Shardul Thakur IPL 2025: 107 wickets in 102 innings, economy 9.4, best 4-29; handy 325 runs at 139 strike-rate, 68* top score. After ten seasons, five franchises, and 2070 balls of high-pressure death bowling, the Lucknow Super Giants recruit has grown into the league’s quintessential “three-phase” asset. With 107 wickets—eight three-fers, no five-fers—he attacks in bursts, striking every 19.35 balls while conceding less than ten an over. Batting lower down, Thakur has muscled 30 fours and 13 sixes, including a 68* that sealed a famous chase. From 2015 Punjab Kings debutant to 2025 LSG finisher, Shardul’s numbers tell a story of clutch performances across Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and now Lucknow—an all-round match-winner built for the IPL’s biggest stages.

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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