Ravi Ashwin IPL career summary: 187 wickets in 217 innings, 16-season legacy with Chennai Super Kings return in 2025 Ravi Ashwin, the veteran Indian off-spinner, has been a cornerstone of IPL bowling attacks since 2009, returning to Chennai Super Kings for the 2025 campaign. Across 16 seasons and 217 bowling innings, Ashwin has claimed 187 wickets, the most by any spinner in the tournament’s history. His economy rate of 7.2 runs per over remains stingy even in power-play heavy T20 cricket, while his strike rate of 25.19 balls per wicket underlines his ability to break partnerships at key moments. Ashwin’s mastery is reflected in 9 three-wicket hauls and a best of 4 for 34. Operating 4,710 balls and conceding 5,652 runs, he has consistently tied down batters while searching for breakthroughs. Despite a primary bowling role, Ashwin has contributed 833 runs at a strike rate of 118, including one fifty and 29 sixes—often swinging momentum with cameos down the order. Wearing the yellow of Chennai Super Kings in eight of his 16 seasons, Ashwin rejoined the franchise in 2025 after stints with Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings, adding continuity to a career already rich in experience and silverware.

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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