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

Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Rajasthan Royals: The IPL 2025 is expected to be an exciting match today. Rajat Patidar’s RCB and Ryan Parag’s Rajasthan Royals will clash at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. This is the second match between the two teams this season. Earlier, when both teams came face to face, RCB won. Now Rajasthan would like to retaliate.

In IPL 2025, RCB has played 8 matches so far. During this time, the team has won five matches. At the same time, there has been a defeat in three matches. The team’s net run rate is +0.472. RCB is fourth in the points table. Talking about Rajasthan Royals, she has won only two matches in eight matches. He has suffered defeat in 6 matches. The team is at number eight in the points table.

Head to head

There is a thorn in the head to head between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals. In the IPL, RCB has defeated Rajasthan 16 times. At the same time, Rajasthan has defeated Bengaluru 14 times. This is the second match between the two teams this season. About a week ago, RCB defeated Rajasthan in Jaipur.

Pitch report

M Chinnaswamy stadium of Bengaluru is considered to be the cemetery of bowlers. The batsmen have fun here. However, RCB is constantly losing on this ground. The dew is not going to have this much effect. Nevertheless, the team winning the toss can decide to bowl first, because it is not easy to defend any total here.

Match prediction

In this match, RCB’s hand is heavy, but our match is said that the match is on par. The team chasing the target is more contestant of victory. Rajasthan can blow everyone’s senses in this match.

RCB’s possible playing XI- Phil Salat, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (Captain), Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Romario Shepherd, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal and Josh Hazlewood

Inpact Player- Suyash Sharma

Rajasthan’s possible playing XI- Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Ryan Parag (Captain), Nitish Rana, Dhruv Jurael (wicketkeeper), Shimran Hetmyer, Vanindu Hasranga, Jofra Archer, Quena Mafa, Sandeep Sharma and Tushar Deshpande

Impact Player- Shubham Dubey/Kumar Karthikeya