Gujarat Titans beat CSK to seal top-two finish, knock them out

CSK won toss and bowled. GT went all-in on a red-soil pitch with pace and bounce. Shubman Gill 64 off 37: 23-ball fifty, 7 fours, 3 sixes. Joined Warner & KL Rahul as only captains with 600+ runs in back-to-back IPL seasons.Sai Sudharsan 84 off 53: 7 fours, 4 sixes. Fifth consecutive fifty. Jos Buttler 57 off 27*: 5 fours, 4 sixes. In reply, CSK's top five perished inside seven overs before Shivam Dube tonked 47 off 17 to briefly inject life into the chase. His dismissal left the door ajar for GT to knock over the lower order, which they did courtesy Rashid Khan to bowl CSK out in the 14th over. Sanju Samson 0: Caught behind first ball off Siraj. Ruturaj Gaikwad 16: Bowled by Siraj. Urvil Patel 0: Caught off Siraj. Matt Short 24: Caught off Rabada. Only resistance: *Shivam Dube 47 off 17, 4 fours, 4 sixes. Caught by diving Gill off Rashid. CSK all out 140 in 13.4 overs. In the game's second over, Sanju Samson left the field to nurse a finger injury after Spencer Johnson's hard-length delivery down the leg side suddenly swerved away after passing the batter. He left the field immediately, and didn't return for the rest of the innings with Kartik Sharma taking over wicketkeeping duties. The nature of his on-field injury meant Samson could return to bat in his original position, but he lasted all of one ball, nicking a Mohammed Siraj awayswinger in the very first over. GT: Seal top-two with 18 points, get two shots at final via Qualifier 1. RCB, SRH, GT confirmed in top four.CSK: Eliminated. Failed to make playoffs for third straight season. Finished bottom half despite 5 titles. Bottom line: Clinical GT batting set up 230, then Siraj-Rabada-Rashid dismantled CSK top order. Win ends CSK’s slim hopes and locks GT into Qualifier 1. Buttler too got to his half-century off 23 balls when he scythed two attempted wide yorkers from Anshul Kamboj to the cover boundary. Kamboj went for 56 off his four overs, along the way conceding the most sixes in a single IPL season. It left CSK needing a mammoth 230, which they never looked like challenging on the night.