Royal Challengers Bangalore’s performance in IPL 2024 has gone from bad to worse as the Faf Du Plessis-led side suffered its seventh defeat in eight games. RCB were narrowly beaten by Kolkata Knight Riders on Sunday and hence they remain at the bottom of the IPL 2024 points table. RCB currently has just 2 points from 8 games and has a net run rate (NRR) of -1.046. The result dealt a huge blow to RCB’s hopes of making it to the playoffs, but the dream was not entirely over. However, now, their competitive destiny is no longer completely in their own hands.

RCB has 6 games left in IPL 2024 and six wins will take them to 14 points. It is generally believed that a team needs to score 16 points to advance to the IPL playoff stage. However, the team is likely to qualify even with 14 points, but it will require a lot of other results to go in RCB’s favour.

So, the way forward is clear for RCB – win all the remaining games and hope for the rest to finish in the top 4 with 14 points.

Once the match started, KKR posted a record of 222/6 with the brilliant batting of Phil Salt and Shreyas Iyer before Andre Russell took three wickets to seal the victory for the home team.

“It’s crazy, rules are rules, both Virat and myself thought the ball was above waist level (when Kohli was dismissed) and I guess they measured it from the crease as it popped up and one team thought It was high and the other team wasn’t and that’s why the game went at times,” Fife said in his post-match speech.

“Then, (Jakes and Partida’s partnership) worked really well together, but when you don’t win too many games, there’s a certain panic and Narine’s game is a game-changer. You don’t feel like you There’s time to settle down and bat (about the evolution of this IPL season), the game doesn’t allow that and obviously you have an extra batsman, but in a chase like this, you have to keep going.”

“The game against Narine, I thought that was the game-changer. The little things, I was actually proud of the kids tonight, the way we pitched and defended, we did give up a couple big goals down the stretch, But I thought we held them to a par score and we thought we’d work on the batting powerplay and find those boundaries at the start of the innings.”

“We were desperate from an effort standpoint, 10/10, the way we put in the effort on the ground, the faces tell the story. We have an incredible fan base and we want to make them happy and we want them to have They have a smile on their face and we have to keep working hard and try to make a difference.”