Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has added that the revised schedule for the rest of the IPL 2025 has seemingly disadvantaged the RCB as well. However, he shared that the change has instead helped the three-time runners-up as well. With 16 points from 11 games, RCB are placed second now on the IPL 2025 points
table.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “RCB were supposed to play their last game at home. That match was against KKR. Now that’s not the case. They will play their home matches first now, and their last match will be against Lucknow in Lucknow. If you see it from that point of view, they are hard done by. However, I am saying they have benefited. They don’t play very well at home in any case, and they haven’t yet lost away. They have won all six. More importantly, they are playing the league’s last game. The last league game is RCB vs LSG.”
“If RCB need to reach a particular net run rate to qualify for the top two at that stage, I am just hoping that the qualification would have happened by then and even if it wouldn’t have, they would know the margin with which they would need to win to qualify or finish in the top two,” he further added.

In the same video, Aakash Chopra also shared that the revised IPL 2025 schedule has potentially disadvantaged the Gujarat Titans (GT) as well.
“Gujarat had a match on the last day. Not the last match, but they had an afternoon match on the last league day. Now that’s not the case. Now they don’t have it on the second-last or the last day. So it could be a problem for them for sure because what is in RCB’s benefit was in GT’s benefit earlier, but it’s no longer in GT’s benefit. The good thing for GT is that their home games remain at home,” Aakash Chopra concluded.