Kolkata skipper Dinesh Karthik

The Kolkata would surely have let out a collective sigh of relief on Sunday evening. Having qualified for the playoffs the previous night, the one team as the Kolkata would’ve wanted to avoid from among the three that were still in contention was Mumbai. Rohit Sharma & Co. have been Kolkata’s nemesis over the years, and the dominance has never more emphatically demonstrated than in this T20 season.