Rasikh Salam IPL 2025: 10 wickets in 13 innings, best 3-29, two three-fors for Royal Challengers Bengaluru Fast-rising Jammu & Kashmir seamer Rasikh Salam has quietly become one of IPL 2025’s most reliable death-over operators. Across four seasons with four different franchises—Mumbai Indians (2019), Kolkata Knight Riders (2022), Delhi Capitals (2024) and now Royal Challengers Bengaluru—Salam has bowled 231 balls, conceded 409 runs and struck ten times, including two three-wicket hauls. His strike-rate of 23.1 balls per wicket underlines his habit of breaking partnerships, while an economy of 10.62 shows he is trusted to bowl the tough overs. With the bat, the 23-year-old has chipped in 40 runs from 40 balls, hitting five boundaries without clearing the rope; his highest in six innings is 10*. While primarily a bowler, those cameos have helped RCB stretch totals past 200. From uncapped rookie to key cog in Faf du Plessis’ plans, Rasikh Salam’s upward curve makes him one to watch in the IPL 2025 playoffs and beyond.

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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