Mumbai: IPLAfter the 54th match, two of the ten teams were eliminated. Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Supergiants were both knocked out of the playoff race in the tournament. On this day, Lucknow lost the first match against Chennai Super Kings. And in the second match Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Mumbai Indians. And with these two losses, the two teams from the bottom of the points table were eliminated from the race for the playoffs. Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Supergiants will play the rest of the matches as a rule of thumb.

In the first match of the day, Josh English played a fast innings for Lucknow Supergiants, batting first against Chennai Super Kings. He played an innings of 85 runs off 33 balls. Shahbaz Ahmed played an innings of 43 runs off 25 balls in the lower order. As a result, Lucknow’s score reached 203. Urvil Patel was the best performer for Chennai in chasing that run. Ruturaj and Samson got off to a good start but Urvill ran rampant with the bat. He played an innings of 65 runs off 23 balls. His innings is the foundation of CSK’s victory.

In the second match, there was a close fight between RCB and Mumbai. Hardik Pandya Couldn’t play even today. As his replacement, Suryakumar Yadav took charge that day as well. Batting first, Mumbai could not score big runs. Suryakumar could not open the account. Got out on the first ball. On the back of Tilak Verma’s half-century and Naman Dhir’s 47 runs, the Mumbai camp lost 7 wickets and took 166 runs on the board. Bhuvneshwar Kumar alone took 4 wickets for RCB. In reply, 2 runs were needed off the last ball to chase down the run. Bengaluru won the match with 2 runs in the last ball despite losing eight wickets.