Shivam Dube IPL 2025: CSK’s left-handed six-hitting machine has piled up 1 859 runs from 1 294 balls at a strike rate of 143 across 75 innings. In seven IPL campaigns he has cleared the ropes 122 times—more than one six every ten balls—and crashed 108 boundaries on his way to ten half-centuries. His unbeaten 95 remains the personal best, proof that he saves his most explosive work for the death overs. Bowling only when the situation demands, he has chipped in with 5 wickets from 124 balls, but Dube’s real story is written with the bat: 143 strike rate, 122 sixes and a permanent spot in the Chennai Super Kings middle order since 2022.

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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