Rajasthan Royals have to beat Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday to sail into the last four.
CSK coach Fleming sees his side's final IPL league match against bottom placed Kings XI Punjab as a "hard game".
Virat Kohli played a captain's knock as his superb little innings enabled Royal Challengers Bangalore to eke out a thrilling six wicket victory over SunRisers Hyderabad.
Gambhir maintained that KKR's entire focus will be on Saturday's make or break game against RR.
On RR's dip in form after a great start, Rahane said it was due to the nature of T20 cricket.
A win for KXIP against CSK will still not help change their position in the points table, though they will like to create an upset.
McClenaghan picked up a wicket in MI's 5-run win over KKR and kept their play-off hopes alive.
Chawla played out a few dot balls and KKR were stopped at 166/7 to lose by five runs.
Put into bat, MI rode on Pandya's 31-ball knock, laced with 8 fours and 2 sixes, to post 171 for four in 20 overs.
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For Bangalore, it's almost like a knockout game. Defeat would belie their star-studded talent.
If teams are locked on the same number of points, the number of wins take precedence over the net run-rate.
KKR skipper Gautam Gambhir said his bowlers needed to be clever while bowling at the death overs.
MI, with the crucial win, take their points tally to 14 with one last away game against SRH left.
Sunrisers have 14 points from 12 matches and RCB have 13 points from 11 matches.
MI kept their cool to register a thrilling five-run win over KKR in the IPL 8 contest in Mumbai on Thursday.
Royals are currently placed 4th on the IPL table with 14 points and a game still left against KKR.
Pietersen suffered the injuries while playing county cricket for Surrey against Leicestershire.
The accused brothers, identified as Ritesh Bansal and Ankush Bansal, in their early thirties, are residents of Delhi.
MI coach Ricky Ponting on Wednesday termed the clash as a "virtual final" for his team.