Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 56th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

It's never been this close. A side with 12 qualifies at fourth spot and a side with 11 stands last. Also, a side with 18 points will have to play an eliminator with the 12-pointer. Yea, life's cruel. That cruel. It's been that runt, the NRR that's eventually turned doors. So remember the names - Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad - and remember the equations, as I, Vineet Anantharaman, sign off on behalf of Rishi Roy, Sriram AS, Akshay Maanay and our scorer, Shashikant Singh. Until, one last week, ta ta!!

Hardik Pandya | MoM: For sure, getting a Man of the Match for my bowling is really pleasing. To be honest as a batsman, there is nothing better than hitting a ball. People don't expect a lot from my bowling, neither do I, but it feels nice. Krunal was telling me that I generate the power from my hip and core, but I really don't know where I get my power from. Definitely, Chennai is a different challenge, it will be a cracker of a game. We just hope to get the best out of that one and go through to the finals. I definitely look at myself as a four-over bowler, I am ready to do whatever my team wants me to do, bowl four, ten or even fifteen overs in a Test match. We have one more bowling option and it helps when somebody has an off day.

Rohit Sharma | MI skipper: It was the team effort that pleased me the most. We don't depend on a few individuals to take us through, there are a lot of characters who put their hand up and took us through. Today, the entire bowling attack used the pitch and their variations really well to keep a line up like KKR quiet. It is something we know about the IPL that the business end matters, we always come back well in the second half of this tournament. In all the three trophies that we've won, the boys have picked themselves up in the business end. IPL is a funny tournament, any team can beat the other on a day and we want to take few tiny steps. My daughter has been coming here every day to watch me play, but I didn't get a lot of runs earlier. It was nice to get some runs today, but she was sleeping!

Meanwhile, Mumbai aren't waiting for the presentations to do their lap of honour. Their highly efficient owners have already brought out large banners that read 'Thank you to the largest family in the world' and the entire contingent is carrying them around the circumference. It's been a weird stat - every single team has won their last home game.

Tarun: "Winning by a mile or 10 miles doesn't make a difference few say. But SRH proved them wrong. They won matches by 10 miles and lost by a mile. Hence they are in the playoffs." - Well said, mate.

Table toppers each season - 2008: RR (Champions), 2009: DD, 2010: MI, 2011: RCB, 2012: DD, 2013: CSK, 2014: KXIP, 2015: CSK, 2016: GL, 2017: MI (Champions), 2018: SRH, 2019: MI

Kittu: "We are partying in Hyderabad. #HyderabadthanksMumbai."

Most runs against an opponent (IPL):
829 D Warner v KKR
825 V Kohli v Delhi
824 Rohit v KKR **
819 D Warner v KXIP
818 S Raina v KKR

Fewest wickets taken by a team in an IPL season:
56 KKR in 2019 (14 matches)
59 KKR in 2009 (13)
59 Delhi in 2014 (14)
62 RR in 2012 (13)
65 RCB in 2008 (14)

SRH becomes the first side to qualify with 12 points in IPL.
Table topper: MI (18 points)
Wooden spoon: RCB (11 points)
The difference of seven points between table topper and bottom placed team is the fewest ever in an IPL season.

KKR at Wankhede
Played: 9
Won: 1
Lost: 8*

Suryakumar Yadav: That's the role they have given me in this tournament - support the batsmen at the other end and bat as long as possible. Very happy, we will try and continue the same thing going forward. We just wanted to keep things simple and that's what happened. He (Rohit) told me to stay at the crease because the runs will come automatically. He is a senior player and he guided me. The bowlers did a fantastic job, it was a complete team effort. It is going to be a big game (Qualifier 1 against CSK), we will think of it as just as another game. They (MI fans) have been brilliant, when I came out of the hotel today, they were massive in numbers.Thanks to them for all the support.

23:16 Local Time: It doesn't really get any more clinical. After all, the one side that should've been desperate to win, got stuck. Alas, when two cities gang up as tweltfth men behind the home team, there's very little visitors with an already skewed up record of 7-1 against them can do. So there may have been some decent stand out performances, but the one that's bound to stand out and be remembered for ages is the innings Robin Uthappa played -- it was as if he was out there in a puninshment to himself, a real pale shadow of his former flashy, cocky self, going through a rut, not scoring, not getting out. It's rare that a 47-ball 40 on a ground like the Wankhede will do much good to you or your side. Okay, now looking in the periphery of that stagnation, 134 was never going to challenge. And Mumbai made sure it doesn't. Quinton started the assault, Rohit found some form, and then his elegance and Suryakumar closed it out in style. Stick around, we'll bring you what the captains say ..

A Russell to Suryakumar Yadav, SIX, and the strategy dished out means it needs only one ball to finish things up. Mumbai top the table, Kolkata get wrapped up. Russell takes all his anger out in this delivery, banging it in short, down leg and Suryakumar hooks it away fine, very fine, very long. Mumbai seem calm, but trust Hyderbad to errupt.

Andre Russell [2.0-0-28-0] is back into the attack

Okay, a very, very useful time-out. 6 runs | 24 balls

Prasidh to Suryakumar Yadav, 1 run, goes shorter. A neater ramp, guiding it down to third man

Prasidh to Rohit, 1 run, quite full. A stuck out ramp outside off to slice it through sweeper

Prasidh to Rohit, FOUR, woah. Rohit > elegance. It's too full anyways and Sharma lays in with a stride getting to it in drilling a lofted drill straight into long-on

Prasidh to Rohit, no run, 141.6kph, gets it to pitch finally. Neatly wide outside off as well, spitting over the attempted slap

Prasidh to Rohit, no run, another wide full toss. Rohit can't slice it right, mistiming it to point

Prasidh to Suryakumar Yadav, 1 run, 140.2kph, wide low full toss. Suryakumar sinks, sticking out an opened up bat face to steer it away to third man