It's finally over. We leave you with a teaser from our report. See you tomorrow.
"The end was chaotic with Delhi Capitals threatening to call their players back and sending an assistant coach onto the field to get a call overturned, but the serenity of yet another Jos Buttler hundred trumped all else in the final equation.
Buttler began looking unable to get bat on ball. His first 11 runs took 14 balls, eight of them off edges. By the time he was done, though, the opposition captain Rishabh Pant didn’t look happy with his bowlers, the bowlers didn’t look happy with the fielders, and the fielders looked sick of the leather hunt. Buttler went from 11 off 14 to end up with 116 in 65 balls, hitting nine sixes, one of them 107m long.
Rajasthan Royals lost their sixth toss in seven matches, the joint-worst luck at the toss, but that was the last thing they lost as Buttler’s third century of the season set them up for the highest score of this IPL, 222, which they defended eventually comfortably.
It came down to 36 required off the final over, but Rovman Powell hit the first three for sixes. The third of those was a high no-ball. The batter and the dugout immediately remonstrated to get a no-ball call, but it wasn’t called on the field. Then the dugout stopped play, insisting on the third umpire’s intervention, but the ICC playing conditions allow the third umpire to come in only if it is a foot-fault no-ball or if there has been a dismissal off the ball. Obed McCoy made a comeback after the break to bowl two dots and get Powell off the last ball."