Akash Deep IPL profile: 10 wickets in 14 innings, 11.83 economy, best 3-19 for Lucknow Super Giants 2025 Fast-bowler Akash Deep has quietly built a reputation as a strike-rate weapon across four IPL campaigns. Since debuting with Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2022, the Bengal pacer has sent down 278 balls, claiming 10 wickets at a strike rate of 27.8. His standout spell came in 2025 when, now turning out for Lucknow Super Giants, he rattled the opposition with a career-best 3-19, his lone three-wicket haul to date. Capable of touching the 140-mark and extracting steep bounce, Akash Deep concedes 11.83 runs per over—acceptable in today’s high-scoring era—while keeping captains interested with his knack for breaking partnerships. With only 14 IPL games so far, the 27-year-old remains a developing asset whose raw pace and improving death-bowling skills could define LSG’s surge in coming seasons.

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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