IPL 2024 Playoffs Scenario: How RCB Can Still Finish In Top 4

Royal Challengers Bengaluru's campaign IPL 2024 campaign went from bad to worse as the Faf Du Plessis-led side slumped to their seventh loss in eight matches. RCB were defeated narrowly by Kolkata Knight Riders on Sunday and as a result, they remain at the bottom of the IPL 2024 points table. RCB currently have just 2 points from 8 matches with a Net Run Rate  (NRR) of -1.046. This result was a huge blow to RCB's hopes of reaching the playoffs but the dream is not completely over. However, right now, their fortunes in the competition are no longer completely in their own hands.

RCB have 6 games remaining in IPL 2024 and six victories will take them to 14 points. Generally, it is considered that teams need 16 points to reach the IPL playoff stage. However, it is possible for teams to qualify with even 14 points but that will require a lot of other results to go in RCB's favour.

So, the path ahead is quite clear for RCB - win all of their remaining games and hope that the other results go their way to create a situation where they can reach the Top 4 with 14 points.

Coming to the match, KKR posted 222/6 thanks to good knocks from Phil Salt and Shreyas Iyer before Andre Russell took three wickets to clinch the victory for the hosts.

"It was crazy, rules are rules, Virat and myself thought that the ball was higher than the waist (on Kohli's dismissal), I guess they measured from the popping crease, one team thinks it's high, the other doesn't. That's how the game goes at times," Faf said at the post-match presentation.

"Then the partnership, it was magnificent (on the Jacks-Patidar partnership), but when you don't win too many games, some sort of panic sets in and the Narine over was game-changing. You don't feel that you