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.

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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