Since his IPL debut in 2017, left-arm yorker specialist Thangarasu Natarajan has owned the death overs, collecting 68 wickets in 63 bowling innings and leaving a trail of shattered stumps across six campaigns. Operating at a strike-rate of 20.03 balls per wicket, the Tamil Nadu speedster has conceded just 2,022 runs off 1,362 deliveries, translating to an economy of 8.91 despite bowling the toughest overs. Four times he has ripped through line-ups to claim three-wicket hauls, with a career-best 4-fer marking his ceiling so far. After five seasons with Sunrisers Hyderabad, Natarajan now brings his toe-crushing yorkers to Delhi Capitals for IPL 2025, ready to add fresh chapters to his wicket-packed story.

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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