IPL 2024 Power Rankings #8: Head and Sharma do it again, KKR and RCB on fire & the playoff push

The Top Order Cricket Podcast

In this episode of the show, Binksy and Stu look back at another week that was in IPL 2024.

Recorded on 13 May, we rank all 10 teams into 3 tiers, as we unpack the key themes emerging from this tournament as a whole as during the lead-in to the playoffs.

• Are the Kolkata Knight Riders in a tier of their own now?
• The Rajasthan Royals keep losing!
• Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head hit 30 boundaries from 58 balls in a big Sunrisers Hyderabad win - is this a sign of things to come at the T20 World Cup?
• The Royal Challengers Bengaluru have won 5 in a row and look like a completely different team now from the start of the tournament - can they sneak into the playoffs?
• Are the Chennai Super Kings good?
• David Warner is back for the Delhi Capitals, but they need a lot to go their way in the final week
• Lucknow Super Giants have fallen out of the top 4 after a crushing loss against SRH
• Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan provided a rare highlight for the Gujarat Titans in 2024
• Should Team India be worried about the form of Mumbai Indians' stars Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya?
• The Punjab Kings are an IPL team
• And much more!

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0:00 Intro

4:00 KKR - Are they in a tier of their own now?

8:50 SRH - Will Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma's approach carry through to the T20 World Cup

12:40 RR - How much will momentum matter in the knockout games?

22:10 RCB - Five wins in a row

25:10 CSK - Are they good? Or not?

31:55 DC - A long shot now

32:40 LSG - Still a chance, but a huge run-rate hit against SRH

36:00 GT - Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan's partnership - are hundreds even special anymore?

39:45 MI - Should Team India worry about the form of Hardik and Rohit?

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