Royal Challengers Bangalore are three-time IPL finalists, but haven’t managed to even move past the bottom four positions in their last three IPL seasons, finishing eighth in 2017 and sixth in 2018, and are now at the bottom in IPL 2019 points table with 9 points from 13 games, losing 8 and winning four.
After a soul-crushing start to their season, when CSK bowled them out for 70 in the tournament opener in Chennai, nothing went good for the franchise, which went on to lose six games on a trot before winning one against KXIP. However, Tuesday's contest against Rajasthan Royals sealed their fate and showed them the exit door in what turned out to be another trophy-less season.
Their tie against Rajasthan Royals was rained off in Bengaluru, before being shortened to 5-overs a side, in which RCB, batting first scored 62/7, which included a hat-trick from Shreyas Gopal. In reply, RR put up 41-1 in 3.2 overs, needing 22 more runs in 10 balls but another downpour saw the match instantly called off.
Twitterati was quick to slam the team after they became, the first team to be eliminated from the playoffs and roasted them on Twitter.
Here are some tweets:
