IPL 2025: Musheer Khan, the 18-year-old all-rounder who turned one over into instant impact for Punjab Kings. Batting once, he faced only three balls and is yet to open his boundary count, but his story unfolds with the ball. In a single four-over burst he removed a key batter, returning figures of 1 for 27 and showing a wicket-taking strike rate of 12.00. That lone scalp underlines why Punjab paid big at the auction: a teenager who can break partnerships at 13.5 runs per over while learning on the job. Expect the left-arm spinner to double his wicket tally soon and push for more match-winning spells at the death.

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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