Pollard's heroics helped Mumbai Indians hammer 89 runs off the last five overs of the chase to tie the game

"I had been trying very hard but things were not happening. Then I really asked myself lots of different questions," says Samson of his last year

Also, stirring comebacks for Chakravarthy and Cummins, and a case of too much sticking around for Sunrisers' middle order

Despite the square boundaries being the longest, Sharma struck 49 off 20 balls that were short or back of a length

Knight Riders' chase never hit top gear as Mumbai quicks bowled to plans

Dhoni felt that the start the Super Kings got wasn't good enough in a tall chase, and also said the team needed to do a better job at not bowling no-balls

Nathan Coulter-Nile might be in line to make the playing XI after missing the first game through injury

Rabada has bowled nine Super Over deliveries in the IPL. Off them, he has conceded only nine runs while taking three wickets

Overall, the Sunrisers hold only a slender 8-6 lead in head-to-head contests

Rahul, Pooran and Maxwell can take pitches out of the equation, but there are question marks over their death bowling

No other player comes to close to the impact he has on games in the league

Narine's high-impact contributions with both bat and ball make him one of the top performers in IPL history

He took 2-19 and then slammed a half-century opening the batting to quell Guyana Amazon Warriors

It might sound preposterous, but we should be rating the South African allrounder a lot higher than we do

Some cricketers shine all too briefly before circumstances curtail their international careers, leaving fans yearning for what might have been

He made a fairy-tale Test debut and then fell out of favour, but he's taking it all philosophically

Does Dale Steyn make it? Is it even possible to leave him out with the numbers he has?

Buttler or Hodge, who makes the cut if there is room for only one of them?

Can we do the unthinkable and leave Gautam Gambhir out? And who is the fourth overseas player?

Delhi have had a galaxy of overseas stars - and let them go too. Picking just four out of them is tricky