Mumbai will be out of the playoff race! Equations changed after Lucknow’s victory

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The points table of IPL 2023 has become interesting from now on. Now the result of the match between Lucknow and Mumbai has made it more interesting. Lucknow defeated Mumbai and with it came a new turn in the points table. Now the 5-time champion team Mumbai Indians is in danger of being thrown out of the tournament.

There will be no surprise if the Mumbai team is out of the tournament. After the defeat against Lucknow, he now has 14 points after 13 matches. Meaning now even if they beat SRH in their last group match, they can only score 16 points.

MI out if CSK, LSG and RCB win

Now if Chennai Super Kings and Lucknow Super Giants win their remaining 1 match and RCB wins the last two matches then Mumbai Indians will be out again. Both RCB and MI can reach a maximum of 16 points. In such a situation, the run rate will be patched, due to which Mumbai Indians will be shocked, because their run rate is in minus and RCB is in plus.

RCB won by a narrow margin and SRH lost by 80 runs

Now the question is how can the run rate of Mumbai Indians improve? For this, if RCB wins its last two matches, then its margin should not be more than 10 runs. So the Mumbai team should beat SRH by at least 80 runs. In such a situation, he can leave RCB behind in terms of run rate. Although it seems a bit difficult to do so.

CSK, LSG, RCB and PBKS lose any two of their remaining matches

The easiest way for Mumbai Indians to qualify for the playoffs was for them to win both their remaining matches. But, where Mumbai has lost a match, now Mumbai will have to depend on the wins and losses of other teams.

The Mumbai team will have to win the last league match against SRH and then pray that any two teams from CSK, LSG, RCB and PBKS lose their remaining matches.

If they lose against SRH, RCB and PBKS will have to target defeat

If Mumbai Indians lose against SRH, they will have only 14 points. In such a situation, he will have to pray that RCB and PBKS lose one match each. Even in this, the loss of RCB should be so big that their run rate falls in comparison to that.