Asif K M IPL 2023: Rajasthan Royals mystery spinner strikes at 19 balls per wicket, pocketing seven scalps in just 133 deliveries. After quiet seasons with Chennai Super Kings in 2018 and 2021, the 25-year-old returned in RR colours and immediately tightened the screws, twice ripping out two-wicket bursts to choke rival middle orders. Operating at a brisk economy of 10.42, Asif has shown he can hold his nerve in the death overs while still hunting wickets every three overs. With 231 runs conceded across seven sharp bowling innings, his economy story is one of controlled aggression—no five-fors yet, but the knack for breaking partnerships keeps him on the Royals’ radar.

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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