New Delhi: The team of Delhi Capitals easily defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2020 on Monday. He won the match played on Monday by 6 wickets. With this victory, Delhi Capitals has secured a place in the IPL Playoffs of the tournament. The Delhi Capitals team now has 16 points. He is now second in the points table (IPL 2020 Point Table) after Mumbai Indians (18).
Interestingly, the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) team has reached the IPL Playoff even after losing. Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders have an equal score of 14-14 in the points table. When the points are equal, the net run rate becomes important, in which Virat Kohli’s ‘Royal Challengers’ proved to be better.
In fact, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli knew that if his team lost, the net run rate would be crucial. Batting first, Bangalore scored 152 runs. To reach the playoffs, he had to either win or not allow Delhi to win before 17.3 overs. Bangalore did not win, but they did not allow Delhi to win before 17.3 overs. Even after losing like this, his run rate remained above Kolkata.
After 55 matches in IPL 2020, Mumbai is number one and Delhi is number two in the IPL Point Table. It is followed by Bangalore and Kolkata with 14-14 points. The run rate of Bangalore is minus 0.172. Kolkata’s run rate is minus 0.214. Delhi won the match by 154 runs for 4 wickets in 19 overs. If she had won this match 9 balls earlier, the run rate of Bangalore team would have been less than that of Kolkata.
Now the possibility of Kolkata Knight Riders playing in the playoffs has been fixed on the 56th i.e. last league match of the tournament. The match will be between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians (SRH vs MI) on Tuesday. The run rate of Sunrisers Hyderabad is higher than that of Kolkata. So if the Hyderabad team wins, it will qualify for the playoffs. If Mumbai team wins then Kolkata’s way to play in the playoffs will be clear.
