IPL Pulse: Control-F button and parenting 101

Good morning!

Stop the press, KKR have a win. Five attempts and some rain later, they've escaped the clutches of spot No.10. That game was a close one, but PBKS's mauling of LSG was not. Their two twenty-something lefties razed through the Lucknow attack. The chase was never really on.

Double-headers deserve a recap, and on that note, here's Cricbuzz Pulse, your two-minute scan of the IPL-verse.

1. KKR on their remote, ending a winless streak of seven games

2. Varun Chakaravarthy found his mojo again, pressing hard on RR's spin issues

3. Rinku Singh, dropped on 8, finally finished a game, hitting his first IPL fifty in three years

4. Cooper Connolly & Priyansh Arya , propelling PBKS to their second-best total ever

5. LSG opened with Badoni and held back Markram for later, but it didn't matter. 255 was never really within reach

Unless you're living under a rock, the image of a horizontal Dhruv Jurel should have found your screen in some form. Greatest stumpings contender, no less. A diving leg-side take and a flick-while-falling direct hit, all in one motion. Two decades ago, head coach Kumar Sangakkara did something similar. Jurel, like a true protege, bettered it.

Ricky Ponting wins the award for not mouthing off on live TV when Shashank Singh, for a brief while, forgot how catches work. Two drops, one bizarre non-attempt, each followed by a zoom into Ponting's aghast face. No reaction, just disappointment.

The award goes to Mukul Choudhary for another helicopter extraordinaire, using just wrists and timing to clank a six over long-on. It didn't really do much to the game, but it reminded us why we want to see .

The award goes to the man himself for hammering a six off Jofra Archer when it mattered the most. Watch a close-up, and his eyes are shut when he swings it. Which makes it .

Shreyas Iyer gets the award for offering his bat for a six-hitting contest. He's asked Connolly and Priyansh to internally compete for the most sixes this season. Whoever wins gets Iyer's bat. Takes you back to parenting 101: make the siblings compete.

Rajasthan Royals are following a script, and not in a good way. A season that drove off with four wins has run into a slight jam. The loss to KKR exposed a : their middle order versus spin. The middle four tend to start off slow, almost opposite to how their Powerplay usually goes. They're fine for now, but if there's no immediate fix, it could put their top-four spot in danger.

Ayush Mhatre's hamstring tear is set to rule him out for at least a few games. Separately, Dhoni's IPL comeback . The will-he, wont-he must be eating up CSK fans, but it's also on-brand from the great man to keep us all in the dark with his plans.

Rohit Sharma remains a doubtful starter, although he did have a batting session at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday evening.

Rishabh Pant's left hand is better, but he got a "new tattoo" on the right one last night. Hopefully, this one doesn't sting and bruise as much (...as the losses).

Apparently, Priyansh Arya "doesn't practice six-hitting that much". All timing, he says. And he says it after reeling off nine sixes. India's new batting bunch is just ridiculously talented.

This section is called chatter, but captain Iyer doesn't believe in it. He says he doesn't speak much to his unit ahead of a game, lets Ponting motivate them right before, and the boys just deliver. Simplified mantra, like true table-toppers.

Chakaravarthy reveals he has "" but is slowly managing it. His bones might be broken, but his form is now fixed. Time heals everything.

A day after Heinrich Klaasen said so, Ajinkya Rahane ** declares that strike-rate is overrated. Let's continue the chain, and see who feels the same today.

Only one stand in IPL history has had more runs at a higher rate than Cooper-Priyansh: 229 (96) at 14.31 RPO, between AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli vs Gujarat Lions in 2016. That's some elite company.

A certain Englishman is yet to join Mumbai Indians, despite repeated use of the word "soon", and it's making fans ask questions. Tenth on the table with with just one win so far, MI would hope Jacks show up soon. Else, there's an IPL next year too.

The . GT are on the rise with three wins; MI are underwater with four losses. To make it worse, GT have a 4-0 record over them in Ahmedabad. Favorites, much?

Will Jacks shows up in his airport look in Motera, cracks his sixth T20 ton and takes five (never forget, he was England's lead Ashes spinner).