Three bowlers. One powerplay. The seam, the speed, the swing - each doing a different job, each doing it well. (BCCI/Creimas Photo)

Three bowlers. One powerplay. The seam, the speed, the swing – each doing a different job, each doing it well. LSG may not be winning. The same can’t be said about the pace pack.

Mohammed Shami took the new ball in RCB’s chase . The ball angled in, straightened off the deck; Bethell swung across the line. Prince Yadav held the catch at deep backward point. In the second over, seam-up again, Patidar beaten outside off.

“Jis din main bore ho jaaunga – us din main cricket chhod dunga,” (I will quit the day I am bored).

Shami had said on Shubhankar Mishra’s YouTube channel a few weeks before this game. “Records uthake dekh lijiye.…