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.

Virat Kohli is the undisputed batting king of the Indian Premier League, a Royal Challengers Bengaluru lifer who has turned loyalty into legend across 18 electrifying seasons from 2008 to 2025. With 8,661 runs off 6,519 balls, Kohli is the league’s highest-ever run-getter, firing at a strike rate of 132 and painting every corner of every ground with 771 fours and 291 towering sixes. His 63 half-centuries and 8 hundreds—topped by a blistering 113*—tell the story of a man who converts starts into statements, walking in 259 innings and delivering a match-defining fifty or hundred in roughly one out of every four trips to the crease. While he has rolled his arm over occasionally, claiming four wickets from 26 bowling innings, it is with the bat that Kohli has authored the IPL’s most enduring chronicle, forever clad in the red and gold of RCB.

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