Jos Buttler came into his own at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday to help Rajasthan Royals post a stiff target of 189 for Gujarat Titans in Qualifier-1 of IPL-15. But it didn’t prove enough as skipper Hardik Pandya and David Miller dragged the Titans over the line with seven wickets and three deliveries to spare.

Miller and Pandya put together an unbeaten partnership of 106 runs in 61 balls to ensure a berth in Sunday’s final. The Royals will have to take on the winners of Wednesday’s Eliminator for another shot at glory. The South African scored an unbeaten 38-ball 68 with three boundaries and five sixes, three of them coming first three balls of the final over that had demanded 16 runs from them. Pandya finished with 40 off 27. It had five boundaries.