India, April 4 -- There is a particular kind of attention on Rajasthan Royals right now, and most of it is focused on Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. That is easy to understand. The 15-year-old came into IPL 2026 carrying the noise of a prodigy season and then turned it louder with a 15-ball fifty earlier in the tournament. So when RR faced the Gujarat Titans, the spotlight naturally followed him again.

But this match offered another reminder. For all the fascination around Sooryavanshi's rise, Yashasvi Jaiswal remains the more complete top-order force in this batting unit right now. Against GT, he made 55 off 36 balls, hit six fours and three sixes, and gave RR the kind of innings that had pace, shape and control. It was not the noisiest knock, b...