Saurav Chauhan IPL 2024: Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s left-handed batting option made his league debut in the 2024 season and immediately showed intent. Across three innings Chauhan hammered 18 runs from just 15 balls, striking at a brisk 120 and keeping the scoreboard moving with one crisp four and a towering six. His highest score of 9 came in a pressure situation against Sunrisers Hyderabad, illustrating his willingness to take on the bowling from ball one. While the sample is small, the strike-rate and boundary-hitting frequency underline the fearless approach RCB sought when they drafted the 24-year-old into the squad. A specialist batsman with no bowling duties so far, Chauhan’s raw power and rapid scoring hint at a potential match-winner in the making for future IPL campaigns.

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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