Two bizarre tailspins later, once posting 264 and then crumbling to 75, Delhi Capitals resuscitated their drowning season with an emphatic victory over Rajasthan Royals. Openers KL Rahul and Pathum Nissanka, with their 110-run stand, were the chief architects. The finishing act of Ashutosh Sharma and Tristan Stubbs, chomping on the toothless Royals’ bowling attack, for 49 runs from 24 balls, was equally significant in their successful pursuit of 226. The biggest gift of Rahul is his biggest curse too. His game is risk-free, percentage-shots reliant, dictated by orthodoxies; his game is largely muscle-free. So much so that he is horribly misconstrued as an oddball opener in the era of unabashed hitters. But this season, he has been rollicking at a strike rate of 185.83. Add the average of 54.12, and he becomes a fearsome proposition. Resolved by failures and steeled by experience, he stripped the chase to its nuts and bolts and devised the ideal method.…