MG Bracewell IPL 2023: a six-wicket spin show for Royal Challengers Bengaluru. In his lone IPL campaign so far, the Kiwi all-rounder turned the ball sharply enough to claim 6 wickets from just 66 balls, striking every 11 deliveries while keeping the lid on at 8.64 runs an over. His best burst of 2-16 came in the middle overs, the phase where RCB needed him most. With the bat he wasn’t just a lower-order filler: 58 runs at a 123 strike-rate, six fours and a six, and a cameo high of 26 lit up brief but vital chases. Four innings, two wickets in a game, zero hundreds yet pure impact—Bracewell’s 2023 snapshot is a short reel of match-changing moments that RCB fans still replay.

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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