BD NarayankarBengaluru, April 4 -- If cricket were merely a game of bat and ball, one would not bother writing about it with such drama. But then, Royal Challengers Bengaluru versus Chennai Super Kings has never been just cricket. It is theatre, and occasionally, heartbreak served with a side of statistics.
The latest episode of this long-running saga arrives at Chinnaswamy Stadium, a place where boundaries are short, tempers are shorter, and bowlers often look like men who have taken a wrong turn in life. Bengaluru walk in with a certain swagger, the kind that comes from winning their recent encounters against Chennai not once, not twice, but three times in succession.
In cricketing parlance, this is called momentum; in human terms, it i...