Wiaan Mulder IPL 2025: Sunrisers Hyderabad’s all-round project gets off to a quiet start South African all-rounder Wiaan Mulder made his long-awaited IPL debut in the 2025 season with Sunrisers Hyderabad, bringing with him a reputation forged in domestic leagues and international white-ball cricket. In his only outing so far, the right-hander walked in during the closing overs and managed 9 runs off 11 balls, stroking one crisp four before being dismissed. While the strike-rate of 81 suggests a watchful knock, the sample size remains too small to read much into his batting impact at this level. With the ball, Mulder fared little better on debut. Handed the new ball for a solitary over, he leaked 16 runs off his six deliveries, failing to pick up a wicket. His economy of 16.00 is an outlier compared to his domestic economy of around 7.50, and with just six balls to judge him on, the numbers hint more at early-tournament rust than any deeper flaw. Notably, he has yet to register a three-wicket or five-wicket haul in the IPL. Across formats, Mulder’s calling card has been his balance between seam-up overs in the power-play and solid lower-order batting. Sunrisers Hyderabad invested in that versatility for the 2025 campaign, hoping he can evolve into a dependable sixth-bowling option and a finisher who can clear the ropes. One match in, the ledger reads 9 runs and 0 wickets—a blank canvas rather than a verdict. With nine league-stage fixtures left, expect the 26-year-old to get more cracks at both disciplines as the franchise juggles its overseas combinations.

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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