It's all set-up for a blockbuster finale with the Washington Freedom taking on the San Fransisco Unicorns. That should be a belter and we'll be back on Sunday for all the action. For now, cheers and bye..
Corey Anderson - Different guys have chipped in at times, we've had players contributing when most needed, winning us moments in the games. Obviously, someone scoring a hundred is great, but we've been great as a team. Both of them are world-class bowlers (on Haris Rauf and Pat Cummins), they know what they want to do and I completely trust them to do it. I thought they kept going (TSK batters), but we kept hanging in and we had runs on the board. He was incredible tonight, won us the moments in the middle (on Drysdale), was a bit under done coming into the tournament, but has got better with games. It was moments like that which will help us going further (on his one-handed catch), Faf has been playing well right through the tournament, so that catch helped us to stall some of the momentum away from them.
Faf du Plessis - I think we weren't at our best at the start. First 45 minutes, Finn Allen played well, but we were soft, both teams fielding was bad. You can't give a player like him a chance (on dropping Finn Allen), no one other than him looked comfortable, just say that you need to take your chances and we weren't good tonight. He didn't have a great season (on Joshua Tromp), but we backed him as a domestic talent, hopefully, this innings gives him the confidence going ahead. Cricket is a game played in the mind and hopefully he'll go one ahead from here, work on his skills and do well in the next season. I thought 185 was a par score here, we started off well (with the bat), it was important to break the match in the powerplay, but we lost quick wickets in the middle-overs, we did show a lot of fight in the back-end, but left too much in the end. The surfaces this season were better, there was a better balance between bat and ball, it was nice to see people flocking and supporting us in yellow shirts, no one likes playing in front of empty stands.
Finn Allen, Most Valuable Player - It was a close one, we knew we're up against the Texas batting line-up, nice to be in the final on Sunday. It was a quality knock from Devon (Conway), he keeps racking up runs in tournament after tournament and it wasn't a surprise to see him score today. I felt you'd get rewarded for good shots, batting across the line was difficult, so I wanted to spend some time and then play my shots, wanted to stick around and play straight. It's going to be a great game (in the finals), 1-1 going into the final, we will freshen up tomorrow ahead of the game.
Juanoy Drysdale: Feels great. Got the opportunity and got to make use of it. I got a text from everyone in my family in New York. Stick to basics, hit back of length on off stump. I enjoyed the Stoinis wicket. (On dropped catches) It was hard to see in the dark and the ball was wobbling a bit.
23:06 Local Time, 04:06 GMT, 09:36 IST: Freedom and Unicorns have been the best two teams of the tournament and it's only apt that they';ll face-off in Sunday's final. 201 was always a tough ask, Faf du Plessis gave his Super Kings some hope with a blistering 45, but they then slipped from 55 for 0 to 90 for 4 and put themselves in a hole - Drysdale took two in the middle-overs and put a spoke in the TSK wheel. Joshua Tromp though came good when it really mattered, Devon Conway continued to find the boundaries and they dragged their team right back into the contest. 64 to get off the last 5 overs with 6 wickets in hand meant it was anyone's game. The next three overs brought the equation down to 29 off two overs, but then Haris Rauf and Pat Cummins showed their class and experience, the two celebrated bowlers conceded just 18 and ensured that the Unicorns kept their tournament aspirations alive.
19.6
Cummins to Joshua Tromp, 1 run, it'll be Freedom v Unicorns once again, the 3rd time the two teams will meet and this time it'll be for the big prize
19.5
Cummins to Joshua Tromp, no run, Cummins has sent the Unicorns into the final, spears in the wide yorker - Tromp had backed away and can't reach out
19.4
Cummins to Conway, 1 run, to mid-off
19.3
Cummins to Conway, 2 runs, full and wide of off, Conway opens the face of the bat and carves it square behind point, comes back for the second run - TSK now need 13 off 3 balls
19.2
Cummins to Joshua Tromp, 1 run, slower ball outside off - Tromp shuffles a long way across and muscles the pull to long leg, 15 needed off 4 balls now
19.1
Cummins to Conway, 1 run, to long-off
19.1
Cummins to Conway, wide
Pat Cummins has 18 to defend, TSK have two well-set batters to try and chase it down
18.6
Haris Rauf to Joshua Tromp, FOUR, square of the wicket