Vijay Mallya: In IPL 2024, a knockout match was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings (RCB vs CSK) on Saturday. To enter the playoffs, both teams needed to win this match. But RCB played brilliantly and won the match by 27 runs.

Bengaluru had won only 1 out of the first 8 matches this season, while they won their next 6 matches consecutively to earn a ticket to the playoffs. After this, well-known personalities from other fields including cricket congratulated the team through social media. Meanwhile, former owner of Royal Challengers Bangalore Vijay Mallya has also congratulated the team.

Vijay Mallya became happy

After Royal Challengers Bangalore's big win against Chennai Super Kings, Vijay Mallya shared a post on social media platform X and wrote,

“Hearty congratulations to RCB for qualifying for the top four and reaching the IPL playoffs. After a disappointing start to the tournament, the team's determination and skill built the winning momentum. Now from here we have to move forward for the trophy.”

Vijay Mallya was the owner of RCB

Let us tell you that Vijay Mallya became the owner of Royal Challengers franchise in 2008. Mallya was then also the chairman of Kingfisher Airlines and United Spirits. He often came to the stadium to watch RCB matches and encouraged the players. But in 2016 he was declared a loan defaulter. At the same time, Mallya left India and went to England and from there, he comments on the activities happening in India through social media.

RCB recorded a great win

It is noteworthy that CSK had to win this match to reach the playoffs, but for RCB there were some conditions along with the victory. They had to win the match by a margin of 18 runs or achieve the target in 18.1 overs while chasing. But in the match, Bengaluru batted first and scored 218 runs in 20 overs. In response to this, Chennai took the match very close. They needed 17 runs in the last over to progress to the next stage of IPL 2024 and 35 runs to win. But Yash Dayal spent only 7 runs and gave his team a historic victory.