How can Rajasthan Royals Qualify for IPL 2025 Playoffs: For the third consecutive time, Rajasthan lost the match won. On Thursday, Rajasthan was in good condition chasing the target of 206 runs by Royal Challengers Bangalore. In 12 balls, the team needed 18 runs to win, but in the 19th over, Josh Hazlewood overturned the game with 2 consecutive wickets. In this, Hazlewood gave just 1 run. This is RCB’s first win on its home ground, while Rajasthan’s fifth consecutive defeat. However, there is still hope of reaching Rajasthan’s playoffs.
Josh Hazlewood also gave only 6 runs in the 17th over while also took a big wicket as Shimron Hetmyer (11). But after this, Bhuvneshwar Kumar had bowed towards Rajasthan due to 22 runs in the over. After this, Hazlewood dismissed Dhruv Jurael (47) and Jofra Archer (0) in the 19th over and snatched the victory from Rajasthan’s hands.
Rajasthan Royals’ fifth consecutive defeat
This is the fifth consecutive and 7th defeat of this season of Rajasthan team. The team has won only 2 matches in 9 matches. After losing the first (Vs SRH) and the second match (VS KKR), the team won the third (VS CSK) and the fourth match (VS PBKS) but lost five consecutive matches after that. Right now the Rajasthan team is at number 8 in the points table, it has 4 points. Hyderabad and Chennai also have 4-4 points, but their net run rate is slightly good (-0.625) with them.
How can Rajasthan Royals qualify for IPL 2025 playoffs?
Rajasthan Royals have now depended on other teams to reach the playoffs. There are 5 matches of league stage in Rajasthan. Out of these, the team will have to win all 5 matches, so that they get 14 points. In IPL history, a team of 14 digits has also qualified for the playoffs. Although this season seems to be so difficult, but Rajasthan will still have to expect that four other teams do not reach 16 points at the end of the group phase.
Currently, Gujarat is at number one in the points table, Delhi on second, Bangalore on third and fourth and Mumbai Indians. Punjab and Lucknow are at number five and sixth respectively. The top 3 teams have 12-12 points, while Mumbai, Punjab and Lucknow have 10-10 points.
The upcoming matches of Rajasthan Royals
- 28 April: Vs Gujarat Titans
- 1 May: Vs Mumbai Indians
- May 4: Vs Kolkata Knight Riders
- May 12: Vs vs chennai super kings
- 16 May: Vs Punjab kings
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