India, April 11 -- They had all come to watch Virat Kohli. They went away admiring Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. The predominantly Royal Challengers Bengaluru-leaning Guwahati crowd shifted loyalties almost organically towards the home side, as soon as the pocket dynamo from Bihar began putting on a show during Rajasthan Royals' chase of 202.

He showed scant respect to the league's highest wicket-taking pace bowler to begin with. The speed at which Sooryavanshi slammed a Bhuvneshwar Kumar full length ball with his high back lift straight past the bowler was just a teaser. A battle against Josh Hazlewood, one of the great seam bowlers of our time, should have been a sterner test for the youngster but that's not how it panned out.

Sooryavanshi of...