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Although the full name of the IPL is the Indian Premier League, but the Player of the Tournament Award was won by some foreign player 13 times in the 18 season. Foreign players like Chris Gayle, Sunil Naren, AB de Villiers, Rashid Khan and Lasith Malinga made this league even more illuminated, shiny and famous.
Foreign players dominated this time too. Because foreign players took out 33% runs and 36% wickets in the league. While their number was one third of the Indian players. Foreigners also dominate in the auction. 639.15 crore rupees were spent in the mega auction, out of which 40% amount i.e. about 256 crore rupees went to the accounts of 62 foreign players. While 120 Indians received the remaining 60% amount.
Foreign players perform in IPL 2025 …
Part-1: Who topped the players
3 foreigners scored 500+ runs, also scored 2 out of 9 centuries In the 18th season of IPL, 9 players scored a century. Of these, 7 players from India and 2 were from abroad. 11 players scored 500+ runs. These included 8 Indians and 3 foreigners. The top-5 foreign run scorer also included 2 South African, Heinrich Klason and Adan Markram. However, both could not score 500 runs. Australia’s Mitchell Marsh was the top scorer with the help of 1 century.
- Australia’s Mitchell Marsh hit the maximum 56 fours. Marsh also had the highest number of fifty in his name, as well as the first foreigner to score a century in the season.
- Nicholas Puran of West Indies hit 40 sixes among all the players. His strike rate was also the highest among foreigners who scored 500+ runs.
- South Africa’s Heinrich Klasson scored a century in just 37 balls for his team in the last match. This tournament was the fourth fastest century in history.
Noor stayed 1 wicket away from purple cap Afghanistan’s Chinaman spinner Noor Ahmed took 24 wickets in 14 matches of league stage. His team could not make a place in the Chennai Super Kings Playoffs, if he had taken more wickets, he would have become a purple cap holder. In the tournament, 18 players took 15 plus wickets, out of which 13 players from India and 5 were from abroad. The top-5 wicket was 1–1 player in Australia, New Zealand and Afghanistan in Taker.
- Trent Bolt of New Zealand bowled the highest 127 dot balls among foreigners. Josh Hazlewood of Australia took 22 wickets in just 12 matches.
Part-2: Which country’s players shone more
31% run of South African Batters, 11 fifty Foreign batter from 7 countries scored 33% of the 18th season. The highest number of 31% of these were the names of South African batters. Foreigners also had 49 fifty and 2 centuries. Foreigners scored less centuries compared to Indian players, but fifty scored about one third.
- South Africa: Scored 2532 runs at a strike rate of 148.59. These included a century and 14 half -centuries. He hit 217 fours and 448 sixes. Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Heinrich Klasson scored 487 and LSG’s Aden Markram scored 445 runs.
- Australia: Scored 1845 runs at a strike rate of 159.18. These included 1 century and 11 fifty. Mitchell Marsh from Lucknow scored 627 runs, he scored the only century. 6 out of 11 fifty were also named after him.
- England: Scored 1635 runs at a strike rate of 154.97. There were 13 fifty among them. Jose Butler 538 from Gujarat Titans and 403 runs from Royal Challengers Bangalore scored on top-2. Will Jacks, Sam Karan also batting at a fast strike rate.
- West Indies: 7 batters scored 1542 runs at a strike rate of 173.06. These included 8 fifty, 131 fours and 109 sixes. Nicholas Puran was the top scorer for 524 runs. He also put the maximum 40 sixes.
- New Zealand: 7 Kiwi Batters could only score 393 runs at a strike rate of 128.85. Only 3 fifty came from the team. Among them, Rachin Ravindra of Chennai Super Kings was the top scorer by scoring 191 runs. The remaining 6 batters were able to score only 202 runs.
- Afghanistan: 6 batters scored 202 runs at a strike rate of 128.66. Rahmanullah Gurbaz was the top scorer by scoring 74 runs. However, he got a chance to play only 5 matches from Kolkata.
- Sri Lanka: 4 batters scored 121 runs at a strike rate of just 96.8. Among them, Kamindu Mendis topped 92 runs. The rest of the batter could not do anything special.
Australian bowlers 63 wickets, 3 bowlers in top-2 Australian dominated the bowling of foreign players. The bowlers here took the most 63 wickets. Which is 21% of the 296 wickets taken by overseas bowlers. Foreign bowlers took 4 or more wickets in the innings 5 times. Out of these, 2 times this feat was done by Australian. The economy of foreign bowlers has been 9.47 in the season.
- Australia : Josh Hazlewood has taken 22 wickets. He is the top wicket Tackers of RCB. Pat Cummins, playing from Hyderabad, took 16 wickets for 16 and Mitchell Starc for Delhi Capitals. A total of 9 bowlers participated. Australians bowled 190.1 overs and spent runs from 9.72 economy. Two bowlers have taken 4 wickets in the innings. This includes 5 wickets in Mitchell Starc’s innings, which he shocked against Hyderabad.
- Sri Lanka: In the last season, 7 Sri Lankan bowlers took wickets. The four bowlers here have taken more than 10 wickets. The Sri Lankan bowlers have a total of 55 wickets. The bowlers here bowled with an economy of 9.60. Ishaan Malinga and Mathish Pathirana took 13–13 wickets. Vanindu Hasranga and Month Trida got 11–11 wickets.
- New Zealand: 5 Kiwi bowlers could take 48 wickets this season. New Zealand is third in the list of the highest wicket -taking countries in the 18th season. The bowlers here bowled with an economy of 9.12. Trent Bolt has taken the most 22 wickets from Mumbai Indians. These include 4 wickets in the innings. Mitchell Santner got 6 wickets.
- Afghanistan: Noor Ahmed is the highest wicket -taking foreign bowler. He has taken 24 wickets in 4 matches. He included four wickets in the innings twice. Apart from Noor, Rashid Khan took 9, Ajmatullah Umarzai took 8 wickets. Afghan bowlers bowled 134 overs and took 42 wickets. Afghanistan is at number four in the list of the highest wicket -taking countries this season.
- South Africa: 8 bowlers took 31 wickets. South Africa stood at number 5 in the list of the highest wicket -taking countries last season. No bowler here could take 4 wickets in the innings. Marco Jesan bowled effectively for runner -up Punjab Kings. He took 16 wickets. Bowlers like Rabada, Enrique Norte, Lungi Angidi could not perform special performances.
- England: Only 6 bowlers managed to take wickets. Jofra Archer is the highest 11 wicket -taking English bowler. He is included in Rajasthan’s Top-2 wicket Tackers. Moin Ali and Lium Livingston could take 6-6 wickets. English bowlers have taken 27 wickets in IPL 2025. The bowlers here took 100 overs from an economy of 9.5.
- West Indies: The most wicket -taking countries are ranked 7th in the list of countries. The bowlers here have been able to take only 26 wickets. 3 bowlers bowled 77.1 overs with an economy of 9.33. Sunil Naren took 12 wickets. Andre Russell got 8 wickets and Sherfen Rutherford got 6 wickets. Rutherford won RCB by taking the wicket of Shreyas Iyer in the final.
- Bangladesh: Only a Bangladeshi bowler managed to take wickets in IPL-2025. The Bangladesh season stood at the lower position in the list of the most wicket -taking countries. Mustafizur Rahman, playing for Delhi, took 4 wickets. He bowled with 4 of the Economy of 4. He could play only 3 matches in the season.
Mumbai placed 13 foreign players
62 foreign players were purchased in the IPL mega auction, but 89 players were added to the teams after the tournament was over. Because 17 players could not play the entire match due to injury and busy schedule. Other players got a chance in his place. Among the 10 teams, Mumbai Indians included the highest 13 and Lucknow Supergiants included the lowest 7 players in the squad.
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