New Delhi, Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Chennai Super Kings by 27 runs in a crucial match and made it to the playoffs of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. In this do or die match played on Saturday at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, RCB lost the toss and batted first and scored 218 runs for 5 wickets and then restricted Chennai to 191 runs for seven wickets in the entire 20 overs.

Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad had already confirmed their place in the playoffs, now the Royal Challengers Bangalore team has also become the fourth team to reach the playoffs by defeating Chennai Super Kings. This was RCB's seventh win in 14 matches and now it has 14 points.

Chennai, Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants also had 14 points each after 14 matches, but Bangalore had the best net run rate among them and due to this, the RCB team qualified for the playoffs with a run rate of +0.459 with 14 points after seven wins and seven losses in 14 matches.

Chennai had to score 219 runs to win the match and 201 runs to reach the playoffs. Chasing this target, the Super Kings had a very bad start and the team lost the wicket of their captain Rituraj Gaikwad (0) on the very first ball. After this, Chennai also lost their second wicket in the form of Daryl Mitchell (4) on the score of 19 runs. However, after this Ajinkya Rahane (33) and Rachin Ravindra (61) took Chennai out of trouble with a partnership of 66 runs in 41 balls for the third wicket.

Rahane became the victim of Lockie Ferguson on the first ball of the 10th over. Rahane hit three fours and a six in 22 balls. After his dismissal, Shivam Dubey (7) came to bat. Both added 30 runs for the fourth wicket. But due to miscoordination on the last ball of the 13th over, Dubey got Ravindra run out. Ravindra hit five fours and three sixes in 37 balls.

Chennai needed 104 runs in the last seven overs to win and it had six wickets remaining. Dubey, who got Ravindra run out, could not do anything special himself and was out after playing 15 balls after scoring only seven runs. As soon as Dubey was out, Chennai got into big trouble because its five wickets were out. The team had to score 94 runs to win in the last six overs and it had two explosive batsmen in the form of Ravindra Jadeja and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.