Josh Hazlewood IPL 2025: 57 wickets in 39 innings, best 4 for, eight 3-wicket bursts, economy 8.28 Australian pace spearhead Josh Hazlewood has turned every IPL season since 2020 into a master-class of new-ball precision and death-over nerve. Across five campaigns—two with Chennai Super Kings (2020-21) and the last three with Royal Challengers Bengaluru—Hazlewood has sent down 867 balls and walked away with 57 wickets, a strike-rate of 15.21 that underlines his knack for breaking partnerships at will. Eight times he has finished an innings with three or more scalps, and his season-best 4-wicket haul stands as proof of his ability to run through line-ups on helpful or flat decks alike. Even while bowling mostly at the toughest overs—powerplay and the back-end—he has kept his economy at 8.28, forcing batters to take the risk against the rest. With the 2025 season confirming his spot as RCB’s go-to enforcer, Hazlewood’s tally of 1,196 runs conceded shows the price he extracts for every inch conceded.

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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