IPL 2020 Playoff Scenarios: Four-way fight for fourth spot
IPL 2020 Playoffs race: Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Rajasthan Royals by eight wickets to move to eight points after 10 games and kept its playoff hopes alive.
Published : Oct 22, 2020 23:00 IST
With less than two weeks left for the round-robin stage of IPL 2020 to end, there's every likelihood that three teams - Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals - will make it to the playoffs.
Of the five others, four teams - Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rajasthan Royals, Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab - have a realistic shot at clinching the final spot while Chennai Super Kings is hanging by a thread.
Sunrisers eased past Royals by eight wickets to climb to the fifth spot with eight points from 10 games, fighting back after the heart-breaking Super Over loss to Knight Riders in their previous game.
Mumbai, by winning Friday's game against bottom-placed Chennai, will retain the No. 1 spot, thanks to its high Net Run Rate (+1.201 to Delhi's 0.774). That would also put a playoff spot mathematically and practically out of the reach of Dhoni's men.
This weekend double-headers, especially the game between Hyderabad and Punjab, should make for interesting and exciting action since the latter has found its mojo after morale-shattering defeats in the early part of the competition. Warner's Orange Army, too, will be buoyed by its win over Steve Smith's men.
IPL 2020 Points Table
| TEAMS | P | W | L | Points | NRR |
| Delhi Capitals | 10 | 7 | 3 | 14 | +0.774 |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | 10 | 7 | 3 | 14 | +0.182 |
| Mumbai Indians | 9 | 6 | 3 | 12 | +1.201 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 10 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -0.828 |
| S unrisers Hyderabad | 10 | 4 | 6 | 8 | +0.092 |
| Kings XI Punjab | 10 | 4 | 6 | 8 | -0.177 |
| Rajasthan Royals | 11 | 4 | 7 | 8 | -0.620 |
| Chennai Super Kings | 10 | 3 | 7 | 6 | -0.463 |