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LSG vs RCB: Royal Challengers Bangalore have reached the playoffs for the third consecutive season and coincidentally the team has finished fourth in these three seasons and had to play the Eliminator match.
Royal Challengers Bangalore are waiting for their first IPL title. The team is also presenting a claim for this in IPL 2022, but its path is not easy. By the way, the title is the last stop, before that the team will have to reach the final, where Bangalore has not been able to reach for the last 5 seasons. Since playing the final for the last time in 2016, this team has not been able to reach the title even once. In the last two seasons, the team had a chance, but they lost that opportunity by losing in the Eliminator. Once again there is an obstacle in the way of the Eliminator in Bangalore, where it will face the Lucknow Super Giants. If he has to register a win here, then he has to avoid the mistake he made on the last two occasions.
Faf du Plessis captained Bangalore made it to the playoffs after winning their last match and then defeating Delhi Capitals. Bangalore was in the last ie fourth place in the playoffs. This means that the team will have to play the Eliminator match from Lucknow, which is at number three. The rule of the Eliminator match is such that if you lose here, you will be eliminated from the tournament. In such a situation, this is a very important match for both the teams and will have to win at any cost.
Same mistake in 2020 and 2021
Lucknow is the new team of the tournament but Bangalore is one of the oldest teams in the league. The team also has a lot of playoff experience. However, his recent experiences were not good. Earlier, Bangalore had made it to the playoffs in 2020 and 2021 and coincidentally in both these seasons too, the team played the eliminator and was eliminated there. There was one common factor in the team’s defeat in both these matches, which was its biggest mistake and which will have to be avoided again this time.
In the eliminator of both these seasons, Bangalore had batted first after losing the toss and both times the team failed to score big. Bangalore scored only 131 runs against Hyderabad in 2020, while only 138 runs in 2021.
big score is important
With such a score obviously there was bound to be defeat. Now here it is being called a mistake because even if Bangalore had scored 150 runs in both these matches, then there would have been chances of it winning because both the times Bangalore bowlers were successful in dragging the match till the last over. That is, if the team had a few more runs, then the victory would have been achieved. Now winning the toss is not in anyone’s hands, but after that the performance is in its own hands and Bangalore will have to learn from the mistakes of these two matches and look for a big score in the batting position first.
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