India, May 19 -- Even at just 15, by the towering standards he has already set for himself, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi endured the most un-Sooryavanshi start on Tuesday at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. At one stage in the chase, he was crawling on 11 off 12 balls. But he soon turned that into a 23-ball fifty - a measured knock by his standards, in fact the slowest fifty of his IPL career so far. What followed was absolute mayhem at a venue where he had already scored both his previous IPL hundreds. A third century looked inevitable, only for him to fall agonisingly short on 93.

As surprising as it may sound, when Rajasthan Royals reached the 50-run mark in just 26 balls while chasing 221 at home, it was Yashasvi Jaiswal who had blasted...