And that brings us to the conclusion of the league stage of IPL 2019, with Mumbai Indians pulling off a commanding nine-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders to finish on top of the points table, also resulting in Kolkata's exit from the tournament. 

Time to shift our focus on the Women's T20 Challenge, the first game of which takes place with the Supernovas taking on the Trailblazers in an evening fixture at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Monday. The WT20 event will run simultaneously alongside the playoffs, which will begin with Mumbai taking on Chennai Super Kings at the latter's home turf on Tuesday. Delhi Capitals will then take on Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Eliminator on the following day. 

For now, it's time for us at Firstpost to bid you all good night! Hope we were able to keep you informed on the events of Match 56 as and when they happened. 

End of the game and season for KKR. And they are completely being outplayed tonight. Actually, this game is a classic example of KKR's over-dependency on Andre Russell. He failed miserably with both bat and ball in this crunch fixture and the "Men in Purple" were just unable to put up any sort of resistance. I hope in the coming season, the think-tank will address this issue and come back as a much more flexible unit.

Hardik Pandya (3-0-20-2) is the Man of the Match! 

HP: Getting a Man of the Match with your bowling performance. I'm quite happy. As a batsman, when you hit the ball, nothing is better than that. But when you get something that people don't expect much from, that makes me happy. (On his big-hitting ability) I have no clue. Krunal was telling me Im generating power from my hip and core. Eventually became a habit, and now I'm clearing them. (On playoffs) I was focusing on the Chennai game because it will be a cracker of a game. On the day, if the team requires me of the situation, I can bowl four overs, 10 overs. Whatever the team needs. 

Rohit Sharma, winning captain: Team effort pleased me the most. I said earlier we don't count on individuals to win and today the entire bowling department did well to restrict KKR to a small total. At the start, I thought 170 would be great but bowlers did well to get those breakthroughs. It is something we know about the IPL that the business end matters, we always come back well in the second half of this tournament. In all the three trophies that we've won, the boys have picked themselves up in the business end. IPL is a funny tournament, any team can beat the other on a day and we want to take few tiny steps. 

SRH have now qualified for playoffs with 12 points — the first time a team has qualified with 12 points to IPL playoffs. 

RCB is at the last place and finished the season with 11 points — the first time a team finished at the last position with 11 points

Suryakumar Yadav: (On his supporting role at one end) That's the role they've given me. I just support the other batsmen, and try annd stay as long as I can. Very happy, and obviously we'll try and continue the same thing. We just wanted to keep things simple, just wanted to bat looking at the scoreboard. Told me runs will come automatically if you stick around. Bowlers did a fantastic job over here. They were almost 50 runs in the first six overs. Complete team effort from them. (Qualifier 1 vs CSK) It is going to be a big game, but at the end of the day, just another game. They've been brilliant out here. 

Dinesh Karthik, KKR captain: We didn't find momentum after the first six overs. We set it up beautifully. Wicket didn't help either. Wicket held up a bit. Bowlers made it harder with cutters, etc. (Dre Russ) He's been outstanding for us, you expect him to deliver for us every time is unfair. We were not up to the mark this year. I think it's all about attitude at that stage. I was desperate to win, but sometimes things don't your way. (Overall, 2019 season) It's been decent. Not the best season, but lot of areas for us to improve on. 

Wooden spoons in each IPL seasons:

2008 - DC (4)

2009 - KKR (7)

2010 - KXIP (8)

2011 - DD (9)

2012 - PWI (8)

2013 - DD (6)

2014 - DD (4)

2015 - KXIP (6)

2016 - KXIP (8)

2017 - RCB (7)

2018 - DD (10)

2019 - RCB (11)

Table Toppers in each IPL season:

2008 - RR (22)

2009 - DD (20)

2010 - MI (20)

2011 - RCB (19)

2012 - DD (22)

2013 - CSK (22)

2014 - KXIP (22)

2015 - CSK (18)

2016 - GL (18)

2017 - MI (20)

2018 - SRH (18) 

2019 - MI (18)

After 16.1 overs,Mumbai Indians 134/1 ( Rohit Sharma (C) 55 , Suryakumar Yadav 46)

SIX! Suryakumar hits the winning six, as Mumbai Indians thrash Kolkata Knight Riders by nine wickets to finish on top of the IPL 2019 points table! 

Short ball from Russell, and Surya pulls this over the fine leg fence. Surya and Russell hug it out at the end of the match, as the Mumbai dugout breaks into congratulatory handshakes.