Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants squared off in the 48th game of the IPL 2024. Super Giants comfortably won this game. To qualify for the playoffs, the Mumbai Indians needed to win this game at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. However, following this loss, Mumbai’s route to the postseason has become considerably more challenging.
What is the Mumbai Indians’ qualifying formula?
The Mumbai Indians have lost ten games. Mumbai needed to win five straight games beginning with the tenth game to advance to the playoffs. But they only dropped one of these five games. From that point on, the Mumbai Indians’ road to IPL 2024 playoff qualification became extremely challenging. Mumbai will now need to prevail in the remaining four matches and pray for the other teams’ defeat. This is because even if they win all four matches, their points will remain at 14.
The five-time IPL champion Mumbai Indians
have struggled to perform well this season according to the points table. The team has played ten games this season under the guidance of Hardik Pandya; they have won three and lost seven. Mumbai has six points and a net run rate of -0.272. Mumbai Indians, with six points, are ranked ninth in the points standings.
The Lucknow Super Giants are in the standings
One of the top teams vying to make the playoffs this year is the Lucknow Super Giants. The group that KL Rahul captains has made it to the postseason two years in a row. This season, Lucknow has also participated in ten games. Throughout these ten games, they lost four matches and won 6 matches. Super Giants have 12 points with a +0.094 net run rate. At present Lucknow is in third place in the points table. Now Lucknow needs only 2 wins to reach the playoffs. Their next match will be very important against Kolkata Knight Riders.
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