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IPL 2025: Indian Premier League has become more interesting after the playoff fight is over. The victory of Lucknow Supergiants on Gujarat Titans has given RCB and Punjab Kings a chance to jump happily.

IPL 2025: Lucknow’s victory over Gujarat has given RCB a chance to be happy. (PTI)
Highlights
- Lucknow Supergiants defeated Gujarat Titans by 33 runs.
- This is the third defeat of Gujarat in IPL 2025.
- The defeat of Gujarat made RCB and Punjab happy.
New Delhi. The Indian Premier League 2025 has become interesting after the playoffs are over. Now the 4 teams who have qualified for the playoffs are struggled to come on top-2 and the teams below are enjoying spoiling the game. Lucknow Supergiants (LSG) did the same on Thursday. Rishabh Pant’s team itself is out of the playoffs, but he has also spoiled his game to a great extent by defeating Gujarat Titans (GT). When LSG defeated Gujarat, two teams must have been more happy than its players. These teams are Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Punjab Kings (PBKS). Let’s know why this happened.
Now it is not hidden from anyone that four teams have qualified for the playoffs of IPL 2025. These teams are Gujarat Titans, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians. Now there is a war in these four teams to reach the top-2. The advantage of staying in the top-2 is that even if he loses a match in the playoffs, he gets another chance to reach the final.
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Why RCB and Punjab are happy
In the IPL point table, RCB currently has 17 points from 12 matches. If he wins both his matches, he will get 21 points, which will be guaranteed to come in the top-2. RCB is yet to play matches with Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Supergiants. Like RCB, Punjab Kings also have two matches left. He also has 17 points. If he wins the rest of his remaining matches, then he will also get 17 points. He has to play matches from Delhi and Mumbai. If RCB and Punjab Kings win both their matches, they will finish in the top-2.
Mumbai is expecting miracle
The Gujarat Titans is currently at number one with 18 points in the IPL point table. He has played his 13 matches. Now he has only one match left. If she wins her last match, she can reach 20 points. The last match of Gujarat Titans is from Chennai Super Kings, in which he is a winner of victory. Mumbai Indians currently have 16 points from 13 matches. She can come in the top-2 only when winning their match and defeating all their matches. Its possibility is very low. Therefore, fans of Mumbai can only expect a miracle.

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Active in journalism for two decades. Responsibility of Sports as Associate Editor Sports in News18Hindi from April 2020. Page-1 in Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala newspapers before News18 Hindi, Sports, India and abroad, Election D … Read more