As the Arms Park fell silent on a cold Saturday night in January — other than a rogue tenor in the North Terrace belting out a lengthy note to break the tension — all eyes were on Jarrod Evans.
The Cardiff fly-half had the opportunity to end more than a decade of waiting and consign Leinster to a first defeat in the Welsh capital since 2011. Yet the pressure hardly seemed to bother the playmaker.
He stepped up, slotted the kick through the uprights and wheeled away in celebration to cap a fine individual performance. During a period when it felt like English fly-half Marcus Smith was working with a team of scriptwriters to map out his heroics from week to week, this appeared to be those same writers doing a spot of freelance work for Evans that night.
