The turnaround that Royal Challengers Bengaluru made with six wins on the trot to earn a playoffs berth has made their IPL campaign a "special journey" and will inspire other teams too, believes Dinesh Karthik.

RCB, losing seven of their first eight games including six defeats in a row, came back from the brink of elimination and will be playing the Eliminator on Wednesday in Ahmedabad.

"Every year in this tournament, when you hit the seven-game mark, there will be one or two teams that would have probably won one or two and they will look to us and say, 'RCB did it. That was special. We are going to try and repeat what RCB did'," the wicketkeeper-batsman said in a RCB release.

"We have it within our grasp to do something that people will remember us for. It will be a journey where people will say, 'Wow, that RCB team was special'. We are on that journey," Karthik added.