India, April 8 -- It's staggering that in a match which witnessed 70 boundary hits, Lucknow Super Giants scraped through by just one boundary. Even more startling was how Mitchell Marsh's strike rate of 168.75 ended almost as a footnote to Nicholas Pooran's 36-ball 87 (SR 241.66).

To concede 16 wides in a T20 is criminal but LSG lived to tell the tale after Kolkata Knight Riders scuppered a scintillating buildup with some disjointed batting in the final overs. No bowler was spared on a day 472 runs were scored but for Varun Chakravarthy and Digvesh Rathi who bowled the chase-altering 18th over where KKR could only score seven. At a time when they needed at least two boundary hits per over, that break proved to be decisive.

Chasing 238 m...