IPL 2025: Mumbai Indians’ six-hitting machine Naman Dhir has turned 217 balls into 392 runs in only two seasons, lighting up the Wankhede with 23 sixes and 36 fours at a blistering strike-rate of 180. The Haryana dasher announced himself in 2024, but the leap in 2025 has been eye-catching: a 62-run demolition job remains his highest score and the lone fifty so far, yet every outing underlines why MI back him as a finisher. Nineteen innings, one fifty, zero centuries—Dhir’s story is less about milestones and more about mayhem in the death overs. While he has rolled his arm over for 52 balls without claiming a wicket, economy of 8.77 shows he can hold a spot even when the bat cools. With MI retaining the right-hander for the third straight year, fantasy managers and fans alike are bracing for more fireworks from Naman Dhir in IPL 2026.

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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