Lendl Simmons IPL Story: 1,079 Runs, 100* Storm, 11 Fifties & 44 Sixes in 29 Mumbai Indians Inings West Indies opener Lendl Simmons lit up four IPL seasons for Mumbai Indians between 2014 and 2017, crafting a rapid-fire 1,079 runs off just 852 balls at an eye-catching strike rate of 126. Over 29 innings he reached fifty on eleven separate occasions and once crashed his way to an unbeaten 100, the highest score of his IPL career. Simmons peppered boundaries at will—109 fours and 44 sixes—making him one of the most watchable batsmen in the tournament’s power-packed era. While he rolled his arm over once and claimed a solitary wicket, his lasting impact came with the bat, not the ball.

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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