British Police said on Sunday they were investigating how a picture reported to be of the body of Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala had been taken and posted online.

Sala, 28, had been flying from his previous club Nantes in western France to Wales on Jan. 21 to join up with Cardiff City when the single-engined Piper Malibu aircraft disappeared over the English Channel.

- Borden: In search of Emiliano Sala

Wreckage was found on Feb. 3 following a privately-funded underwater search and a body was recovered three days later. Later that month Sala's body was flown back to Argentina for his funeral.

"We are aware that a picture reported to be of Mr. Sala's body has been shared on social media channels and are disgusted that somebody did this," a spokeswoman for Dorset Police said in a statement. "It is clearly a very difficult time for Mr Sala's family and they should not have to endure additional pain that this shameful act will undoubtedly cause.

"We are investigating this incident and are working together with a number of agencies to establish how the picture was taken and who is responsible."

It has been a very difficult period for the Sala family with Emiliano's father Horacio passing away following a sudden heart attack on Friday.

Cardiff and Nantes are in a dispute over Sala's transfer after the Premier League side refused to make the first scheduled payment for the Argentine.

The Bluebirds argue the agreement struck with Nantes regarding Sala's purchase was not legal as the French club failed to fulfill conditions they set.

FIFA has granted Cardiff City and Nantes extra time to submit full details of the transfer of Sala as the clubs look to schedule face-to-face talks.

Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar criticised some of his younger teammates after they lost the Coupe de France final to Rennes 6-5 on penalties after a 2-2 draw over 120 minutes.

The Brazil international doubled PSG's lead after Dani Alves' opener, but the Bretons fought back through a Presnel Kimpembe own goal and a Mexer strike before winning on penalties after Christopher Nkunku missed his kick.

Speaking in the mixed zone after the final whistle at Stade de France, Neymar urged his younger teammates to listen more to the older and more experienced members of the squad.

Leeds United's action-packed 1-1 draw against Aston Villa saw Sheffield United clinch the final automatic promotion to the Premier League after Norwich had clinched their place in the top flight on Saturday.

Despite knowing anything but a victory would end their hopes of automatic promotion, after opening the scoring on 72 minutes when Aston Villa's Jonathan Kodjia was injured, Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa allowed the visitors to equalise.

Leeds' Mateusz Klich had scored despite Villa players calling for the ball to be put out of play, and a mass brawl ensued on the pitch which involved both sets of players, which saw Anwar El Ghazi sent off for the away side.

Meanwhile, a separate row broke out on the benches, with Bielsa going head-to-head with Villa assistant boss John Terry.

When play eventually restarted, Villa were allowed to run unchallenged as Albert Adomah ran the length of the half to equalise, although Leeds' Pontus Jansson did try unsuccessfully to put in a tackle.

Leeds pressed for a winner, which would have taken the race for the final automatic spot to the final deep into the eight minutes of stoppage time but had to settle for a point.

Villa boss Dean Smith said Klich apologised for his goal and also gave credit to Bielsa for allowing Villa to score unimpeded.

"Klich has apologised," Smith told Sky Sports. "Every credit to Leeds and Marcelo Bielsa for putting that right.

"I asked him and he agreed. He said 'yes'. He apologised for what happened. Fair play to them. It was a good game of football until that moment."

Bielsa said he had allowed Villa to score in the spirit of sportsmanship.

"We gave the goal back," Bielsa said. "English football is known for its sportsmanship, so I don't need to comment on this kind of thing, which is common in English football."

Villa defender Tyrone Mings also praised Leeds for allowing them to score the equaliser after failing to put the ball out of play so Kodjia could get treatment.

"We kicked it out for them," Mings said after the game. "But listen each to their own. Fair play to their manager for saying we can go and score a goal, full credit to them for saying we could go and score."

Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder told Sky Sports at the team celebration: "First and foremost, Marcelo Bielsa full respect, Patrick Bamford not. He [Bielsa] did the right thing, Bamford didn't.

"At the moment we're the second best team in the division and we're going to try and be the best next Sunday."

The result means Leeds can no longer catch the top two in the Championship and are guaranteed a playoff spot alongside Aston Villa and West Brom.

The final place will be between Derby, in sixth place, and Middlesbrough in seventh, as the two sides are level on points with only one match remaining in the season.

Information from Reuters was used in this report

Arsenal suffered a third successive defeat in the Premier League as they lost 3-0 at Leicester after seeing Ainsley Maitland-Niles red carded on 36 minutes.

Goals from Youri Tielemans and a late Jaime Vardy double gave the home side the win after a dominant performance against Unai Emery's side.

The contest was fairly even until Maitland-Niles' early sending-off for two yellow cards, and then Leicester took control -- with Jamie Vardy coming closest to opening the scoring.

But the breakthrough did eventually come on 59 minutes when James Maddison's cross found Tielemans, who headed past Bernd Leno.

And the German goalkeeper was on hand to make several top-class saves in order to keep his team in it as Leicester dominated. Ricardo Pereira and Ben Chilwell both saw efforts parried, while Maddison curled a delightful effort just wide.

With five minutes remaining, Vardy ran onto a long ball from Kasper Schmeichel over the top of the Arsenal defence and, having seen his effort initially come off the bar, was on hand to head in the rebound.

And, with the last kick of the match, he tapped in from close range after being teed up by Ricardo Pereira.

Leicester, who have beaten Manchester City and Chelsea and earned a draw at Liverpool, registered their first victory over a top six side since Brendan Rodgers took over as manager in February and remain on course for seventh.

Arsenal, meanwhile, stay fifth and will finish the weekend outside the top four.

BURNLEY, England -- Manchester City moved back top of the Premier League with a nail-biting 1-0 victory at Burnley on Sunday. After a goalless first half, City finally found the breakthrough when Sergio Aguero's mishit shot crossed the line by 29.51 millimetres and was awarded by goal-line technology.

Positives

City were under real pressure to keep their title destiny in their own hands after a dismal opening 45 minutes, but they dug deep to secure the three points they needed. With eight days' rest until their next match against Leicester City, this was the biggest test for them remaining physically and they managed to find an extra ounce of energy when it was required most to grind out a victory.

Negatives

A draining doubleheader against Tottenham and Manchester United immediately following their Champions League exit looked like it had caught up to City. They were languid and short of ideas in a disappointing first-half display. It left the game on a knife edge with the Clarets still pushing for an equaliser until the very last kick of the game.

Manager rating out of 10

8 -- Whatever Pep Guardiola said at half-time, he transformed his side after a very poor first half. He had recalled Leroy Sane after his impressive second-half display in the Manchester derby victory, but the German winger failed to take the opportunity he's been craving with a poor display, and the Catalan hooked him early in the second half. The City boss's main surprise was to switch Raheem Sterling to a No. 10 role, with Bernardo Silva outside him, but the move lessened his impact.

Player ratings (1-10; 10 = best. Players introduced after 70 minutes get no rating)

GK Ederson, 7 -- Dealt with high balls, quick off his line to long balls and his usual cool passing.

DF Kyle Walker, 8 -- Guardiola name checked winger Dwight McNeill as a threat going into the game but was kept quiet with Walker the bigger threat going forward.

DF Vincent Kompany, 7 -- Couldn't win every high ball but was largely untroubled by Chris Wood.

DF Aymeric Laporte, 7 -- Gave as good as he got in his typically robust tussle with Ashley Barnes but stopped him being a goal threat.

DF Oleksandr Zinchenko, 6 -- Neat and tidy but his link-up play with Sane was poor as City offered little threat down the left side.

MF Ilkay Gundogan, 6 -- The Clarets did their best to stop him dictating the play, and he wasn't quite the usual influence he has been in recent months.

FW Bernardo Silva, 7 -- A threat moving forward and was unlucky with one rasping drive.

MF David Silva, 6 -- Passing wasn't quite at the mark City expect from the playmaker in a game with such tight spaces.

FW Raheem Sterling, 6 -- Found it difficult to create space as Burnley closed him down at every opportunity.

FW Sergio Aguero, 8 -- Ran hard leading the line and when the moment came he somehow scrambled in the opener.

FW Leroy Sane, 5 -- Struggled to make any impact on the game.

Substitutes

FW Gabriel Jesus, 7 -- Gave City some much needed energy and a greater goal threat, unlucky to have one effort clears off the line.

MF John Stones, N/R -- Gave more protection in front of the back four.

DF Nicolas Otamendi, N/R -- Came on to bolster defence in injury time.

Namibia 226 for 7 (Birkenstock 61, Fayyaz 2-28) beat Oman 81 (Suraj 27, Frylinck 5-13, Smit 3-21) by 145 runs

In a tournament where home-field advantage has often played a huge role in gaining promotion, Namibia was one of the few nations with a relatively modest record playing at home in the World Cricket League. But they corrected that in their final opportunity, walking away with the WCL Division Two title on Saturday afternoon with a thumping win over Oman at Wanderers Sports Club.

In the process, Namibia also created history by winning an ODI for the first time, having gone 0 for 6 at the 2003 World Cup. Another historic achievement on the day was made by Australian Claire Polosak, who became the first female umpire to stand in a men's ODI for the tournament final.

Karl Birkenstock, who had batted as low as No. 9 earlier in the tournament, was sent in to open the batting and proved his worth by top-scoring with 61 off 108 balls. Oman took wickets at regular intervals though, as Birkenstock struggled to find a partner before he fell to Zeeshan Maqsood at the end of the 35th over.

After adding an unbroken 103-run stand on Friday against Hong Kong, the duo of JJ Smit and Zane Green produced Namibia's biggest partnership of the day, adding 57 for the sixth wicket at a time when the match was evenly balanced to help boost Namibia toward 200.

Jan Frylinck decimated Oman with his left-arm medium pace early in the chase, claiming three wickets in the Powerplay as Oman sunk to 26 for 4 by the end of the eighth over. Christi Viljoen then struck twice in the space of three balls in the 16th over to break into the Oman tail, sending them on their way to a double-digit total for the second match in a row, after having dominated the first four days of action.

Frylinck returned to claim Suraj Kumar for a top score of 27 before Fayyaz Butt was caught behind to complete his maiden List A five-wicket haul. After having claimed opening batsman Jatinder Singh for a second-ball duck with the new ball, JJ Smit wiped out the rest of the tail to finish with three wickets. It helped Smit cement Man of the Tournament honours as he finished the week tied for fourth overall with 13 wickets at 14.53, while also ending up third overall with 221 runs at 55.25.

Papua New Guinea 165 for 5 (Siaka 62, Timil 2-34) beat USA 164 (Timil 50, Vanua 4-37, Pokana 3-28) by five wickets

After being steamrolled by USA in a 10-wicket mauling during the round-robin stage, Papua New Guinea showed they truly earned back their ODI status with a thrilling last day win over Oman by exacting revenge on the Americans in a resounding five-wicket victory at Affies Park in the third place match.

Sending USA in at the toss, PNG's medium pace attack exploited variable bounce throughout the morning. Nosaina Pokana and Norman Vanua wrecked USA's top order with four wickets inside the first eight overs. Man of the Match Vanua was on a hat-trick after claiming Aaron Jones caught behind for 2 followed by Jaskaran Malhotra dragging onto his stumps for a golden duck on ODI debut.

Hayden Walsh Jr worked hard to revive the innings for USA, making 27 in a 43-run stand with Monank Patel, but USA's innings began to flounder once more after Walsh chipped a catch to midwicket off Assad Vala to make it 78 for 5. Monank had grafted hard for his 39 after opening the batting, but walked too far across his stumps to legspinner Charles Amini and was given lbw. Karima Gore was then suckered into an attempt to clear mid-on hitting against the spin, resulting in a top-edge taken by Chad Soper to leave USA struggling at 105 for 7.

Timil Patel fought valiantly to prop up USA's tail, eventually ending up with USA's maiden ODI fifty. But Vanua returned to help wipe out the tail with Pokana as USA were bowled out for 164 in just 43.4 overs.

USA looked to be in with a chance of rallying to their first ODI win after Saurabh Netravalkar had Tony Ura caught behind in the sixth over, before Ali Khan bowled Vala shouldering arms to an inswinger in the following over to make it 25 for 2. Amini was caught behind edging a back of a length ball off Jessy Singh as PNG continued to teeter before Lega Siaka steadied the chase with his first 50-plus score in ODIs since making a century in his second ODI all the way back in November 2014 against Hong Kong.

Siaka was especially strong on the sweep, punishing Timil's legspin for a series of boundaries. Vanua than completed his Man of the Match performance by slugging three sixes straight down the ground off Karima Gore in the 33rd over as part of a 23-run frame that ended the match with 17 overs to spare.

Canada 114 for 5 (Hiral 50, Ravinderpal 41*, Ehsan 2-16) beat Hong Kong 113 (Babar 32, Saad 4-30) by five wickets

Canada bounced back from the heartbreak of narrowly missing out on ODI status by four runs on net run rate, to end with their third win of the tournament, dispatching Hong Kong with ease at United Cricket Club.

Cecil Pervez claimed the big scalps of Anshy Rath and Kinchit Shah in the Powerplay before the Canadian ploy to open with spin at the other end paid off in the 11th over as Hiral Patel nabbed Jamie Atkinson and Ahsan Abbasi on consecutive balls. Babar Hayat added 53 with Scott McKechnie for the fifth wicket, but left-arm spinner Saad bin Zafar had Babar stumped for 32 to spark a rapid slide as Hong Kong lost their last six wickets for 30 runs, with four of them going to Saad.

Hiral wrapped up Man of the Match honours by following his two wickets with a half-century at the start of Canada's chase. Ravinderpal Singh took over the bulk of the scoring after Hiral fell in the 13th, smashing three sixes in a 23-ball 41 that took Canada over the line in just 16.5 overs.

Delhi Capitals 187 for 5 (Iyer 52, Dhawan 50, Rutherford 28*, Chahal 2-41) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 171 for 7 (Parthiv 39, Stoinis 32*, Gurkeerat 27, Mishra 2-29, Rabada 2-31) by 16 runs

Delhi Capitals vaulted to the top of the IPL points table with a 16-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore at home, the win putting them in the playoffs for the first time since 2012. They had star performers all around, starting with half-centuries from Shikhar Dhawan and Shreyas Iyer, then a good finishing job from Sherfane Rutherford and Axar Patel, and finally a clinical bowling performance led by Amit Mishra and Kagiso Rabada.

Mishra took two wickets in the crucial 13th over, and Rabada was excellent in the death overs - not to forget Ishant Sharma's four-run 19th over - to leave Royal Challengers with no chance of pulling out a fourth successive win in their late-season resurgence.

Dhawan, Iyer set a strong platform

Dhawan and Iyer struck fifties, lasting exactly 37 balls each. They struck seven fours and five sixes between them, as they added 68 runs for the second wicket that put Capitals in a position to push towards a big total. Dhawan mostly got his boundaries on the on-side, apart from hitting a four and a six through the covers and long-off. All five of Iyer's boundaries - the two fours and three sixes - came through midwicket, while he found plenty of ones and twos on the leg-side too.

Late charge gives Capitals a winning total

But once Dhawan and Iyer fell within three overs of each other, Capitals slowed down significantly. In between their dismissals in the 13th and 16th overs, Rishabh Pant also fell for seven off as many balls, which left the rest of the batting with a lot to do to get close to the 200-run mark. Colin Ingram fell for 11 too, to make it tougher, but Rutherford and Axar added 46 runs in the last 3.1 overs to get them to a score that eventually proved good enough. Rutherford struck three sixes and a four in his unbeaten 13-ball 28, while Patel struck three fours in his unbeaten 16.

Capitals fielders back up their bowlers

Rahul Tewatia, fielding as a substitute, dropped Shivam Dube at a crucial juncture in the game, in the ninth over. That was, however, just one blip in an outstanding catching performance from the Capitals players on the day.

The first was from Axar, who plucked Parthiv's crunched cut out of thin air at point in the sixth over. Rutherford then took a straightforward - though hard-hit - catch off a Kohli pull at the deep soon after, but the real stunners were to follow. Axar again, away at deep midwicket, made good ground, caught the ball, and did a neat skip to avoid the boards to send AB de Villiers back, and Shikhar Dhawan pulled off a cool, running catch for Dube's dismissal.

The what-a-catch moments, though, belonged to Pant. First, when he hared away towards square-leg and threw in the dive to just about pouch Heinrich Klaasen. And then, in the penultimate over, when he dived and flung out his right hand to grab the chance off Gurkeerat Singh's flash.

Kohli & Co. lose their way

Parthiv Patel once again provided Royal Challengers with a fast start, hitting seven fours and a six in his 20-ball 39, as he added 63 with Virat Kohli in the opening stand. But once Axar caught Parthiv smartly at point off Rabada, Royal Challengers slowly slipped downwards.

Kohli and AB de Villiers both fell to catches in the deep trying to pull half-trackers from Axar and Rutherford respectively, before Heinrich Klaasen, playing only his second IPL game of the season, was brilliantly caught by Pant in the 13th over. After Klaasen's attempted scoop hit his helmet and lobbed away from the wicketkeeper, Pant ran hard to his left and dived to complete the catch at full stretch. Shivam Dube's departure later in the same over added to Royal Challengers' woes, as the equation went up to 77 from seven.

No late surge as Rabada and Ishant shine

Gurkeerat Singh hitting Ishant for two fours and a six in the 17th over certainly gave Royal Challengers some hope, with the equation down from 52 off 24 to a very gettable 36 from 18. But Rabada conceded just six runs in the following over and Ishant, desperate to have another go and prove a point, then went for four in the penultimate over, before Rabada shut down the chase with another efficient final over in which he gave away just nine runs.

Bangladesh have added pace bowler Taskin Ahmed and medium-pace-bowling allrounder Farhad Reza to the squad for the tri-series in Ireland, which begins next week.

With the addition of the two, the squad has swelled to 19, with the selectors having earlier added offspinner Nayeem Hasan and offspinning allrounder Yasir Ali to the 15-member provisional World Cup squad, which was picked two weeks ago.

Taskin's selection didn't come as much of a surprise, given that he was among the standby players for the World Cup - there are injury concerns around senior pacemen Rubel Hossain and Mustafizur Rahman.

But Farhad's selection was a bit out of the blue, given that he hasn't been part of the senior side since the 2014 World T20, and last played an ODI in 2011. ESPNcricinfo understands that coach Steve Rhodes requested the BCB to include Farhad, likely as a back-up alternative for Mohammad Saifuddin, who has a tennis elbow problem. Farhad was the highest wicket-taker in the Dhaka Premier League that concluded last week.

The tri-series, to be played in Dublin, will start on May 5 with Ireland and West Indies, the third team in the competition, facing off. Bangladesh play their first match on May 7 against West Indies. The series, with each team facing the others twice before the top two teams play the final, will run till May 17.

Bangladesh squad for Ireland tri-series: Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Tamim Iqbal, Liton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mahmudullah, Shakib Al Hasan, Mohammad Mithun, Sabbir Rahman, Mosaddek Hossain, Mohammad Shaifuddin, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Rubel Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Abu Jayed, Nayeem Hasan, Yasir Ali, Taskin Ahmed, Farhad Reza

Lancashire 83 for 1 (Croft 37*, Hameed 29*) beat Leicestershire 80 (Dearden 20, Mahmood 5-14) by nine wickets

Saqib Mahmood became the first Lancashire bowler to take five wickets in successive List A games as his side overwhelmed Leicestershire by nine wickets in a one-sided Royal London One-Day Cup match at Emirates Old Trafford.

Following his six-wicket return against Northamptonshire on Wednesday, Mahmood bagged 5 for 14 against a visiting team which contained five former Lancashire players. Leicestershire were bowled out for 80 in 37 overs, their lowest List A total against Lancashire, with only Harry Dearden and Ben Mike reaching double figures.

Lancashire took only 19 overs to secure their facile victory, Haseeb Hameed making 29 not out and Steven Croft finishing unbeaten on 37 after the pair had put on an unbroken 73 for the second wicket. The only Lancashire batsman dismissed was Keaton Jennings who drilled a back-foot drive off Dieter Klein to the right of Mark Cosgrove at cover-point, only to see the Australian take a brilliant reflex catch.

The conclusion of a game which had featured a dozen maidens but only one six was in sharp contrast to the beginning of the contest four-and-a-half hours earlier.

Bowling straight and very quickly, Mahmood took his first wicket in the fourth over when he brought one back off the seam to have Cosgrove leg before wicket for a single. Next over he extracted enough bounce from the Old Trafford wicket to take the edge of Paul Horton's bat and Jennings pouched the catch at first slip.

Colin Ackermann was the next to go when he was bowled through the gate for one and Dearden followed for 20 in the twelfth over when he fished at a ball outside the off stump but only succeeded in giving a low catch to Jennings.

Liam Hurt joined the party to reduce Leicestershire to 42 for 5, although Lewis Hill's wild slash was not a shot he will recall with much fondness. Lancashire's Dane Vilas was not complaining, though; he took the catch behind the stumps and decided to keep Mahmood bowling from the Statham End.

Hurt then had Arron Lilley, another returning Lancastrian, caught down the leg side for a single, although the batsman's disappointment at Paul Baldwin's decision was evident. At that point Leicestershire were 46 for 6 and Mahmood was removed from the attack with figures of 7-2-12-4.

Jimmy Anderson enjoyed his only success when Callum Parkinson edged him to Vilas but the England seamer clutched an outstanding one-handed diving catch at mid-on to give Mahmood his fifth wicket when Lewis Hill miscued a pull after batting 52 minutes for 18. That wicket fell three overs after the departure of Klein, who was caught at slip off Glenn Maxwell and the innings ended in the 37th over when Rob Jones bowled Gavin Griffiths for four to end his last-wicket partnership of 12 with Chris Wright.

The only gloomy note for the home side was struck when Matt Parkinson was forced to leave the field with an injured finger after stopping a fierce return drive from Mike.

The first innings of the match was watched from the balcony of the Hilton Garden Hotel by the Chelsea players, Eden Hazard, Gonzalo Higuain and Pedro Rodriguez, who had stayed overnight at Old Trafford before their game at Manchester United.

Delhi Capitals 187 for 5 (Iyer 52, Dhawan 50, Rutherford 28*, Chahal 2-41) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 171 for 7 (Parthiv 39, Stoinis 32*, Gurkeerat 27, Mishra 2-29, Rabada 2-31) by 16 runs

Delhi Capitals vaulted to the top of the IPL points table with a 16-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore at home, the win putting them in the playoffs for the first time since 2012. They had star performers all around, starting with half-centuries from Shikhar Dhawan and Shreyas Iyer, then a good finishing job from Sherfane Rutherford and Axar Patel, and finally a clinical bowling performance led by Amit Mishra and Kagiso Rabada.

Mishra took two wickets in the crucial 13th over, and Rabada was excellent in the death overs - not to forget Ishant Sharma's four-run 19th over - to leave Royal Challengers with no chance of pulling out a fourth successive win in their late-season resurgence.

Dhawan, Iyer set a strong platform

Dhawan and Iyer struck fifties, lasting exactly 37 balls each. They struck seven fours and five sixes between them, as they added 68 runs for the second wicket that put Capitals in a position to push towards a big total. Dhawan mostly got his boundaries on the on-side, apart from hitting a four and a six through the covers and long-off. All five of Iyer's boundaries - the two fours and three sixes - came through midwicket, while he found plenty of ones and twos on the leg-side too.

Late charge gives Capitals a winning total

But once Dhawan and Iyer fell within three overs of each other, Capitals slowed down significantly. In between their dismissals in the 13th and 16th overs, Rishabh Pant also fell for seven off as many balls, which left the rest of the batting with a lot to do to get close to the 200-run mark. Colin Ingram fell for 11 too, to make it tougher, but Rutherford and Axar added 46 runs in the last 3.1 overs to get them to a score that eventually proved good enough. Rutherford struck three sixes and a four in his unbeaten 13-ball 28, while Patel struck three fours in his unbeaten 16.

Capitals fielders back up their bowlers

Rahul Tewatia, fielding as a substitute, dropped Shivam Dube at a crucial juncture in the game, in the ninth over. That was, however, just one blip in an outstanding catching performance from the Capitals players on the day.

The first was from Axar, who plucked Parthiv's crunched cut out of thin air at point in the sixth over. Rutherford then took a straightforward - though hard-hit - catch off a Kohli pull at the deep soon after, but the real stunners were to follow. Axar again, away at deep midwicket, made good ground, caught the ball, and did a neat skip to avoid the boards to send AB de Villiers back, and Shikhar Dhawan pulled off a cool, running catch for Dube's dismissal.

The what-a-catch moments, though, belonged to Pant. First, when he hared away towards square-leg and threw in the dive to just about pouch Heinrich Klaasen. And then, in the penultimate over, when he dived and flung out his right hand to grab the chance off Gurkeerat Singh's flash.

Kohli & Co. lose their way

Parthiv Patel once again provided Royal Challengers with a fast start, hitting seven fours and a six in his 20-ball 39, as he added 63 with Virat Kohli in the opening stand. But once Axar caught Parthiv smartly at point off Rabada, Royal Challengers slowly slipped downwards.

Kohli and AB de Villiers both fell to catches in the deep trying to pull half-trackers from Axar and Rutherford respectively, before Heinrich Klaasen, playing only his second IPL game of the season, was brilliantly caught by Pant in the 13th over. After Klaasen's attempted scoop hit his helmet and lobbed away from the wicketkeeper, Pant ran hard to his left and dived to complete the catch at full stretch. Shivam Dube's departure later in the same over added to Royal Challengers' woes, as the equation went up to 77 from seven.

No late surge as Rabada and Ishant shine

Gurkeerat Singh hitting Ishant for two fours and a six in the 17th over certainly gave Royal Challengers some hope, with the equation down from 52 off 24 to a very gettable 36 from 18. But Rabada conceded just six runs in the following over and Ishant, desperate to have another go and prove a point, then went for four in the penultimate over, before Rabada shut down the chase with another efficient final over in which he gave away just nine runs.