SK Rasheed lit up his very first IPL campaign in 2025 in the Chennai Super Kings yellow, showing why the franchise backed the young Indian batter. Across five brisk innings the right-hander piled on 71 runs off just 63 balls, striking at an eye-catching 112.00 while peppering boundaries at will—nine fours and two sixes flew off his blade, underlining fearless intent at the top. Although his highest score stands at a quick-fire 27, Rasheed’s knack of finding the gaps early in the powerplay and rotating strike at better than a-run-a-ball gives CSK a dynamic option for the coming seasons. With no wickets to his name, the 2025 season was all about Rasheed the batsman, and his raw promise in yellow suggests bigger knocks are around the corner.

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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