Aiden Markram IPL profile: 1 440 runs off 1 066 balls, 135 strike-rate, 68 highest score, 10 fifties, 111 fours, 57 sixes in 55 innings for Lucknow Super Giants, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Punjab Kings across five seasons 2021-2025. The South African right-hander averages a boundary every third legal delivery and clears the rope once every 18 balls, making him one of the most explosive top-order options in the league. While he has sent down 187 balls and picked up six wickets at an economy of 8.79, batting remains his calling card—no centuries yet but a relentless stream of half-century cameos that swing matches.

Ajinkya Rahane IPL journey spans 17 seasons, 183 innings and a mountain of 5,032 runs that have come off 4,025 balls at a brisk strike-rate of 125. The Mumbai-born right-hander has punished bowlers for 514 fours and 123 sixes, crossing fifty 33 times and reaching three figures on two memorable occasions, the highest being an unbeaten 105. After stints with Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, Rising Pune Supergiant, Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings, he is back with Kolkata Knight Riders for IPL 2025. While Rahane has rolled his arm over only once in the league, picking up a solitary wicket in a six-ball cameo that cost five runs, he remains celebrated as one of the league’s most technically sound and consistent top-order batsmen.

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