Kyle Mayers IPL 2023: 379 runs, 144 strike-rate, 38 fours & 22 sixes for Lucknow Super Giants. The West Indian left-hander lit up his debut season with four blistering fifties, the highest a 73 off just 38 balls. Opening the innings 13 times, he faced 263 deliveries and cleared the ropes 22 times while finding the boundary 38 times. Though he rolled his arm over in six games, his real impact came with the bat, giving LSG explosive starts at a strike-rate that hovered in the high 140s.

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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