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{{Infobox limited overs final
|title                    = 2018 Indian Premier League Final
| event                   = [[2018 Indian Premier League]]
| team1                   = [[Sunrisers Hyderabad]]
| team2                   = [[Chennai Super Kings]]
| team1score              = 178/6
| team1overs              = 20 overs
| team2score              = 181/2
| team2overs              = 18.1 overs
| details                 = Chennai Super Kings won by 8 wickets
| date                    = 27 May 2018
| stadium                 = [[Wankhede Stadium]]
| city                    = [[Mumbai]]
| man_of_the_match = [[Shane Watson]] (Chennai Super Kings)
| umpires                 = [[Marais Erasmus]] (South Africa)<br/>[[Sundaram Ravi]] (India)
| attendance              = 33,415
| television              = 
| previous                = [[2017 Indian Premier League Final|2017]]
| next = [[2019 Indian Premier League Final|2019]]
}}

The '''2018 Indian Premier League Final''' was a [[Day/night cricket|day/night]] [[Twenty20]] [[cricket]] match played between [[Sunrisers Hyderabad]] and [[Chennai Super Kings]], on 27 May 2018 at the [[Wankhede Stadium]], [[Mumbai]]. It was to determine the winner of the [[2018 Indian Premier League|2018 season]] of the [[Indian Premier League]], an annual Twenty20 tournament in India.<ref name=card>{{cite web|title=Indian Premier League, Final:,May 2018|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8048/game/1136620|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=13 April 2018}}</ref> For the first time in the history of IPL, the final was played on 19:00 [[Indian Standard Time|IST]], with all the finals of previous ten seasons played at 20:00 IST.

Chennai defeated Hyderabad by 8 wickets to win their third IPL title. [[Shane Watson]] of Chennai won the player of the match award for his innings of 117 not out off 57 balls.

==Road to the final==
{{main|2018 Indian Premier League|Chennai Super Kings in 2018|Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2018}}

===League stage===
{{2018 Road to the final}}

===League Meet-ups===
{| class="sortable wikitable"
!No.
!Teams
!Venue
!Winner
!Margin
![[Man of the match|Man of the Match]]
|-

|-
|[http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8048/game/1136580 1]
|CSK vs SRH
|[[Hyderabad]]
| style="background:yellow;" |<center><span style="color:darkblue;">'''CSK'''</span></center>
|4 runs
|[[Ambati Rayudu]] – CSK – 79 (37) 
|-
|[http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8048/game/1136606 2]
|CSK vs SRH
|[[Pune]]
| style="background:yellow;" |<center><span style="color:darkblue;">'''CSK'''</span></center>
|8 wickets
|[[Ambati Rayudu]] – CSK – 100* (62) 
|-
|[http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8048/game/1136617 3]
|CSK vs SRH
|[[Mumbai]]
| style="background:yellow;" |<center><span style="color:darkblue;">'''CSK'''</span></center>
|2 wickets
|[[Faf du Plessis]] – CSK – 67* (42)
|-

|}

==Details==
[[Shane Watson]] single-handedly won it for CSK by hitting a magnificent century in the biggest game of the season. He made 117 runs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8048/game/1136620/chennai-super-kings-vs-sunrisers-hyderabad-final-indian-premier-league-2018 |title=Shane Watson the hero as CSK claim third IPL crown |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref> He had scored a century in the earlier stage of the tournament. [[Ambati Rayudu]] hit the winning runs for CSK. SRH bowlers looked out of form, with Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rashid Khan posing as a threat for CSK as all the other bowlers leaked runs heavily. With this win, CSK lifted the IPL trophy for the 3rd time in their seventh appearance in an IPL final.

===SRH Innings===
After a slow start, opening batsman[[Shikhar Dhawan]] tried to up the ante against the strict bowling. Uncapped Bowler and Former SRH player [[Karn Sharma]] was introduced into the attack in the 7th over. Both Dhawan and  captain Williamson were keeping it slow and steady going for a boundary every over. SRH could only add 18 runs in the last 2 overs. SRH had posted a total of 178/6 which was just about par.<ref name=iplt20Fstats>{{Cite web|last=Gupta|first=Rajneesh|url=https://www.iplt20.com/news/144850/quick-stats-final-csk-vs-srh|title=Quick Stats: Final - CSK vs SRH|publisher=IPLT20|date=27 May 2018|access-date=27 May 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527213446/https://www.iplt20.com/news/144850/quick-stats-final-csk-vs-srh|archive-date=27 May 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

===CSK Innings===
[[Faf du Plessis]] and [[Shane Watson]] opened the innings for CSK while [[Bhuvneshwar Kumar]] bowled the first over for his team. The Super Kings lost du Plessis early but Watson and Raina did not give the Sunrisers any chance to bounce back with their 117-run partnership. Though Watson started slowly playing out Bhuvneshwar's overs, he pummeled the other Sunrisers bowlers to reach his second century in the IPL season. After Raina's departure, Rayudu joined hands with Watson to complete the chase for the Super Kings and helped them lift their third IPL trophy.<ref name=iplt20F>{{Cite web|last=Gopalakrishnan|first=Arun|url=https://www.iplt20.com/news/144919/report-final-csk-vs-srh|title=Report: Final - CSK vs SRH|publisher=IPLT20|date=27 May 2018|access-date=27 May 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527213117/https://www.iplt20.com/news/144919/report-final-csk-vs-srh|archive-date=27 May 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Match officials and result==
* '''On-field [[umpire (cricket)|umpires]]:''' [[Marais Erasmus]] (South Africa) & [[Sundaram Ravi]] (India)
* '''Toss:''' Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
* '''Man of the match:''' [[Shane Watson]]
* '''Result:''' Chennai Super Kings won by 8 wickets
'''Hyderabad Batting'''
{{2018 IPL-SRH-Batting}}
'''Chennai Bowling'''
{{2018 IPL-CSK-Bowling}}
'''Chennai Batting'''
{{2018 IPL-CSK-Batting}}
'''Hyderabad Bowling'''
{{2018 IPL-SRH-Bowling}}

==References==
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{{Indian Premier League}}

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