Virat Kohli followed up two successive first-ball ducks with a scratchy, chancy 9 off 10 balls; Glenn Maxwell fell to a first-baller; and Dinesh Karthik was run out in tragicomic manner. There was no let-up at any point from Royals’ bowlers. All of them performed their roles perfectly on a two-paced pitch that also took turn as the match progressed, and the two big wicket-hauls in the end went to the pacy Kuldeep Sen, and the evergreen R Ashwin, who followed up a pinch-hitting cameo at No. 3 with a three-wicket haul that took him past 150 wickets in the IPL.
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