K H Pandya has turned into one of the most bankable two-way match-winners in IPL history, and the 2025 season with Royal Challengers Bengaluru is only extending that reputation. Across 114 innings with the bat he has piled on 1,756 runs at a strike-rate of 132, peppering boundaries with 153 fours and 65 towering sixes; his fearless 86 against Sunrisers remains the highest score of his career. While he has not yet reached three figures, those two half-centuries have often arrived when RCB needed a late surge. With ball in hand Pandya is equally influential. In 132 bowling innings he has snapped 93 wickets, including nine three-wicket bursts and a best of 4/21, all while keeping the economy under 7.5. Whether opening the attack or nailing yorkers at the death, his 25.78 strike-rate makes him a captain’s go-to in crunch overs. Having started with Mumbai Indians in 2016 and now donning the RCB red after three productive seasons at Lucknow Super Giants, Pandya’s decade-long journey shows a player who keeps adding new gears to his game—fearless hitter, reliable wicket-taker, and ultimate team-first asset.

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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