New Delhi. Royal Challengers Bangalore's dream was shattered again. Rajasthan Royals defeated them in the IPL Eliminator and made it to Qualifier 2. The players of the RCB team, who entered the playoffs after winning 6 consecutive matches, are unable to forget the sorrow of defeat at this time. The dreams of the RCB players were shattered by the 4-wicket defeat against Rajasthan at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The dream which this team had been seeing for the last 17 years. After the defeat, there was disappointment on the faces of all the players including star batsman Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik, Glenn Maxwell and captain Faf du Plessis. RCB has released a 3-minute video in which all the players of the team are seen frustrated and upset.

RCB has posted a video of the dressing room after the match on social media x.com. The video starts with the entry of Glenn Maxwell. Maxwell enters the dressing room by punching the door. All the players are seen sitting with sad faces. Everyone's shoulders are bowed down. RCB captain Faf du Plessis, wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik and Virat Kohli were seen thanking their fans. Kohli can be heard saying that the first half of the IPL was bad for his team but in the second half the players played for self-respect.

'We should be proud of ourselves'

Virat Kohli says in the video that we are proud of the way all the players worked hard and qualified for the playoffs. Virat said that I will always remember the way we qualified for the playoffs. Virat scored the most runs in this IPL, more than 700. He hit 5 half-centuries including a century. Virat became the first batsman to complete 8 thousand runs in IPL. He batted brilliantly in the second half of IPL.

'There is no fairy tale ending in sports'

Dinesh Karthik said that when RCB entered the playoffs by winning 6 consecutive matches, he felt that this season could be theirs. But that did not happen. Karthik said that there cannot be a fairy tale ending in sports. Karthik was given the role of finisher by RCB but he could not fulfill it.