Sooryavanshi was on 25 off 16 balls after eight overs and was struggling against Mohsin Khan in particular. But the big hits started flowing after that, and he got to his half-century in 23 balls – again, not one of his fastest – and he seemed to pull sixes out of everywhere after that. Two of them came in the ninth over against Akash Singh – he had hit just two before that – and then one against Digvesh Rathi, then two off Prince Yadav, two more off Mayank Yadav, one more off Rathi, taking his tally for the game to ten, before a Mohsin slower delivery got the better of him.

At the end of it, Sooryavanshi was No. 1 on the table with 579 runs. Marsh was second with 563. And then the table-toppers from Monday night: SRH’s Heinrich Klaasen with 555 runs, B Sai Sudharsan of Gujarat Titans (GT) with 554, his opening partner Shubman Gill with 552 runs followed, and then the rest.

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Prince Yadav, the most successful LSG bowler of the season, went wicketless for the third game in a row, leaving him stuck at 16 wickets, but Jofra Archer did send back Ayush Badoni in the first innings to get his haul for the season up to 18, and with that, the fourth spot on the table.

The top three of Bhuvneshwar Kumar of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB, 24 wickets), GT’s Kagiso Rabada (21 wickets) and Anshul Kamboj of Chennai Super Kings (CSK, 20 wickets) were not disturbed.

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