Delhi Capitals (DC) win over Punjab Kings (PBKS) on Wednesday evening has opened the door for a risk of one other explosive conflict between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) within the ongoing IPL 2023. But for that to occur as soon as once more, RCB must win each their remaining matches, beginning with the primary one towards Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Thursday evening.
RCB are at present in fifth place on the IPL 2023 Points Table with 12 factors in 12 matches up to now. A few wins over SRH and Gujarat Titans of their final match will take them to 16 factors and assist them qualify for the Playoffs. For a RCB vs LSG Playoff recreation to happen, Krunal Pandya’s Lucknow facet must lose to Kolkata Knight Riders of their final recreation.
Apart from this MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings additionally must win their final recreation towards Delhi Capitals on Saturday whereas SRH must beat Mumbai Indians on the Wankhede Stadium this weekend. If all of those eventualities happen, then followers can count on one other explosive in a ‘do-or-die’ Eliminator match subsequent week.
RCB Vs LSG within the Eliminator if:
– RCB beat each SRH and GT.
– CSK beat DC.
– KKR beat LSG.
– SRH beat MI.
– DC or RR beat PBKS. pic.twitter.com/vs78xJt9uU
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) May 17, 2023
The final match between RCB and LSG ended with ugly scenes off the sphere with a conflict between RCB batter Virat Kohli and Lucknow mentor Gautam Gambhir. Both Kohli and Gambhir had been fined 100 per cent of their match charges after the match whereas LSG pacer Naveen-ul-haq was additionally docked 50 per cent of his match charges.
The incident got here 10 years after their altercation within the IPL throughout RCB’s match towards Kolkata Knight Riders in Bengaluru. Kohli now performs for RCB as a batter after giving up captaincy to Faf du Plessis in 2022, and Gambhir is retired and works as the worldwide mentor with KL Rahul-led LSG.
While the gamers had been shaking fingers after the sport, there appeared to be phrases exchanged between LSG bowler Naveen-ul-Haq and Kohli. This was adopted by Gambhir pulling away his facet’s opening batter Kyle Mayers from a chat with Kohli.
All hell broke lose after that as Gambhir was seen approaching Kohli aggressively along with his gamers, together with the injured captain KL Rahul and Amit Mishra, restraining him. With the 2 dealing with off, Kohli was seen making an attempt to pacify Gambhir however fairly than cooling off, the matter began to boil over earlier than Amit Mishra stepped in and separated the duo.
