India, May 4 -- Royal Challengers Bengaluru mentor Dinesh Karthik lauded Yash Dayal's work ethic off the field after he once again held his nerves against Chennai Super Kings in the final over to take his team over the line. Dayal has turned out to be the last-over specialist for RCB, and he has done the big job of stopping MS Dhoni at Chinnaswamy in the final over in back-to-back seasons now. The left-arm pacer had a tricky job to defend 15 runs off the last over on Saturday night with Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja in the middle.

He bowled in the blackhole to give away just two singles on the first two balls, while on the third, he trapped Dhoni in front of the wickets with another full-length delivery. It was a deja vu moment for several R...