India, April 16 -- Royal Challengers Bengaluru did not just beat Lucknow Super Giants at the Chinnaswamy on Tuesday night. They produced one of those wins where the scoreline looked comfortable, but the real shift happened much earlier, when one bowler kept punching holes into the innings and never really let the other side settle.

That bowler was Rasikh Salam. His figures of 4/25 were sharp enough on their own, but the value of the spell becomes even clearer when viewed through the lens of match worth. In our model, Rasikh's return from this game comes to Rs.1.0486 crore. Put that against the Tata Sierra's starting ex-showroom price of Rs.11.49 lakh, and RCB effectively got a spell worth nearly nine Tata Sierras.

RCB chased down 147 in...