Herschelle Gibbs IPL career in four seasons from 2008 to 2012 was a crash-course in fearless top-order batting. The South African dasher amassed 886 runs off just 807 deliveries, translating to an eye-catching strike rate of 109. His 36 innings were laced with 83 fours and 31 sixes—power zones that made Gibbs a nightmare for bowlers across three franchises. Gibbs’ highest IPL score of 69 tells only half the story; six half-centuries underline his knack for converting starts into match-shaping contributions. Operating mainly for Sunrisers Hyderabad between 2008 and 2010 before a final cameo with Mumbai Indians in 2012, he brought a blend of classic timing and T20 aggression. With zero wickets across zero bowling innings, Gibbs’ value lay purely in his bat—and the numbers testify to that singular focus.

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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