IPL 2019- Week 01- Top Ten talking points

#3 A match for the ages [RCB vs MI]; a dreadful miss

RCB vs MI

The IPL has had its fair share of controversies but what it really needed leading into the RCB vs MI game was a nail-biting encounter. It got its wish fulfilled albeit with controversies as a cashback.

Virat Kohli

First the fun part. Imagine a packed Chinnaswamy. Flat Pitch. Rohit doing Rohit things; Yuvraj winding the clock back with three successive sixes; Chahal tossing the ball up and reaping the reward; Hardik Pandya's cameo to revive Mumbai at the death; Kohli cover-driving his way to 20 [9] including three boundaries off Jasprit Bumrah; Bumrah getting one back over Kohli before tying up AB to concede 8 off the last three overs; a youngster clobbering Lasith Malinga over long-on in the last over before nailing five yorkers to win the game for his side.

L Malinga

This was peak IPL until the replay of the last ball aired on the big screen to act as the perfect anticlimactic moment. Malinga had clearly over-stepped the line and the umpire had missed it, which again brought into the spotlight, the sheer amount of no-balls that the umpires' are missing these days, and whether the time has come for cricket to use line-ball technology to eliminate the howlers.