Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals
Today, the 61st match of the Indian Premier League will be between Rajasthan and Chennai. Today is a very important match especially for Chennai because if Chennai lose it will be difficult for them to secure playoffs. Chennai must win today's match if they want to ensure playoffs.
However, Rajasthan has performed well in this tournament but could not perform well in the last 2 matches. Defeated last 2 matches against Hyderabad and Delhi. Today is the first match between Rajasthan and Chennai in this tournament. So there can be a competitive match between these two teams. But I will put Rajasthan team ahead. I think Rajasthan can win today's match.
Although Chennai super king register an important victory but still they are in danger zone because if Dehli won thier ongoing match against RCB then they will match Chennai with points and number of matches played and won but will be just behind by net run rate but may be possibly they get a huge margin victory which will fix thier negative net run rate issue too so Chennai should pray for RCB to won thier match or just lose against Dehli with low margin so just they will hold thier standing position. Anyway Rajasthan lose thier third consecutive match of the tournament after long winning streak which will definitely effect them and may be possibly they lost Thier momentum and knocked out as soon as possible in semifinals so things are becoming more spicy and unprecedented hope so we will have deserving winner at the end of the tournament
With the loss of RR against CSK, the most benefit of it is felt by KKR, who are on track of getting that final place match without playing elimination playoffs. KKR are still to play one match with RR and even though they lose, they can have the spot with a better Net run rate than RR.
RR on the other hand is still safe for qualifying to play off, they are still 2 points ahead of other teams and have 1 match less played than CSK.
The final spot for playoff would be more contested one as CSK, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Lucknow Supergiants and Delhi Capitals are fighting for it.