IPL 2024 Playoff Scenario: 4 Days 5 Matches, 2 Playoff Teams Awaited in IPL

The Indian Premier League (IPL 2024) season is now going to enter the playoffs. Two teams Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) have confirmed their place in the playoffs. There is competition between 5 teams for the remaining two places.

Now only 5 matches of the group stage are left in the 17th season of IPL. The last match will be played on 19 May. In this way, the fate of the 5 teams will be decided only after these 5 matches to be held in 4 days. Only 2 of these will be able to enter the playoffs

IPL 2024 Playoffs

These five teams are Chennai Super Kings(CSK), Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), and Delhi Capitals (DC), out of which 2 teams are from Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru in the playoffs. . The probability of reaching is highest.

Whereas the expectations of Delhi and Lucknow are negligible. The main reason for this is the poor net run rate of both these teams. Delhi has played all its 14 matches and has 14 points. Whereas in minus the net run rate is -0.377.

Whereas Lucknow has 12 points in 13 matches. Even if she wins the last match, she will still have 14 points. While his net run rate is also at minus -0.787. Lucknow's last match will be against Mumbai Indians (MI) on 17th May.

In this way, Virat Kohli RCB can reach the playoffs

Now let's talk about Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. Mahendra Singh Dhoni's team Chennai and Virat Kohli's team Bangalore have to play their last match against each other. This match will be played on May 18 at RCB's home ground M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

If RCB wins this match by a margin of 18 runs, then it will overtake the Chennai team in terms of points and net run rate and will make a strong claim to enter the playoffs. Whereas Chennai will have to pray that the Hyderabad team loses both its remaining matches.

The second equation is that if the Chennai team loses this match then Kohli's Bengaluru team will be completely eliminated. Whereas Chennai will enter the playoffs. After this result, the expectations of Delhi and Lucknow will also increase.

Hyderabad's defeat will create a Delhi-Lucknow equation

On the other hand, the Hyderabad team captained by Pat Cummins will have to win only one of its remaining 2 matches to reach the playoffs. If the Hyderabad team loses both matches then its net run rate will also be disturbed.

Besides, its marks will also become 14, equal to Delhi-Lucknow. In such a situation, based on net run rate, one of these three teams will enter the playoffs. For this, Lucknow will have to win its last match from Mumbai indians.