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.

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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