The task ahead of Sunrisers Hyderabad is very simple - win their final game against Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here tonight and take their place in the playoffs as the fourth-placed team. If SRH win, the mathematical chances of the other teams are bleak and they can be safely ignored.

Wooden spoon for RCB?

RCB however, in all probability, will end up with the wooden spoon irrespective of tonight's result. They have been bad with the bat at times, poor with the ball on many more occasions but all that was made worse either by wrong team selection or non-optimal use of the personnel chosen.