BR Sharath IPL 2024: The Gujarat Titans’ untested wicket-keeper batsman made his lone appearance in the league stage against Sunrisers Hyderabad, walking in at No. 7 under lights at the Narendra Modi Stadium. Facing a late-innings squeeze, Sharath managed only 2 runs off 5 balls—a 40 strike-rate that tells the story of a brief, pressure-cooked cameo. Though he failed to find the boundary ropes, the Karnataka stumper’s composure behind the stumps kept the spotlight on his glove work. With no wickets to show and all bowling metrics marked NA, Sharath’s IPL debut remains a 2-run snapshot in an otherwise all-bat narrative.

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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