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Adam Gilchrist was erased from the Indian Premier League record books overnight and Dale Steyn was spanked for 26 from one over as Kolkata Knight Riders stormed into the coveted top two for the tournament's playoffs.

Yusuf Pathan sent a packed Eden Gardens into rapture with a 15-ball half-century on his way to a match-winning 72 from just 22 deliveries.

Steyn bore the brunt of Pathan's onslaught in the 13^th over as Kolkata charged towards victory at a pace that saw them leapfrog the Chennai Super Kings into second spot on the IPL ladder on net run rate.

Steyn was left shaking his head as Pathan took him for 4-6-6-4-4-2 in an over which saw him pass the half-century mark.

His effort eclipsed Gilchrist's 17-ball half-century with the now defunct Deccan Chargers in 2009 at Centurion's SuperSport Park when the tournament was held in South Africa. Gilchrist went on to finish with 83 from 35 balls, his knock a match-winning performance in a semi-final.

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Sunrisers Hyderabad coach Tom Moody dropped Aaron Finch for their final, must-win game and fellow Australian David Warner was bowled second ball by Morne Morkel.

Rather than playing with the freedom of knowing the odds were stacked against them, Sunrisers succumbed to the pressure of their improbable task – a massive win against Kolkata was needed to keep their playoff hopes alive.

No batsman reached 30 and three were run out as Sunrisers reached 7-160 from their 20 overs.

Kolkata needed to knock off the target in 15.2 overs to leapfrog Chennai on net run rate and claim second spot on the IPL ladder, thereby guaranteeing themselves a double chance of making the June 2 final.

They did it with six balls to spare.

Kolkata opener Robin Uthappa scored 41 from 30 balls, extending his lead over Glenn Maxwell as the tournament's leading run-scorer. Uthappa now has 613 runs, 80 ahead of Maxwell, who plays tonight against Kevin Pietersen's wooden spoon outfit Delhi Daredevils.

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With Sunrisers eliminated from the tournament, Warner will return to Australia, where his next engagement will be the men's team's two-week fitness camp at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane in early June.

Finch has already left India and is en route to England, where he will turn out for Yorkshire in the ECB's T20 Blast domestic competition before turning his attention to four-day county cricket.

For Kolkata, and their Australian contingent of Pat Cummins and Chris Lynn, they return to Eden Gardens on Tuesday where they face George Bailey's Kings XI Punjab with a place in the IPL final up for grabs.

Despite finishing second, a quirk of the scheduling for the IPL playoffs, where venues were determined long before the participants was known, effectively hands the Knight Riders a home final against top-placed Kings XI.

Knight Riders have now won seven matches in a row. The loser of the first qualifying final will get a second chance to make the grand final.

Kolkata Knight Riders

Squad: Gautam Gambhir (c), Sunil Narine, Jacques Kallis, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hasan, Morne Morkel, Vinay Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Manish Pandey, Chris Lynn, Pat Cummins, Ryan ten Doeschate, Suryakumar Yadav, Andre Russell, Manvinder Bisla, Veer Pratap Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Debabata Das, Sayan Mondal.

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Squad: Shikhar Dhawan, Dale Steyn, David Warner, Amit Mishra, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Aaron Finch, Karn Sharma, Darren Sammy, Ishant Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Moises Henriques, Lokesh Rahul, Parveez Rasool, Jason Holder, Venugopal Rao, Naman Ojha, Brendan Taylor, Prasanth Parameswaran, Amit Paunikar, Ashis Reddy, Srikkanth Anirudha, Ricky Bhui, Chama Milind, Manpreet Juneja.