It was a Day/Night Twenty20 match that would decide the winner of the 2023 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), an annual Twenty20 tournament in India.

After winning the toss, Chennai Super Kings elected to field, with Gujarat Titans scoring 214 runs for 4 wickets, setting the record for the highest team total in an IPL final.

Source: Firstpost[10] India Today[11] Gujarat Titans started their season with a 5 wicket win over Chennai Super Kings at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

[15] Chennai Super Kings started their season with a loss of 5 wickets against Gujarat Titans at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

They ended the group stage with 8 wins and 5 losses excluding a washed out match against the Lucknow Super Giants[19] thus, securing second position on the points table.

Shubman Gill scored 42 runs in 38 balls while Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana and Matheesha Pathirana took 2 wickets each for Chennai.

[24] Mumbai Indians won against Lucknow Super Giants in the Eliminator to set up a match against Gujarat to decide the second finalist.

Sri Lankan fast bowler Matheesha Pathirana took 2 wickets while conceding 44 runs for the Super Kings.

Thus, Super Kings won their 5th title and Conway was named as the player of the match[27][28] Having been asked to bat, the Titans got off to a healthy start with openers Wriddhiman Saha and Shubman Gill helping the team get to 50 runs in 5.2 overs and went on to score 62 runs for the loss of no wickets at the end of the first power play at 6 overs.

Sri Lankan fast bowler Matheesha Pathirana took 2 wickets while conceding 11 runs for the Super Kings.

[27][29] The Super Kings innings was delayed by rain with the game being reduced to 15 overs and a revised target of 171 runs to win the finals and the championship.

Captain MS Dhoni came-in to bat when the team was down four wickets with Ambati Rayudu[a] dismissed caught and bowled off Sharma.

Jadeja hoisted the penultimate delivery for a six over long off before finishing the innings by scoring a boundary behind the leg stump.