#4 Chris Gayle

Chris Gayle, also proclaimed as Universal Boss has clearly been the best cricketer to have played the shortest format of the game. He had been one of the backbones of RCB's batting department till the last season.
Gayle's dismal performance in 2017 saw him out of Bangalore' set-up. His age-factor played a huge role in Bangalore not retaining him. Despite this, he was acquired by KXIP for 2 crores during the third round of action.
In this year's IPL, he scored 368 runs at an average of 40.88 and strike rate of 146.03. Looking at Gayle's laudable stats, it probably was a hard blow for Royal Challengers as they had abstained him at this year's auction.
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