Navdeep Saini IPL profile: 23 wickets in 32 innings, fastest ball 150 kmph+, economy 8.88, best 3/34 Since his debut in IPL 2019, Navdeep Saini has emerged as one of the most explosive Indian pace bowlers, lighting up the league with raw pace and wicket-taking bursts. Over five seasons—three with Royal Challengers Bengaluru and the last two with Rajasthan Royals—the 31-year-old right-arm quick has sent down 658 balls, claiming 23 wickets at a strike rate of 28.61. His standout spell came in 2020 when he rattled Kolkata Knight Riders with career-best figures of 3 for 34, the only three-wicket haul of his IPL journey. While his economy of 8.88 shows he has been targeted, Saini’s ability to hit the deck hard has kept batters wary; 13 of his 23 scalps have come via pace and bounce on Indian decks. Though primarily known for his bowling firepower, Saini has chipped in with the bat when needed. Across seven brief innings he has scored 33 runs, including three boundaries, and held his nerve to remain unbeaten on 12—his highest IPL score—during a tense chase for RCB in 2020. After moving to Rajasthan Royals in 2022, Saini has become a key cog in their middle-overs assault, tying down opponents and hunting breakthroughs in the spin-friendly conditions of Jaipur. With 23 wickets already to his name and the ability to breach 150 kmph, the Haryana speedster is poised for an even bigger impact in IPL 2024.

Sunil Narine IPL profile: 14 seasons, 192 wickets, 1780 runs, one-man match engine Sunil Narine has become the definitive two-phase weapon in IPL history, piling up 192 wickets for Kolkata Knight Riders while striking at 22.63 balls per scalp and keeping the economy to a miserly 6.8. The off-spinner has tortured batters with 16 three-wicket bursts and one five-wicket demolition, landing telling blows in 187 bowling innings since 2012. Yet Narine’s story is not just about the ball. Promoted up the order, he has smashed 1780 runs at a jaw-dropping strike rate of 166, peppering 189 fours and 116 sixes. His lone IPL hundred—an unbeaten 109—arrived off just 56 balls, proving he can flip a chase in the space of an over. Seven fifties and a highest score of 109 add layers to a batting record that few specialist bowlers can rival. From season one in 2012 to the 2025 campaign, Narine has worn only one jersey: KKR purple and gold. That loyalty has delivered both numbers and narrative—4345 balls of mystery spin, 1069 balls of audacious hitting, and countless moments when Eden Gardens rose to its feet for the ultimate IPL double threat.

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