India, May 16 -- LSG did not win Match 59 through a single form of dominance. They got the headline innings from Mitchell Marsh and the hidden profit burst from Akash Singh, two performances that sat in different columns but pushed the same result.

Marsh's 90 off 38 gave Lucknow the obvious centrepiece. Akash's 3 for 26 gave them the quieter steal: a Rs.0.30 crore bowler producing the kind of match value that franchises usually pay far more to buy.

Mitchell Marsh was the most impactful player of the match by raw numbers. His 90 off 38 balls carried a batting impact score of 95.000, with his raw/core impact being 101.045, the highest in the game, even before manual ratings or captaincy layers entered the calculation. (by our model)

That...