Aniket Verma IPL 2025: Sunrisers Hyderabad’s six-hitting rookie who smashed 20 maximums in a single season Aniket Verma announced himself to the IPL in 2025 with the kind of fearless stroke-play that Sunrisers Hyderabad fans will remember for years. In just 12 innings the 23-year-old stacked up 236 runs off 142 balls, striking at 166 – the kind of tempo that turned middling totals into match-winning scores. A dozen fours and a jaw-dropping 20 sixes underline how regularly he cleared the ropes, while his maiden half-century – a 74-run blitz – came when the team needed quick runs at the death. Batting high up the order, Verma treated every over like a power-play, ensuring the scoring rate never dipped. With zero wickets and no bowling duties, it is clear where his value lies: explosive batting that can flip games in a matter of deliveries.

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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