IPL 2025: A Kamboj’s meteoric rise as Chennai Super Kings’ new-ball enforcer In just two seasons, A Kamboj has shifted the spotlight from his modest batting cameos to a breakout bowling master-class. Across 11 innings for Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2025, the right-arm quick has rattled 10 wickets in 189 balls, returning a snappy strike-rate of 18.9 and a best of 3 for 28. His solitary three-wicket burst—against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Chepauk—helped CSK defend 190 and underlined why the franchise traded him from Mumbai Indians after IPL 2024. Kamboj’s economy of 9.08 is aggressive rather than reckless; he backs yorkers and hard-lengths that concede boundaries but harvest wickets. The 10 scalps include power-play openers and death-over finishers, showcasing versatility across phases. Those numbers gain context when viewed alongside his cameo batting: 16 runs off 14 balls with two fours, a strike-rate of 114, and a highest score of 5—figures that tell the story of a bowler who bats only when the situation demands. From donning Mumbai blue in 2024 to forging Chennai yellow in 2025, Kamboj’s journey is one of rapid adaptation. With 10 wickets already this season and a best haul of 3 for, fantasy managers and analysts alike are tagging him as the dark-horse for IPL 2025 Purple Cap contention.

Chris Gayle IPL story: 13 seasons, 4 965 runs, 357 sixes and one unforgettable 175. The self-styled “Universe Boss” walked into IPL 2009 with Kolkata Knight Riders, but it was at Royal Challengers Bengaluru from 2011-2017 that he became a global T20 icon—belting 404 fours and 357 sixes overall at a jaw-dropping strike rate of 148. In 141 innings he cleared the rope once every 9.3 balls and produced 31 half-centuries plus six blistering hundreds, the most famous being his record 175* off 66 balls at the Chinnaswamy in 2013. After his Bengaluru fireworks, Gayle took his power game to Punjab Kings, turning up in orange from 2018 to 2021 and continuing to pepper boundaries with the same ruthless ease. While he rolled his arm over occasionally—18 wickets in 38 bowling innings—his narrative is written in soaring sixes and match-winning hundreds that re-defined T20 batting forever.

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