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.

Quinton de Kock IPL career snapshot: 3309 runs, 134 sixes, 24 fifties and 2 centuries. The left-handed opener has lit up 12 IPL seasons since 2013, smashing 325 boundaries at a blazing strike rate of 134. His highest score of 140* shows the ceiling when he gets going. After stints with Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Capitals, RCB and Mumbai Indians, he found rhythm at Lucknow Super Giants where he spent three productive years (2022-24). Ahead of IPL 2025, Kolkata Knight Riders secured his services, banking on his experience of 115 innings at the top. De Kock’s power game is built on clean hitting—134 sixes out of 2469 balls faced—and the ability to convert starts into match-defining knocks, evidenced by 24 half-centuries and two hundreds. His journey from a 2013 debutant with SRH to a seasoned match-winner now wearing KKR purple and gold mirrors his evolution into one of the league’s most consistent run machines.

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