Jerin George J

Purely from the tactical side of things, the last 30-odd minutes would be right up there among the worst phases of cricket in a T20 game. The move to hold Chahal back so much takes the cake, and that blunder was compounded by some listless bowling from the others who were simply not bowling to their fields, leaking boundaries at the rate of knots. Take no credit away from DK and co. though. Because RCB seemed done at one stage, undoing their openers' work with a mini-collapse and just when it seemed like RR were cruising to another win, DK came to the party. His assault off Ashwin turned the game upside down, and RCB never looked back thereafter. Shahbaz played the ideal foil in a game-changing partnership, with Harshal then doing the finishing bits. RR definitely had a defendable total, but were undone by some elementary mistakes and the genius of one of IPL's under-rated finishers.