Nitish Rana IPL profile: 2853 runs at 136 strike-rate, 20 fifties, 261 fours, 141 sixes, highest 87, 10 seasons, now with Rajasthan Royals Left-handed dynamo Nitish Rana has quietly built one of the IPL’s most consistent batting résumés, stacking 2,853 runs from just 2,086 balls faced—a boundary every eight balls thanks to 261 fours and 141 sixes. Across 112 innings he has reached fifty on 20 occasions, his 87 against Delhi at Sharjah standing as his personal best. After eight productive years with Kolkata Knight Riders, Rana enters the 2025 season wearing Rajasthan Royals colours, bringing a proven power game and a handy off-spin option that has already delivered 10 wickets in 26 cameo bowling innings.

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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