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.

Virat Kohli is the undisputed batting king of the Indian Premier League, a Royal Challengers Bengaluru lifer who has turned loyalty into legend across 18 electrifying seasons from 2008 to 2025. With 8,661 runs off 6,519 balls, Kohli is the league’s highest-ever run-getter, firing at a strike rate of 132 and painting every corner of every ground with 771 fours and 291 towering sixes. His 63 half-centuries and 8 hundreds—topped by a blistering 113*—tell the story of a man who converts starts into statements, walking in 259 innings and delivering a match-defining fifty or hundred in roughly one out of every four trips to the crease. While he has rolled his arm over occasionally, claiming four wickets from 26 bowling innings, it is with the bat that Kohli has authored the IPL’s most enduring chronicle, forever clad in the red and gold of RCB.

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