India, April 26 -- Rajasthan Royals walked out of Jaipur with a defeat, but not without discovering the scale of the asset they are sitting on.

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi did not save RR from Sunrisers Hyderabad. He did something different. He made the loss look like a market correction around a stock that is still flying. In a game where SRH chased down 229 with nine balls left, the 15-year-old left-hander's 103 off 37 balls became the innings that added more weight to the financial reading of his season.

Sooryavanshi's century against the Sunrisers was a violent effort that bent the first innings around him. He reached his century in 36 balls, struck 12 sixes and five fours, and turned RR's innings into a 228/6 total that should have been e...