{"id":168760,"date":"2026-05-17T20:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=168760"},"modified":"2026-05-17T20:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:12:06","slug":"ipl-2026-royal-challengers-bengaluru-become-first-team-to-qualify-for-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=168760","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Royal Challengers Bengaluru become first team to qualify for Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70990343\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Royal Challengers Bengaluru became the first team to qualify for the IPL 2026 Playoffs after a thumping 23 run win against Punjab Kings in Dharamsala on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>RCB now has 18 points from 13 matches, enough to seal a spot in the top four.<\/p>\n<p>The defending champion has picked up from right where it left off last season, putting in consistent performances and picking up nine wins so far in the process.<\/p>\n<p>RCB can seal a top two finish if it can win its last game of the league stage against Sunrisers Hyderabad on May 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 17, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/playoffs-top-four-qualification-ipl-2026-royal-challengers-bengaluru-pbks-vs-rcb\/article70990343.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Challengers Bengaluru became the first team to qualify for the IPL 2026 Playoffs after a thumping 23 run win against Punjab Kings in Dharamsala on Sunday. RCB now has 18 points from 13 matches, enough to seal a spot in the top four. The defending champion has picked up from right where it left&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/31_RVM_0326.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-HTW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}