India, May 30 -- Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored the slowest fifty of his IPL career on Friday night (off 31 balls), but it was his best innings on so many counts.

Everyone, including Sooryavanshi, knew Gujarat Titans, boasting Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna in their ranks, will pepper him with short-pitched deliveries in Qualifier 2, and he came prepared.

Let's admit it. He is not the greatest of players against short deliveries. What the 15-year-old showed on Friday night that he knew all about that weakness too. That playing bumpers was not exactly his strongest suit. To know your own shortcomings is not an ordinary trait. It's a trait that's all successful people have in common. Because they know they are not good at ...