Jayant Yadav bowled exceptionally well and he was getting purchase from the wicket as well and the wicket he got where Dhawan played the wrong line entirely and it was a beautiful ball and i thought MI would have gone with Bumrah for one more over and that wicket happened and he bowled an economical spell. Shreyas Iyer played well and whenever he scored runs his strike rate was not that high and that was another factor which hurt the team.

Food for thought...

Should Rohit lead the Team India in T-20 format? Dude got 5 IPL trophy under his belt and when comparing his captaincy with Virat in the T-20 format, he's miles ahead of him, not to mention Virat seems Panuti/Unlucky in the ICC tournaments. 

First 4 overs was really game changer for DC because they lost their key players even Iyer and Pant done some good job at the end but this was really poor from their top order and at the end they was short of 20 to 25 runs which give some good advantage to MI as they also have very good batting line up so now its all end with very entertaining match and Congrats to MI for 5th trophy.

On one hand BCCI select team on basis of IPL performance but there is zero contest when its comes to Captaincy. BCCI believes that 1 captain should lead the national team in all 3 format, it used to make sense before but in modern cricket its tough task to ask if we consider workload of international player, hope some sense prevails in BCCI.

MI are champions and Rohit knows how to make it win and perform well in the finals . This quality has helped them as a unit and each players delivers when it is required . I think this time their would not be any after party due to pandemic which generally happens at their house after winning the trophy where entire staff is present .

Have to agree with at least some of the points here. There is no doubt that MI was the strongest team in this IPL. They had world class bowlers such as Jasprit Bumrah and Trent Boult, and promising batsmen such as Ishan Kishan. I don't think that they could have fared worse, if Virat was the captain. On the other hand, RCB was a relatively weak and inexperienced team if you remove the 2-3 world class players such as Virat and AB de Villiers.

Earlier most of the boards would pick the same players for all the formats, with a few exceptions. But now that is not the case. They have separate sets of players for all the three formats. Some of the boards have one set of players for test matches and ODIs, while another set for the T20Is. Overall, this is beneficial for the players as it gives more opportunities to the younger players and makes sure that the key players are not overburdened.

Well, I don't think that 157 was a good score to defend when your opponent have got players like Rohit Sharma. Everybody knows what he can do. So I believe Delhi Capitals needed more than 170 runs.. may be 180 to defend against strong team Like Mumbai Indians. Everybody expected much tougher competition in the finals, but that wasn't the case. MI easily won the match and lift the title for the 5th time.

You are correct, as MI bowled well to restrict them to just 36 runs in last 5 overs where they had still 6 wickets left. This would have given some relief as the chase was under 8 an over and the way Rohit started his innings seemed he was set for the target to chase easily and it happened the same. But overall was a good match but not really a tough final that would have expected.

Death bowling I think has always been the strength of Mumbai Indians. I think the few matches that Mumbai lost were actually the ones in which their death bowling failed. Bumrah has become such a dreadful bowler. Boult too got his rhythm in the later part of the tournament. I think Mumbai Indians have invested pretty wisely on their players. They have Rohit, Pollard, Hardik, Krunal and Bumrah since 2013. All they do is pickup a few good foreign players a form a team around these 5 people who are their core. Luckily for them all of these players deliver at the end in some way or the other.
I think if we see only the second half of the tournament Delhi didn't really deserved the title in any way. They performed pretty badly in second half. There were other teams who performed much better. I expected SRH to reach the finals as they played much better in the later half. All on all I felt matches in the later half of the IPL much less thrilling.