Zeeshan Ansari announced his IPL arrival in 2025 with Sunrisers Hyderabad, turning heads as a wicket-taking spinner in a season dominated by batsmen. Across ten high-pressure bowling innings, the 23-year-old claimed six crucial scalps, including a memorable three-wicket burst that derailed a strong batting line-up. Operating at an economy nudging 9.84 on the batting-friendly tracks, he bowled 203 balls and conceded 333 runs while maintaining a sharp strike rate of 33.83. His solitary three-wicket haul underlined his ability to break partnerships at vital junctures—an attribute that quickly endeared him to the SRH think-tank. With no five-wicket haul yet, Ansari’s hunger for more match-defining spells is evident, and fantasy managers have already started tagging him as a differential pick for the 2026 season.

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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