With only one slot up for grabs, three groups — Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals — are nonetheless in competition for the Indian Premier League (IPL) playoffs. RR’s league marketing campaign got here to an finish on Friday, following their win over Punjab Kings (PBKS) in Dharamsala. However, RCB are in pole place to take the ultimate playoffs spot in the event that they beat defending champions Gujarat Titans of their ultimate league match on Sunday. MI, alternatively, want a favour from GT, but additionally need to beat SunRisers Hyderabad of their ultimate sport, previous to the match on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

RCB have a greater Net Run Rate (NRR) than MI and RR and win for them would sprint MI and RR’s hopes. But, for RR to undergo to the following spherical, each RCB and MI would want to lose their respective matches with a sure margin.

Taking to Twitter, RR spinner Ravichandran Ashwin summed up the temper in his group’s camp forward of the ultimate spherical of matches on Sunday.

“When you are trying to tell everyone that  Gujarati food should be our favourite and Telugu should become our teams official language for today,” Ashwin captioned a photograph.

When you are attempting to inform everybody that Gujarati meals must be our favorite and Telugu ought to grow to be our groups official language for at present. @rajasthanroyals #HallaBolkonjamnallabol #AavaDe #orangearmy pic.twitter.com/T9K3fMA4a7

— Ashwin (@ashwinravi99) May 21, 2023

RCB, MI and RR are all tied on 14 factors, however the 2008 champions’ video games within the league stage are finished and dusted.

Since Rajasthan’s NRR is best than MI’s, they’d, the one hurdle in entrance of them could be the Royal Challengers. But, if the Faf du Plessis‘ led aspect lose by an inexpensive margin, for the reason that NRR distinction between the 2 sides is not a lot, the Royals will undergo.