Delhi: In the last league match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) had to face defeat against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). With this, CSK was out of the tournament and Dhoni's stalwarts have not been able to secure their place in the playoffs. After this defeat of the team, many questions are bound to be raised on the batting order of the great finisher Mahendra Singh Dhoni, because why did he come to bat lower in the order even in such an important match. If Dhoni had come higher in the batting order, perhaps the result of the match could have been different.

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Before Dhoni, Mitchell Santner was sent, who scored only 3 runs on 4 balls. Then Mahi came and played an inning of 25 runs in 13 balls, which was insufficient to give victory to his team. However, before getting out in the last over, he also hit a 110 meter long six.

CSK needed 201 runs to reach the playoffs and could score only 191 runs. The team lagged behind by just 10 runs. In this match, Royal Challengers Bangalore, batting first, scored 218 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs, in response, Chennai Super Kings team could only score 191 runs at the loss of 7 wickets. Ravindra Jadeja remained unbeaten after scoring 42* runs on 22 balls, but could not lead the team to victory.

What was the equation for both the teams to qualify for the playoffs?

Actually, RCB had to defeat CSK, who batted first, by a margin of 18 runs or more and CSK had to reach 201 runs in 20 overs to qualify for the playoffs. If this had happened, the yellow jersey team could have made it to the top four, but it did not happen.

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