It isn't about how you start. It's about how you finish that matters. After losing a heart-stopper to DC in Vizag, LSG went onto win 5 of their next 7 games and looked firm favourites to seal a spot in the playoffs. And when they needed a bit of mid-season-steadiness, they ran out of gas and ended up losing their last 4 games. SRH aren't complaining though. They were outplayed in Hyderabad earlier this season, but have done well to return the favour to LSG. Just one playoff spot remains now. All eyes will be on Wednesday as MI take on DC at the Wankhede. Going to be a blockbuster knock-out clash that. Well, before that we got CSK taking on RR in Delhi tomorrow. Do remember to join us for all the fun. Until next time, goodbye from the trio of Raju Peethala, Akshay Maanay and Abhinav Guha. Special shout out to our scoring expert Praveen as well. Cheers!!

Abhishek Sharma | Player of the Match: I spoke to him after the game and it is all good now. If we batted first, I might have had other plans but chasing such a total we had a clear plan. If you ask any player who has been doing well for the team, chasing 200 plus something you should be able to win the powerplay. I wanted to express myself and if I do well, I know the team is gonna do well as well. It was the same plan I had in international cricket as well. Just express myself and knock it around.

Pat Cummins | SRH skipper: We conceded a few more than we would have liked, it is a good wicket but we were confident about the chase. Eshan Malinga has been great and huge asset for us as a team. His execution has been really good. At times, when they are at their best, it doesn't look like they are taking too many risks. We know we are a good side when we play our best. Few lessons to learn.

Stats by Deepu Narayanan
First instance of 200+ target successfully chased down in four attempts in IPL games in Lucknow

Fourth time SRH has successfully chased down 200+ target in IPL, joint third most with RR behind Punjab Kings (7) and Mumbai Indians (5)

Second instance of 200+ target successfully chased down against LSG after Delhi Capitals in Vizag earlier in the season

Daniel Vettori | SRH head coach: Particularly after the extended break, to see the team get back and pull off what was quite a difficult chase was great. (On Abhishek Sharma’s batting) We are used to it, he is incredible, the big challenge for teams is when he gets through the initial overs and then takes the spinners on. Usually he is successful there, his strike rate is incredible. Certain people step up at certain times, it has been unfortunate for us this season. Kamindu and Eshan Malinga were brilliant tonight, they complemented what Abhishek and Klaasen pulled off. Some pitches allow you to take the aggressive role, we also understand that teams are going to come hard at us, every team does it in a different way. We wanted Abhishek and Head to go out and play aggressive and the rest to play according to the game situation. Sometimes wickets allow you to play in that way. It’s probably understanding the conditions, a lot of planning went into on how to bowl to those two, I don’t want a style change but we I want them to adapt better. (On whether we will see Travis Head in the last two games) Head is in quarantine.

Rishabh Pant: Definitely it could have been one of our best seasons but coming into the tournament we had a lot of gaps, injuries and as a team we decided to not talk about that, but it became difficult to fill those gaps for us. The way we planned the auction, if we would have had the same bowling.. but this is cricket, sometimes things go your way and sometimes they don't, we take pride in the way we played and take the positives from the season than the negative side. We have a strong batting line up, have enough firepower and that is the biggest positive for the season, even for bowlers.. a lot of times they bowled in good areas but they were patchy. We knew we were 10 runs short because the wicket was playing well, like I said before, we are playing well in patches and unable to close the momentum whenever it turned up on our side. The first half of the season we played really well but the second half it became tougher and tougher to catch up with the teams on the brighter side. The bowler Rathi has come up nicely for us, his first season, the way he bowled, he is one of the positives, but you need to keep improving yourself and get better and better as the seasons go.

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William ORourke to Nitish Reddy, 1 run, to point

William ORourke to Nitish Reddy, FOUR, to third man

William ORourke [2.0-0-26-1] is back into the attack

Thakur to Aniket Verma, FOUR, short and well wide of off, Aniket Verma slashes and gets it wide of the diving fielder at third man

Uh-oh! Kamindu Mendis is walking off

Thakur to Kamindu Mendis, 1 run, jams the yorker to cover and hurries through for a quick single. The fielder aims and misses

Thakur to Aniket Verma, 1 run, to third man

Aniket Verma, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Thakur to Klaasen, out Caught by Pant!! Klaasen c Pant b Thakur 47(28) [4s-4 6s-1]

Thakur to Klaasen, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Pant reviews for caught behind. The umpires get together and send it upstairs. Okay! It's not a review from LSG. It is an umpire's review for bump ball in fact.

Thakur to Klaasen, FOUR, to deep mid-wicket

Thakur to Klaasen, FOUR, to deep square leg, the partnership between Klaasen and Kamindu Mendis is now