Only this team can win Eliminator, Qualifier-2 and Final in IPL, will RCB be able to achieve this feat?
This season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has now reached its final stage. All the league matches have been completed. Out of which the teams of Qualifier-1 and Eliminator have been decided. The teams that have reached Qualifier-1 are Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad. (SRH). The match between KKR and SRH will be played in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. Whereas in the eliminator, the teams of Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will face each other on May 22.
Sunrisers have won the Eliminator, Qualifier-2 and the Final.
R. C.B. Today’s team is standing at almost the same place where Sunrisers Hyderabad team once stood. Do you know that Sunrisers is the first team in the history of IPL, which has won all three eliminators, Qualifier-2 and the final. Sunrisers had achieved this feat in IPL 2016. The special thing is that then RCB played Qualifier-1. In which he won and made it to the finals. Whereas SRH made it to the final by winning Eliminator and Qualifier-2. In the final between the two teams, Sunrisers Hyderabad won the trophy by 8 runs.
RCB has always dominated
However, this time the teams of Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore will face each other in the eliminator. If we talk about the matches between Rajasthan and Bengaluru teams till now, RCB has always been dominant. 31 matches have been played between the two teams. Out of which Bengaluru has won 15 and Rajasthan has won 13 matches. Three matches have been inconclusive.
Have faced each other twice in the playoffs
Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore have faced each other twice in the IPL playoffs. Both the teams have defeated each other once. RCB-RR first faced each other in an eliminator match in the year 2015. After this RCB defeated RR by 71 runs. After this, both the teams faced each other in the second qualifier of IPL 2022. In this match, RCB had to face defeat by 7 wickets. Let us tell you that RCB has not won a single IPL trophy till now. It reached the final in 2009, 2011 and 2016, but lost.