Kumar Kartikeya Singh has quietly turned into one of IPL 2025’s most economical impact spinners. Across 16 bowling innings the left-arm orthodox bowler has snapped 12 wickets—never going wicket-less in a spell—while conceding only 407 runs off 282 balls. That translates to a razor-sharp strike-rate of 23.50 balls per scalp and an economy of 8.66, rare figures for a middle-overs operator on high-scoring Indian tracks. His career-best 2 for 18 arrived in Jaipur while donning Rajasthan Royals colours, the franchise that secured his services after two productive seasons with Mumbai Indians. Batting remains a cameo act: 12 runs from 17 balls, one boundary, highest score 6. Yet every time skipper Sanju Samson throws him the ball, Kartikeya delivers control and breakthroughs, making him an underrated asset in RR’s spin armoury for the 2025 IPL season.

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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