Rajat Patidar is the Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s middle-order engine, a home-grown hero who has stacked 1,111 IPL runs in just 38 innings at a blazing strike rate of 154. Since his 2021 debut with RCB, the Indore batter has turned 720 balls into a highlight reel of 76 fours and 68 sixes, translating one in every ten deliveries into a boundary. His maiden century—an unbeaten 112—came alongside nine half-centuries, proving he can both anchor and accelerate. Four seasons, one franchise, zero wickets: Patidar is pure batting firepower for RCB fans and fantasy managers tracking the 2025 IPL season.

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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