India, May 2 -- Probably the best thing to happen to Vaibhav Suryavanshi after his headbanging 35 ball century is that duck on Thursday night. Other than dishing out the starter lesson from Cricket 101 - that the lessons ain't stopping, boyo - everyone can breathe normally again. Social media can resume hyperventilating about MI Rising (Again) and Rajasthan Royals get the space to look over what has been a messy season.

But even when this IPL is done, there will be no ignoring Suryavanshi. His ascent onto public notice is many Indian cricket things rolled into one. The most soulful of which has to be how news of prodigious young talent almost instinctively, automatically works the levers across Indian cricket. It's like a Chinese whisper...