Anderson Cummins has quietly evolved into one of IPL’s most bankable all-phase match-winners, combining late-order carnage with death-overs control. Across eight seasons—2025 still unfolding in Sunrisers Hyderabad orange—he has hammered 612 runs off just 402 balls, striking at a blistering 152. Forty-one sixes and 39 fours punctuate those knocks, three of which raced past the fifty-run mark and peaked at a 66-run high. Yet it is with the ball that Cummins truly tilts games. Seventy-nine wickets from 72 innings at a strike rate of 20.47 tell only half the story: eight separate three-wicket bursts, 1,617 balls of relentless pressure, and an economy of 8.81 even at the death. His four-wicket haul remains the headline number, proof that when Cummins smells blood he rarely lets innings breathe. From Kolkata Knight Riders’ purple strongholds (2014-15, 2020-22) to Delhi Capitals’ 2017 chapter and now the orange surge with Sunrisers Hyderabad (2024-25), franchises have banked on the Barbadian’s dual threat. Whether clearing ropes in the final over or nailing yorkers to seal 20-run wins, Anderson Cummins keeps delivering clutch performances that swing both scorecards and seasons.

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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