PVSN Raju IPL 2025: Mumbai Indians' new-ball weapon lights up debut season with 1-wicket burst and 100% strike-rate cameo Making his IPL bow in the 2025 season with Mumbai Indians, PVSN Raju announced himself as an exciting pace-bowling all-rounder who can swing a game in a flash. Sent in to bowl in both of MI’s opening fixtures, the left-armer sent down 24 fiery balls, claiming a vital scalp in each appearance and showing fearless intent despite conceding 53 runs. His economy of 13.25 reflects the high-risk, high-reward role he embraced while attacking the stumps, and a sharp strike-rate of 24 balls per wicket underlines his knack for breaking partnerships. With the bat, Raju walked out in the only innings he played and nonchalantly tucked his first legal delivery for a single, finishing unbeaten on 1 off 1 at a perfect 100 strike-rate. While the sample size is small, the immediate impact with both disciplines has already set social media buzzing: one wicket, one run, one statement that MI have uncovered a genuine 360-degree match-winner for the seasons ahead.

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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