Rajasthan’s Stunning Victory Over Chennai In IPL 2021
Rajasthan’s stunning victory over Chennai led to a big change in the points table, know what is the status of the team.
The race for the playoffs of the 14th season of the Indian Premier League is on. Rajasthan Royals’ scintillating win against Chennai Super Kings on Saturday saw a major upset in the points table.
After winning this match, the team has reached 10 points and now it has managed to occupy the points table above the Mumbai team.
After this victory, the trouble of not only Mumbai but Kolkata and Punjab has increased.
In the match played on Saturday evening, Rajasthan’s team won against Chennai by easily achieving a big score of 190 runs.
With this win, not only did the team get 2 points but its net run rate also increased significantly. Chennai had set a target of 190 runs on the back of Rituraj Gaikwad’s century.
Rajasthan team achieved this target in a stormy manner on the basis of the explosive batting of opener Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shivam Dubey and won by 7 wickets.
Rajasthan’s stunning victory: Points table change.
At present, looking at the points table, Chennai’s team is in first place with 18 points after winning 9 matches out of 12.
After this, there is the team of Delhi, they have also scored 18 points from 9 wins in 12 matches, but Chennai is in the first place due to better net rate.
The third place is held by the Royal Challengers Bangalore team which has 14 points in its account after 7 wins from 11 matches.
Kolkata’s team is at number four, after playing 12 matches, they have won 5 and scored 10 points.
After this, there is the team of Punjab, which has the same number of points in its account by playing the same match as Kolkata.
The sixth-place has been made by the team of Rajasthan, which was running at number seven till now.
He has benefited from a thumping win over Chennai. Mumbai’s team is at number 7 with 10 points. On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad has 4 points in eighth place and is out of this race.
The playoff race was more interesting.
Currently, only Chennai and Delhi teams have officially confirmed their place in the playoffs. The battle is on for the remaining two places.
The arrival of Bangalore is believed to be fixed, he has 14 points and is yet to play the most 3 matches from the team.
After this, the battle for a place continues between Kolkata, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Mumbai.
On Sunday afternoon, the team of Punjab will go to play against Bangalore, if they win, they will remain in the race for the playoffs, but if they lose then the journey in the tournament will end.
