Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings teams are out of the playoff race this season.
Mumbai Indians, led by Hardik Pandya, defeated Rajasthan Royals by 100 runs in the 50th match of IPL 2025. With this win, MI has overtaken Royal Challengers Bangalore in the points table and reached number-1. This is Mumbai’s 7th win in 11 matches. On the other hand, Rajasthan’s team is out of the tournament with this defeat.
RR has become the second team of IPL 2025 to be out of the playoff race, before them 5-time champion Chennai Super Kings has been eliminated from the tournament. Talking about the top-4, at present, apart from Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore, Punjab Kings and Gujarat Titans are present here. Mumbai and Bangalore have 14-14 points in their account, while Punjab and Gujarat have 13 and 12 points respectively.
Despite RR and CSK being out, the playoff race is full of excitement as the battle between 8 teams is still going on for the top-4 position. However, the real fight is between the top-5 teams only. Any of the top-5 teams can reach the playoff race right now.
IPL 2025 Points Table after RR vs MI match
| Team | Matches played | Won matches | lost the match | inconclusive | score | Net run rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mumbai Indians | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 14 | +1.274 |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 14 | +0.521 |
| Punjab Kings | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 13 | +0.199 |
| Gujarat Titans | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 12 | +0.748 |
| Delhi Capitals | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 12 | +0.362 |
| Lucknow Super Giants | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | -0.325 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 9 | +0.080 |
| Rajasthan Royals (E) | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 6 | -0.780 |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 6 | -1.103 |
| Chennai Super Kings (E) | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 4 | -1.211 |
RR vs MI: This is how the match went
After losing the toss and batting first, Mumbai Indians scored 217 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs with the help of half-centuries from Rohit Sharma and Ryle Rickelton. Apart from Rohit and Rickelton, Suryakumar Yadav and captain Hardik Pandya played unbeaten innings of 48-48 runs.
Chasing this score, Rajasthan Royals were badly disappointed by their batsmen. RR’s poor batting can be gauged from the fact that Jofra Archer was their highest run scorer with 30 runs. Trent Boult took 3 wickets to destroy Rajasthan’s batting order. Apart from him, Karan Sharma also got the same number of successes.
