R Goyal IPL profile: Mumbai Indians 2023 uncapped all-rounder who sent down four tight overs on debut at the Wankhede. Bowling his full quota of 24 balls, the right-armer conceded only 33 runs, translating to a sharp economy rate of 8.25 runs per over in a league where 9-plus is common. Though the wickets column stayed blank, the control he showed under the IPL pressure cooker underlined why MI snapped him up as a net-bowling prospect turned squad member. With the bat, Goyal is yet to have a hit in the IPL—zero runs, zero balls, zero boundaries—but that simply leaves the story unfinished. At 23, he offers MI a low-cost, high-upside option, having already proved he can land six dot balls an over in front of 30,000 fans. Watch for R Goyal in IPL 2024 as Mumbai Indians look to deepen their Indian pace-bowling bench and give the youngster a second chance to turn those economical overs into breakthrough wickets.

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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