesh Karthik and Karn Sharma. Dinesh Karthik is certainly performing well for his team, but he also missed the mark at the last chance. He scored 25 runs on 18 balls, but as soon as he was out, it seemed that RCB would lose the match. But in the last over, Karn Sharma kept the match alive by hitting three sixes off Mitchell Starc. But as soon as he was out, the match went out of hand.
What are RCB’s chances?
Now the question is whether RCB’s chances of going to the playoffs are alive. So let us tell you that the Royal Challengers Bangalore team is not yet officially out of the race for the playoffs. However, the truth is that even if the team wins all its remaining 6 matches from here, there is no way left to reach the top 4. That is because now 10 teams have been playing in IPL for the last three years. Any team has to win at least 8 matches to finish the league stage in the top 4. Which the RCB team cannot do now.
The equations have changed in the last three years
Talking about IPL from 2018 to 2021, till that year the team going into the playoffs had 14 points. In the year 2019, Sunrisers Hyderabad had qualified for the playoffs with only 12 points. But now the picture and equations have changed. Ever since 10 teams have entered the IPL, it has become necessary to have 16 points. But if RCB team wins all its remaining 6 matches then it will have 14 points. If two or more teams have equal 14 points and there are only 3 teams with more points than that, then there can be a possibility for RCB. That means there is a possibility for RCB to go to the playoffs only if some new equations are created, which perhaps are not visible right now. It remains to be seen what happens next.
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