1:01am And...breathe. After a game that began yesterday and stretched for more than five hours. But it was a game worth waiting for. Especially with what was at stake, and especially because how badly both teams wanted to win it. We hope you enjoyed our coverage and we will be back with more IPL action in about 17 hours from now. Until then, from Thilak, Sudeep and myself (Shashwat), this is goodbye!

Shubman Gill, the Gujarat Titans captain is also the Player of the Match: There was a little bit of chaos when we came in to bat after the rain. But always good to have a W (beside your name) after the match. The game plans were definitely different in the powerplay. There was wind and some rain, and it felt like a Test match for the first four or five overs, had to play normal cricket. After the powerplay was over, we tried to play our normal cricket a little more. (How challenging it was keeping an eye on the DLS target) On this wicket, pretty challenging. The wicket was a little bit slow. With rain coming in, shots were not easy to hit through the line. Wanted to rotate strike and go for it if the balls were in our zones. (On the emotions in the dugout during the final rain delay) Lot of emotions. Most of them were frustrating because at one point, we were so ahead. But then four overs of play, 20 runs for four wickets, it felt like one of those Test sessions that do not go your way. Universe gave us another chance, and everything worked out (in the end). A match where it goes till the last ball, every contribution becomes crucial. Sherfane, all the bowlers, the small, small things in the field - those are the moments that make a big difference. Even after a game like this, where it was so chaotic, it is wins like this that gets you through a tournament like the IPL. (On Rashid's bowling) It is not easy coming back from an injury. But the way he has been working hard in the nets and bowled today is a good sign for us. (On qualification) Thoughts like this can creep in but we want to play each game as it comes. We do not want to play for one (first), two (second) or three (third) positions, but about giving our best in every game we play.

Hardik Pandya, Mumbai Indians captain: Yes, definitely (tough way to go down). Fought well with the total we had. Times where we were out of the game, but we pushed as a group. It was a game of margins. It was definitely not a 150-wicket. It was a 175-wicket, we were short by 20-25-30 runs. Credit to the bowlers - they kept fighting, and we could not finish (the job). Catches did not really cost us, but the No balls, with my No balls and even in the last over, in T20s, it is a crime and more often than not, it bites you. Really happy with the boys for giving their 120 percent, ensuring we were in the game and not giving up. The ground, in the first innings, was not wet but post that, throughout, the ball kept getting wetter. Not sure if it helped us or not, it was difficult. Rain kept coming in, not ideal to have stoppages and start again. We had to play a game (in the end) and we definitely did.

Gerald Coetzee: (On his six in the final over) I was just in the see-ball, hit-ball (zone). I thought he (the bowler) was going to go yorkers. The bouncer (that got me out) surprised me. (On if he loves celebrating) Yes, I do. I love to play hard. (GT environment for him) Very good. The environment is really good and relaxed. It looks intense, but it is all planned and very good.

12:41am Oh goodness. What a game. You could search this season through and through, and you may still not find a better one than this. It was not a 200-plays-200 contest, but it was blockbuster. A twist here, a turn there, a dramatic moment here, and then some more theatre somewhere else. And in the end, it all came down to one over. One over of cricket after a rain delay.

Chahar bowled it, and he could not close it out, despite the Titans needing 15. Tewatia first took him for a boundary before Coetzee clubbed him over long off. There was a brief moment of resistance, when Coetzee fell to a short ball but that was soon overridden by the frustration and the sheer despair of a missed direct-hit, which could have taken the game into a Super Over.

Prior to all of that drama, Buttler and Gill had kept GT well in the chase, with Rutherford's cameo also quite useful. But around the rain intervals, the Titans lost the plot, losing wickets in a clump and putting themselves under all sorts of pressure. Bumrah and Boult, two champion cricketers, were protagonists in triggering that collapse. But as the game veered towards the conclusion, MI just could not get the job done. Which may sting, but given how many they had on the board, they will also feel they gave this contest a proper, proper rattle.

Arshad out to face the last ball. No pressure lad! Rickelton has taken a glove off. Everyone up apart from deep square and deep third

Just two needed now

4 off 3 now. Surely this is GT's game to lose from here?

10 off 4. Coetzee on strike

11 off 5, and this is very familiar territory for Tewatia now. And MI are taking their time again (of course they are)

12:29am We are back on. Chahar has the ball, and if this drama was not enough, MI have been handed an over-rate penalty too, which means they can only have four fielders outside the ring. 15 off 6, Tewatia on strike. Over the wicket - here we go, again!

12:24pm The umpires are chatting to the umpires now, with Rohit Sharma and Mohammed Siraj also in close attendance. Hardik then moves away and seems to be preparing for what looks like the completion of the game. But soon after, he walks over to a patch and complains to the fourth umpire that it is soft underfoot. That said, we have confirmation that this game is back on. 12:30am start. 147 is the target, and this is a 19-overs game, which means GT need 15 off 6 to seal this game.

12:21am The sheet that was covering the pitch is also off now. This could be happening, folks!

12:19am There seems to be a puddle on some part of the ground, but as I type that, the covers are being peeled off.

12:16am Okay. The umpires have now made their way out and are chatting to the ground staff. Saidharshan Kumar looks at his watch, and this is probably a chat around how quickly they can make the ground ready. Touch-and-go territory this. We can start a game at 12:30am, and it will then be a 19-over chase, which means GT will have one more over to get this game done, and the TV broadcast suggests that the target then could be 15 off 6 balls.

Aparajit: "Considering minimum 10 mins for ground staff to make the ground ready, isn't it over for GT?" -- With the amount of rain that has fallen, they might need a little more than ten minutes to get the ground ready and playable. This is, pretty much, a race against time, and at this point, rain is winning.

12:11am The rain seems to have eased up but it is still drizzling, which does not bode well for this game, which was simmering beautifully and heading towards a proper finale. The Titans, remember, are behind on the DLS Par Score, and if there is no further cricket, MI will win and go to the top of the table.

12:08am Arpit Gupta: "Is it still raining?" -- Yes, it is.

11:53pm The cut-off time (for when a 20-over game can restart) is 12:25am local time. But at the moment, it is raining very steadily at the venue.

24 off 12. DLS Par Score is 137. This is anyone's game from here. And the rain is getting heavier, and the players are going off too. Oh, you cannot make this up - this is drama of the highest kind, and this blockbuster will have to wait for a climax!

GT ten runs behind the DLS Par Score at this stage

MI hunting like a pack of wolves now, and GT are feeling the pinch. And to add to the drama, it has started raining again...

Coetzee, who has hardly played this season, now walks in, with GT needing 30 off 16

thunders into the back leg, and the umpire says nothing doing! Big, big call! MI go upstairs!

31 off 18. Bumrah and Boult have turned this game right on its head. But GT may have a chance now, with both of them being bowled out. Tewatia on strike, Ashwani to bowl

Rashid now

33 off 21

A bit of afters with Bumrah, it seems, with the commentators on air referring to it as well

MI had 123 on the board after 16.2 overs too...

Bumrah to bowl out. Around the wicket. 38 off 24

The pitch seems to have quickened up just a touch after the rain break

Boult and Bumrah are bending this game to their and the Mumbai Indians' will. Tewatia in at 6. He has a knack of finishing games. Can he do so again tonight?