Marco Jansen has turned himself into one of the IPL’s most bankable pace enforcers after five seasons with four different franchises, finally anchoring the Punjab Kings attack in 2025. The 6'8" South African left-armer has already snapped 36 wickets from 35 bowling innings, striking every 20.36 balls—the sort of rapid-fire impact that turns middle overs into minefields. Twice he has run through a line-up to claim three-wicket hauls, and although a maiden five-for still eludes him, an economy of 9.41 on the high-scoring tracks of Hyderabad and Mohali shows he is willing to trade thrift for wickets without flinching. Jansen’s height extracts disconcerting bounce, and he has bowled 733 deliveries for 1,149 runs—numbers that tell the story of a bowler who attacks the stumps rather than just containing. With the bat he remains a handy lower-order striker; 141 runs off 129 balls, including eight fours and six sixes, underline the late-innings muscle he can provide. His highest score of 34 came during a cameo that swung momentum, and a strike rate of 109 keeps scoreboard pressure alive when he walks in. Having started with Mumbai Indians in 2021 and then spending three productive years at Sunrisers Hyderabad, Jansen has now become the spearhead for Punjab Kings. The trajectory is clear—each season he has been entrusted with more overs at the death, and each season the wickets have followed. At 25, the lanky left-arm quick is already on course to become one of the league’s premier pace exponents, and the 2025 campaign could be the stage where he leapfrogs from impact bowler to genuine match-winner.

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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