Akash Singh IPL 2025: 9 wickets, two teams & the rise of Lucknow Super Giants’ left-arm pacer Left-arm seamer Akash Singh has quietly transformed from a 2021 Rajasthan Royals debutant into a key new-ball weapon for Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2025. Across three seasons and three different franchises, the 22-year-old has bowled 205 balls, claimed nine scalps at a strike-rate of 22.78 and kept his economy under 9.6. Although he is yet to record a three-wicket haul, his ability to strike twice in a spell—evidenced by his 2-wicket best—has already disrupted top orders. From donning the Royals’ pink in 2021, to Chennai Super Kings’ yellow in 2023, and now the vibrant LSG blue, Singh’s journey mirrors a modern IPL traveller honing his craft against the toughest stages. Nine wickets in ten bowling innings tell the story of a bowler trusted in crunch moments, while the 326 runs conceded reveal the thin margin between risk and reward in T20 cricket.

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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