1. The “shawman” seals it: This was the Prithvi Shaw, er show. Shaw reminded us of his ability to win games single-handedly. The score at the end of 12 overs – 113/0. Shikhar Dhawan – 40 off 44, Shaw – 79 off 34, required 32 off 42. Game over. Shaw went on to score 82 off 41 and deservedly won the fantasy player, super striker and man of the match awards

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2. The Bump: After he was hit for a boundary off his first ball, Shivam Mavi “bumped” Prithvi Shaw. The bump seemed to wake up Shaw, who bashed him for 6 consecutive boundaries that over. He then went on to hammer the rest of the KKR bowlers as well, getting to the fastest half-century this IPL (off 19 balls) and allowing Shikhar Dhawan to play gentle test cricket at the other end.

3. KKR’s MIA top order: The opening batsmen and upper-middle order did not fire for KKR. At the fall of Dinesh Karthik’s wicket, they were 109/6 in 16.2 overs. This left too much to do for Dre and the other batsmen and prevented them from getting to an above-par score.

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4. Dre’s deep fireworks: Andre “Danger man” Russell hit 45 runs off 17 balls at the end of KKR’s innings to get them to a respectable score of 154. Without his power hitting, KKR seemed to be headed to a way-under-par score in the range of 135

5. Cummins comes on too late: Pat Cummins running around on the boundary instead of bowling in the first 5 overs was a mystery to everyone. By the time the best bowler in the world came on to bowl in the sixth over, DC were already 66/0.