Rajkumar Lingav: "Hats off to CSK management for backing Kartik Sharma with an extended run. Earlier, he often threw away his wicket after a couple of sixes, but this innings showed real maturity and composure. It's a big step forward, well played, Kartik!"

ranjana: "You missed the 100 run partnership bro" I did indeed, 114 off 66 balls to win the chase for CSK. Another chase done and dusted too easily in the end this season.

Axar Patel reckons DC were 10-15 runs short, and that the wicket got a little better to bat on later in the game, especially for the batters who were set. He says it wasn't easy for new batters to get set, but with set batters they were able to take the game away.

I'm still surprised that he chose to bat first today.

VS: "It is always advisable to bowl first. For the chasing team they know the score and can pace their innings accordingly "

Mukund: "Rutu losing the toss is good after all."

I'll have the presentation for you shortly, with Samson waiting to collect his POTM award.

Edwin: "Karthik Sharma was on 17 runs off 21 balls. He ended up scoring 24 runs off last 10 balls helped the NRR boost for CSK"

Ramesh: "Chennai did not even use their impact player."

Ruturaj Gaikwad: We were always positive, we were always closer than we were last year, we had covered all bases, Sanju coming in ... we just needed a couple of wins, after the third game we got that and it started coming together. Obviously Sanju is the backbone now ... the bowling wins you tournaments, we have Akeal, Overton ... Kamboj is also there, smart bowler, he had an off day today but he's been impressive. (Kartik Sharma) His skillset was already there, he just needed a couple of games to start with, he didnt get the time in previous games, now he got the time, he's not a wild slogger, he can rotate strike and hit the pockets, good to get his confidence going.

Sanju Samson: They are calling me Chetta but I like Sanju more ... (laughs) I have been working a bit on my initial movement and it has been coming off. I've been doing it for the last few years and it's tactical as well depending on the bowlers and how you want to approach them ... to be very honest I am always like this (calm) but you are seeing me more in the middle now so you feel I am calm, even outside I am calm. Looking at what we were chasing, how the wicket was behaving, even if we were 35 for no loss in the powerplay, we could capitalise in the middle overs. I had to be a bit too selfish to get a hundred so I thought lets win the game ... finishing not out, winning the game gives you more satisfaction.

Srini: "CricInfo's Top 5 MVP for the day are either CSK or Ex-CSK players (Sanju, Hosein, Rizvi, Noor and Ngidi). YellowForLife uh? "

Thank you for following the game with us and for all your emails. We'll be back tomorrow for SRH vs PBKS. Big game that. Good night.

Ek P: "With half the teams having played 10 matches, when do we start seeing permutations and combinations articles for the playoff scenarios?" It's still fairly open, so perhaps in a week or so.