India, April 21 -- The "great escape" by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) led to tears in the changing room. After their innings began with a dismissal, KKR's first win of the season came in a match that went into the last over and saw superb stumpings from both teams. Taking them there was Varun Chakravarthy hitting a purple patch on a muggy Sunday afternoon, Anukul Roy's composure and Rinku Singh making the most of an early reprieve to notch up his first half-century since 2023.

It wouldn't surprise if the game's second-highest individual score got buried under all this. Especially because it did not come in a winning cause. But what it showed - again - was why the world of cricket cannot have enough of the adult-child named Vaibhav Sooryav...