Lasith Malinga is the IPL’s ultimate yorker king. Across nine seasons—all in Mumbai Indians colours from 2009 to 2019—he scalped 170 wickets in 122 innings, never letting batters breathe at a stunning strike-rate of 16.63 balls per wicket. The sling-armed Sri Lankan terrorised line-ups with 18 three-wicket bursts and a memorable five-for, conceding only 7.15 runs an over despite bowling 2,827 balls of unforgiving yorkers and slower ones at the death. Malinga’s mastery peaked when he nipped out four overs for just 5.1 runs each, a record economy for any 170-wicket bowler in the league’s history. With the bat he was a handy lower-order pinch-hitter, smashing five sixes and six fours in 20 innings for 88 quick runs at a strike-rate of 88. Yet it is with the ball that Malinga became Mumbai’s heartbeat, lifting four IPL titles and finishing as the franchise’s all-time leading wicket-taker—an unbreakable legacy built on 170 scalps, 18 three-fors and one spell for the ages.

Daniel Christian IPL profile: explosive finisher & wily seamer across six seasons Australian all-rounder Daniel Christian brought late-order fireworks and clever medium-pace to the IPL from 2011 through 2021, suiting up for five franchises—Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Delhi Capitals, Rising Pune Supergiant and Sunrisers Hyderabad. In 41 batting innings he cracked 460 runs at a strike-rate of 115, clearing the ropes 19 times and finding the boundary 23 times; his highest score of 39 underlined his reputation as a designated six-hitter in crunch overs. With the ball Christian was even more influential. Operating in 49 bowling innings he snapped 38 wickets at an impressive strike-rate of 23.24 balls per scalp, never conceding more than two wickets in an innings but consistently choking runs at an economy of 8.1. His 883 deliveries produced only 1,192 runs, proving he could bowl the tough overs without bleeding boundaries. After debuting with Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2011-12, Christian returned to RCB in 2013, resurfaced with Rising Pune Supergiant in 2017, wore Delhi Capitals colours in 2018 and closed his IPL journey with RCB again in 2021. That longevity across six seasons highlights franchises’ enduring faith in his dual-value package: 19 maximums with the bat and 38 wickets with the ball make Daniel Christian one of the league’s most bankable utility players of the last decade.

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