V Suryavanshi exploded onto the 2025 IPL stage with Rajasthan Royals in a way that few rookies ever do. In only seven innings, the 21-year-old left-hander amassed 252 runs off just 122 balls—an eye-watering strike rate of 206—turning every legal delivery into a potential boundary. Eighteen fours and twenty-four sixes mean 42 of his 122 scoring shots crossed the rope, a boundary frequency that shattered calculators and bowlers’ morale alike. The crescendo came in a whirlwind 101, the highest score of his debut campaign, sealing back-to-back match-defining tons after an earlier 50-plus blitzkrieg. With one fifty and one hundred already to his name, Suryavanshi isn’t just knocking on the door of stardom—he’s kicked it wide open.

Ajinkya Rahane IPL journey spans 17 seasons, 183 innings and a mountain of 5,032 runs that have come off 4,025 balls at a brisk strike-rate of 125. The Mumbai-born right-hander has punished bowlers for 514 fours and 123 sixes, crossing fifty 33 times and reaching three figures on two memorable occasions, the highest being an unbeaten 105. After stints with Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, Rising Pune Supergiant, Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings, he is back with Kolkata Knight Riders for IPL 2025. While Rahane has rolled his arm over only once in the league, picking up a solitary wicket in a six-ball cameo that cost five runs, he remains celebrated as one of the league’s most technically sound and consistent top-order batsmen.

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