Chennai Super Kings had a 8-wicket victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2018 final and earned their third Indian Premier League championship. In the VIVO IPL 2018 Final held at Wankhede Stadium, Shane Watson hit 117, which was completed as the CSK chased those 179.
| Venue | Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai |
| Toss | Chennai Super Kings, elected to field first |
| Series | Indian Premier League 2019 |
| Player Of The Match | Shane Watson |
| Player Of The Series | Sunil Narine |
| Series result | Chennai Super Kings won the 2018 Indian Premier League |
| Umpires | Marais Erasmus Sundaram Ravi |
| TV Umpire | Nitin Menon |
| Reserve Umpire | Yeshwant Barde |
| Match Referee | Andy Pycroft |
IPL 2018 Final Scorecard
In the final match of IPL 2018, Chennai Super Kings won the toss and decided to bowl first. Let’s take a look at the scorecard of both the teams in this match.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad Innings
Yusuf Pathan was seen in action for his team after the captain lost his wicket in the 13th over. Offering the first shot from his bat, he clenched the ball towards a boundary by performing a late cut that found a gap even in the infield.
He continued batting smartly going forward only aiming at singles but not letting the bowlers go easy with any bad ball. Every time there was an opportunity to play with the width or when the ball was short-pitched, he seized it and fetched boundaries; he collected 4 fours and 2 sixes in his power-packed 30 ball knock.
| BATTING | Runs | Balls | Strike Rate | |
| Shreevats Goswami | run out (Sharma/Dhoni) | 5 | 5 | 100 |
| Shikhar Dhawan | b Jadeja | 26 | 25 | 104 |
| Kane Williamson (c) | st Dhoni b Sharma | 47 | 36 | 130.55 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | c Raina b Bravo | 23 | 15 | 153.33 |
| Yusuf Pathan | not out | 45 | 25 | 180 |
| Deepak Hooda | c sub (DR Shorey) b Ngidi | 3 | 4 | 75 |
| Carlos Brathwaite | c Rayudu b Thakur | 21 | 11 | 190.9 |
Total: 178/6
Lungi Ngidi, with figures of 1/26, bowled well. At the beginning of the game, in only the fourth over, he was able to bowl a Maiden over to the best batsmen in the tournament – Kane Williamson. However, after that he bowled very well in the 19th over; playing with different lengths and different speeds, he conceded only two singles off the first five balls, but a mishit by Brathwaite sailed over the rope at long-on hampered the fantastic over.
| BOWLING | Overs | Runs | Wicket | Economy |
| Deepak Chahar | 4 | 25 | 0 | 6.25 |
| Lungi Ngidi | 4 | 26 | 1 | 6.5 |
| Shardul Thakur | 3 | 31 | 1 | 10.33 |
| Karn Sharma | 3 | 25 | 1 | 8.33 |
| Dwayne Bravo | 4 | 46 | 1 | 11.5 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 2 | 24 | 1 | 12 |
Chennai Super Kings Innings
The innings of the match is being played by Shane Watson. The CSK opener managed to hit the first boundary of the innings only after playing his tenth ball. However, after his swing was gone, the 36-year old started to behave differently in the field. He then made a series of gear changes, slowly but steadily caught up to the 19-ball run, reached his 50 runs off 33 balls before making an ultimate breakthrough and went on to his century 18 balls later.
| BATTING | Runs | Balls | Strike Rate | |
| Shane Watson | not out | 117 | 57 | 205.26 |
| Faf du Plessis | c & b Sandeep Sharma | 10 | 11 | 90.9 |
| Suresh Raina | c Goswami b Brathwaite | 32 | 24 | 133.33 |
| Ambati Rayudu | not out | 16 | 19 | 84.21 |
Total: 181/2
Bhuvneshwar Kumar strung three terrific overs at the beginning of the CSK game. To start with, he bowled a beautiful outswinger off the first ball to edge the batsman closer to the stumps and followed it up with all six dot balls to walk away with a maiden over bowled. The pacer maintained the pressure in his next over as well; the only runs he gave apart from the 5 runs conceded through overthrows which resulted due to an unnecessary shy at the stumps by Deepak Hooda.
| BOWLING | Overs | Runs | Wicket | Economy |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 4 | 17 | 0 | 4.25 |
| Sandeep Sharma | 4 | 52 | 1 | 13 |
| Siddarth Kaul | 3 | 43 | 0 | 14.33 |
| Rashid Khan | 4 | 24 | 0 | 6 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | 1 | 15 | 0 | 15 |
| Carlos Brathwaite | 2.3 | 27 | 1 | 10.8 |
IPL 2018 Final match playing XI
Chennai Super Kings won their third IPL title by winning this match. Sunrisers Hyderabad also performed well throughout the season. Let’s take a look at those players who played for these two teams.
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Chennai Super Kings
Shane Watson, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (c & wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Karn Sharma, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Lungi Ngidi
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Shikhar Dhawan, Kane Williamson (c), Shreevats Goswami (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Deepak Hooda, Carlos Brathwaite, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan, Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma
FAQs
1. Who scored the highest runs in the IPL 2018 Final match?
Shane Watson scored the highest runs (117 runs) in the IPL 2018 Final match
2. Who took the most wickets in the IPL 2018 Final match?
Lungi Ngidi, Shardul Thakur, Karn Sharma, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Sandeep Sharma and Carlos Brathwaite took 1-1 wickets in IPL 2018 Final match.
3. Who won the IPL Final in 2018?
Chennai Super Kings won the 2018 Indian Premier League
4. Who was the player of the match in the IPL 2018 Final?
Shane Watson was the player of the match in the IPL 2018 Final.
5. Who won the player of the series in IPL 2018?
Sunil Narine won the player of the series in IPL 2018.
