The Road ahead for the teams

Royal Challengers will play this away tie with Kings XI Punjab at the Holkar Stadium, Indore. After that, they will the table-toppers Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. RCB will then travel to Jaipur to end their campaign with the last match against RR. RCB needs to win all their matches.

Kings XI Punjab after this tie at home against RCB will travel in Maharashtra. They will first reach Mumbai and take on the home team. Then, Punjab will have to get down at Pune to face the Chennai Super Kings. KXIP needs to win at least two of these matches.