V Viyaskanth IPL 2024: 1 wicket, 7 runs, Sunrisers Hyderabad debut sparks all-round buzz. The 2024 IPL season saw Sri Lankan leg-spinner V Viyaskanth arrive at Sunrisers Hyderabad with a promise of variety. In three brisk bowling innings—60 balls, 86 runs conceded—he picked up a solitary scalp at a snappy 60.00 strike-rate, showing flashes of the mystery that made scouts take notice. While the economy hovered at 8.6, the threat of his wrong’un kept right-handers honest. With the bat, Viyaskanth needed only five deliveries to stamp his mark. His lone innings produced an unbeaten 7, striking at 140 and announcing that he can wield the long handle when the top order wobbles. No fours, no sixes, just clean hitting straight down the ground—exactly the late-order cameo SRH crave. Sunrisers Hyderabad fans will remember 2024 as the year the 25-year-old from Jaffna debuted, grabbed a breakthrough wicket and left the opposition a 7-run reminder that his story in the IPL has only just begun.

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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