Sam Curran IPL story: 59 wickets, 997 runs, one blockbuster all-round package. Since 2019 the left-arm quick has sent down 1 253 balls for 59 scalps at a strike-rate of 21.24, twice every match he bursts through defences. Seven three-wicket bursts underline his middle-over mastery, while a fiery 9.74 economy keeps batters second-guessing. With the willow he has muscled 997 runs from 731 balls at a 136 strike-rate, peppering boundaries with 85 fours and 41 sixes. Six half-centuries top out at a career-best 88, proof he can flip a chase on its head. Six seasons, three franchises, one constant—match-winning impact.

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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