BENGALURU: Forty overs. 425 runs. 27 maximums. 29 fours. 11 wickets. Statistically, it was a crazy Monday at the M Chinnaswamy stadium. Beyond the numbers, the night again brought to the fore that the only predictable factor of T20 cricket is its unpredictability.
Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Harshal Patel and Dinesh Karthik would both agree that the margin of error in this format is thinner than the shadow of a hair. Lucknow Super Giants needed five runs off the last over in a match which oscillated like a pendulum in the death overs.