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

Rahul dravid on sanju samson: Is everything not going well in Rajasthan Royals Camp, there is differences between the players? Is there a rift between team captain Sanju Samson and coach Rahul Dravid about anything? These questions arose when a video of Rajasthan’s dugout went viral after losing in the last match. Now no one else but Rahul Dravid’s answer has come on this.

Today is the second match of double header between Rajasthan Royals and Lucknow Super Giants, which will be played at Sawai Mansingh Stadium from 7:30 pm. Before this match, coach Rahul Dravid, who came in front of the press, has described those reports as baseless, in which it was being said that there is a rift between Dravid and Sanju Samson.

What did Rahul Dravid say on the rift with Sanju Samson

Head coach Rahul Dravid said, “I do not know where such news comes from. Sanju and I are in one place, he is an important part of the Rajasthan Royals team. He is involved in every discussion and decision of the team. If you lose the match, you have to face criticism, we can take it on your performance but we can not do anything about such baseless things. I am not very good. Do not understand that when the players do not perform well, they also suffer so much. “

I knew there was definitely a rift with Signal in the first video, he is deliberately ignoring everything. https://t.co/dfxmlwgbg pic.twitter.com/688ji3mxrs

– Delhi Capitals Fan (@Pantiyerfc) April 17, 2025

There was a ruckus due to viral video

Rajasthan Royals lost the match against Delhi Capitals on Wednesday. The first team could not score 9 runs in the final over and the match was tied, after which only 11 runs in the super over, after which Delhi won the thrilling match. A video before the super over went viral, in which it can be seen that Dravidians are talking to the players, but Sanju Samson looks different from this group. This was an important time and with such a video of this time, fans were speculating that perhaps everything is not good between the two, although Dravid has now described it as baseless.