Kwena Maphaka IPL profile: South Africa’s teenage left-arm quick has already turned heads in two short seasons, splitting his campaigns between Mumbai Indians in 2024 and Rajasthan Royals in 2025. With only four bowling innings on record, the 19-year-old has struck twice, showing a wicket every 33 balls and an eye-catching top haul of 1-31. While his economy of 13 runs per over is a work in progress, the raw wicket-taking knack is unmistakable. Maphaka has been sparingly used, sending down 66 balls and conceding 143 runs, yet the promise lies in those two scalps and the electric energy he brings to the powerplay. In the solitary time he was asked to bat, he wasted no time—smashing 2 fours in 2 balls to race to 8* at a jaw-dropping strike-rate of 400. No fifties, no hundreds, but the statement was clear: when the helmet goes on, the intent follows. Across two seasons, Maphaka’s numbers remain modest, yet every digit hints at a fast-tracked future—two IPL franchises in two years, two wickets, two boundaries, and a strike-rate story waiting to explode.

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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