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Despite producing a gaffe-ridden performance, Rajasthan Royals managed to beat Kolkata Knight Riders by nine runs and booked their spot in the playoffs

The equation is simple for Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians: The winner moves on to the playoffs, the loser pulls curtains on their season.

The fate of the Champions League Twenty20 will be decided in a meeting that will take place on the sidelines of the IPL final in Kolkata on May 24

Kings XI Punjab's final match followed the narrative of much of their season, as their underwhelming 130 for 7 in Mohali was reeled in with seven wickets and 20 balls to spare by Chennai Super Kings

JP Duminy has said that Delhi Daredevils need to find the "culture of winning" after another underwhelming season where they will end up one better than their wooden-spoon finish in the previous two editions of the IPL

Virat Kohli has said that Royal Challengers Bangalore's away win over Sunrisers Hyderabad has given them their "two most important points" in the last three years

Four-hundred-and-fifty-five runs, the most ever for a T20 match in England and fourth highest in all T20 cricket, were plundered in just over three hours of ferocious cricket

Debutant Matthew Fisher fired Yorkshire to an opening-night NatWest T20 Blast win over Derbyshire at Headingley with a stunning five-wicket haul under the new floodlights

Steven Croft helped Lancashire get their NatWest T20 Blast campaign off to a successful start with an unbeaten 70 as they claimed a last-ball five-wicket Duckworth-Lewis win over Leicestershire

Kent pace duo Mitch Claydon and David Griffiths held their nerve at the death to clinch Kent's edgy seven-run win over Sussex Sharks in the NatWest T20 Blast South Group and bring their first win of the season

Jimmy Adams celebrated the birth of his new born son by scoring his fastest ever T20 fifty as Hampshire started their bid for a sixth successive Finals Day with a 17-run win against Essex

Are you watching Mumbai Indians? Alex Hales is heading your way for the final stages of IPL, his confidence soaring after six successive sixes on the opening night of the NatWest Blast

Calum MacLeod thrashed a 23-ball half-century to set Durham on the way to a 41-run win against Northamptonshire under the Duckworth/Lewis method in the NatWest T20 Blast match at Chester-le-Street.

Captain Ian Cockbain hit his best T20 score of 91 to guide Gloucestershire to a seven-wicket victory over Middlesex in the opening NatWest Blast game at Bristol.

Hamish Rutherford top-scored with 75 for the New Zealanders in Worcester but they were largely kept in check by the hosts

Sarel Burger's 52 and Nicolaas Scholtz's 40 helped Nambia win to a one-wicket win over Hong Kong in the first ICC World Cricket League Championship game in Windhoek

Adil Amin's unbeaten 53 and Iftikhar Ahmed's 23-ball 32 helped Peshawar Panthers to a seven-wicket win over Rawalpindi Rams at Faisalabad

Pakistan A were led by Usman Salahuddin's 86 not out, and Fawad Alam's 64 to 287 for 5 on the third day, as the second draw of the series loomed, at Pallekele

Nottinghamshire fast bowler Luke Fletcher is joining Surrey on a month's loan for red ball cricket, but will remain available for Notts Outlaws in the NatWest T20 Blast

Zimbabwe's proposed tour of Pakistan witnessed another day of confusing signals from both sides