Ajinkya Rahane feels there is still a lot to play for, reminding everyone that the door to the Playoffs hasn’t shut on the Kolkata Knight Riders yet. “I think on 15 points we can still qualify,” the KKR skipper said after Wednesday’s two-wicket defeat to the Chennai Super Kings, alluding to the unlikely possibility of results of other matches aligning in KKR’s favour. “We have to be positive; think about how we can win the next two games,” he spelt out the job at hand as KKR go on the road to Hyderabad and then Bangalore.

Vaibhav Arora’s 30-run over 

He pointed to the 11th over, which yielded 30 runs, with Dewald Brevis, the 22-year-old all-rounder from South Africa, hammering Vaibhav Arora for three sixes and three fours. “That one over, one big over was the difference,” he said, but defended his pacers, giving credit instead to the CSK batters. “They batted really smartly; didn’t take chances against Sunny [Sunil Narine] and Varun [Chakravarthy],” he pointed out.