Corey Anderson IPL profile: 538 runs at 127 strike-rate, 31 sixes, 3 fifties, 95* best New Zealand power-hitter Corey Anderson lit up four IPL seasons between 2014 and 2018, leaving a trail of 31 towering sixes and 40 fours while wearing the colours of Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals and finally Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Walking in at 29 innings, Anderson hammered 538 runs off just 423 balls and maintained a fearsome strike-rate of 127—numbers that underline why he was always viewed as a batting all-rounder first. Three bruising half-centuries, topped by an unbeaten 95 against Rajasthan in 2015, carried the left-hander’s reputation as a genuine six-hitting match-winner. With the ball he rolled his arm over sparingly, sending down 297 balls for 11 wickets at an economy of 10.46, never going past two wickets in an innings but still providing the captain with a handy sixth-bowling option.

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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