A Raghuvanshi IPL profile: Kolkata Knight Riders’ rising batting star has lit up the league across two seasons, 2024 and 2025, stacking 463 runs from just 18 innings at an electric strike-rate of 144. The 320 balls he has faced tell the story of intent—46 boundaries and 16 sixes already pepper the stands, underlining a fearless approach that keeps the scoreboard racing. Twice he has cruised past fifty, with a career-best 54 showing the ceiling of his pyrotechnics. Though yet to raise a maiden hundred, the frequency with which he finds the fence—nearly one four every seven balls—makes him a nightmare for opposition captains. Having worn the KKR jersey from day one, Raghuvanshi is fast becoming the go-to accelerator in the franchise’s middle order, and at this trajectory, triple-digit landmarks may arrive sooner than later.

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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