Ashwin was spotted practising the shot on the eve of the match. ©BCCI/IPL
Perhaps nothing captured the night's irony as well as that shot from Ravichandran Ashwin.
The shot which dispatched a leg-stump delivery over backward point. The shot which stood out on a night with third-most dot balls bowled this season. The shot which was played on a pitch that Rajasthan Royals are "not used to" this season in the words of Sanju Samson.
Of course, a lot more happened