Rashid Khan IPL Story: 158 wickets in 9 seasons, 7.09 economy, 20.18 strike-rate—numbers that make Gujarat Titans’ Afghan superstar the league’s most feared spinner. Since 2017 with Sunrisers Hyderabad and from 2022 onwards with GT, Rashid has bowled 3 189 balls, conceding only 3 766 runs while claiming 4-wicket hauls four times and 16 three-fors. His economy stays under-par even on belters, and every 20th ball produces a scalp, keeping middle-overs on lockdown. When the situation demands, Rashid swings long too: 585 runs at 160 strike-rate, 41 fours joined by 41 sixes, a lone fifty and a 79 not-out that remind rivals he is no tail-ender. Across 136 bowling innings and 66 batting knocks, the 2025 season marks his fifth straight in Titans colours, confirming GT’s faith in cricket’s premier T20 wrist-spinner.

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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