In his maiden season with Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Romario Shepherd hadn’t faced a ball in three previous outings in IPL 2025. On Saturday night at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, he finally got a hit, and made it count with the joint second-fastest IPL half-century of all time (in 14 deliveries).

The 30-year-old Guyanese not just resurrected a flagging RCB innings but turbocharged it to a sensational finish, accounting for a majority of the 54 runs that came in the last two overs as the home side pulverised Chennai Super Kings to the tune of 213 for five after having been put in by MS Dhoni.