India, May 25 -- Seventy matches. Ten franchises. 58 days of theatre that produced one of the tightest league phases in the Indian Premier League's eighteen-year history. When the dust finally settled on Sunday evening, three teams - Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Gujarat Titans, and Sunrisers Hyderabad - had finished on identical totals of eighteen points. A fourth, Rajasthan Royals, scraped through on sixteen with a victory over the Mumbai Indians on the final matchday. Net Run Rate, that most unforgiving of tiebreakers, separated them into seedings. The architecture of what follows is now set: RCB against GT in Qualifier 1 at Dharamsala on May 26, SRH against RR in the Eliminator at Mullanpur on May 27, with the final scheduled for May 3...