E Malinga IPL 2025: Sunrisers Hyderabad’s new-ball destroyer who struck early and often. In only seven innings the Sri Lankan speed-gun scorched 160 balls into the opposition, returning 13 priceless wickets at a sensational strike-rate of one scalp every 12.31 deliveries. His economy read 8.92 runs an over, but the real story is how quickly he broke partnerships—three-wicket burst in one spell, peak figures of 3-for in a single match. Malinga’s 2025 IPL season is a master-class in pace precision, proving that even a short campaign can leave a lasting impact when yorkers talk louder than numbers.

Virat Kohli is the undisputed batting king of the Indian Premier League, a Royal Challengers Bengaluru lifer who has turned loyalty into legend across 18 electrifying seasons from 2008 to 2025. With 8,661 runs off 6,519 balls, Kohli is the league’s highest-ever run-getter, firing at a strike rate of 132 and painting every corner of every ground with 771 fours and 291 towering sixes. His 63 half-centuries and 8 hundreds—topped by a blistering 113*—tell the story of a man who converts starts into statements, walking in 259 innings and delivering a match-defining fifty or hundred in roughly one out of every four trips to the crease. While he has rolled his arm over occasionally, claiming four wickets from 26 bowling innings, it is with the bat that Kohli has authored the IPL’s most enduring chronicle, forever clad in the red and gold of RCB.

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