New Delhi, April 25 -- If the rise of Artificial Intelligence has humans worried about their jobs, the 2026 IPL season has established a far more immediate threat: the extinction of the specialist bowler.

On a Saturday that rewrote the record books of T20 cricket, fans witnessed 986 runs across two matches, two historic successful chases, and a frantic game of "musical chairs" for the Orange Cap that saw four different leaders in a single evening.

From KL Rahul's defiant 152* in the capital to a 15-year-old prodigy's record-shattering century in the desert, the "Super Saturday" of Saturday will be remembered as the day the bat officially broke the spirit of the ball.

At Delhi's Arun Jaitley Stadium, KL Rahul silenced years of "strike-r...