What Went Wrong for the 4 teams that missed out on the IPL Playoffs

#3 Royal Challengers Bangalore

RCB's overreliance on ABD and Kohli was their undoing

The first reason for RCB's early exit in the IPL is clearly their bowling. Apart from Umesh Yadav and to some extent Chahal no one really put their hand up when it mattered. You cannot have a great IPL with just one hand a half bowlers.

The second factor in RCB's early exit was that they were unable to make the most of the batting firepower available to them as they just couldn't find the right combination. The IPL restricts the number of overseas players a side is able to field to 4 and this leads to selection issues for all teams.

RCB just couldn't work around this issue. Quinton de Kock and Brendon McCullum who are proven match winners and have the ability to win any game on their own spent a lot of the season sitting in the dugout, from where they could have no impact on the game.

RCB just didn't know what their best XI was and kept chopping and changing which led to them never having a settled unit. When you look at the two best teams SRH and CSK, they rarely changed their playing XI.

Another factor was their over-reliance on the duo of Virat Kohli and ABD. Both of them are great players but the rest of the batting lineup rarely stepped up to the challenge for the Royal Challengers.