Kolkata, May 8 -- There are louder batters than Heinrich Klaasen in this IPL-all younger, shinier, cinematic and unapologetically belligerent. Abhishek Sharma has taken powerplay hitting to a new level. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has arrived as one of the tournament's thrilling curiosities, the kind of batter engineered for highlight reels and algorithmic immortality. And yet, somewhere in the middle of all that noise, Klaasen has quietly become the league's most consistent and useful batter. Not the most marketable. Definitely not the most explosive too. Not even, statistically, the most destructive. But perhaps the player without whom the entire architecture of modern batting collapses. The oddity of Klaasen's season begins with the numbers the...