That's it from the coverage of this game. Punjab Kings have been eliminated while RoyalChallengers Bengaluru keeps their hopes alive in the competition. Tomorrow, we will have Gujarat Titans up against Chennai SuperKings live from Ahmedabad in an important game. Do join us for this clash and for other fixtures around the globe, stick around to our network.
For now, this is Ayan Chatterjee signing off on behalf of my co-commentators AkshayaKrishna Polya and Akshay Bhide alongside scorer/analyst ParasYadav. Stay safe, happy, and cool. Goodnight and CHEERS!
Punjab Kings has failed to make the playoffs for the 10th consecutive time.
Virat Kohli wins his 18th Player of the Match award in IPL.
ViratKohli (Player of the Match): "No, not at all. For me, it's quality over quantity works at my age of 36. Practice less and then certain aspects you want to get better. Need to improve on things as we go along.
I brought out the slog sweep and brought it out. I did not practice it at all. I want to keep getting the gaps. Those shots helps me maintain good strike rate in the middle overs.
Honestly, the only way to go through the tournament is being honest with ourselves. We were awful in the first half and then had a chat amongst ourselves. It started in Kolkata and now it's going on from there. We bowled really well in the Kolkata game.
We want to make our fans proud and raise our levels. We are on a roll now but we have to depend on other factors as well. That's the sad thing. We do not want to depend on other results but that's the way it is. Thank You."
PLAYER OF THE MATCH: VIRAT KOHLI
Faf du Plessis (Royal Challengers Bengaluru Captain): "Yeah, it was a really good game. After losing the toss and to get to 240 was a very good effort.
We thought we were making the same mistakes again and again. With the ball, we didnβt get enough wickets in the powerplay. We thought on how we could get wickets in the powerplay. We changed the method and it has worked very well for us.
I have been playing the game for a long time. You need the form to find your feet in the competition. We had a few guys who were looking for some runs and we had a few guys who were looking for wickets. But everyone has chipped in with the bat in hand and in the bowling, it has been the same.