IPL 2016: Individual awards for outstanding players
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The 2016 Indian Premier League season came to a close with SunRisers Hyderabad beating Royal Challengers Bangalore by 8 runs at M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday.
Thus SunRisers became the sixth team to win the cash-rich tournament, which is regarded as the best Twenty20 league in the world.
To recap the season, here are the individual awards.
1. Fair play trophy: SunRisers Hyderabad, received a trophy.
2. Emerging Player of IPL 2016: Mustafizur Rahman (SRH), who toyed with world’s best batsmen with his accurate, virtually unplayable deliveries. His tournament figures: 61 overs, 17 wickets with an average of 6.90. He Received 10 lakh rupees along with a trophy.
3. Fastest fifty: Chris Morris, 17 balls, Received 10 lakh rupees along with a trophy.
4. Match of the Match in final: Ben Cutting (SRH), who scored 39 runs off 15 balls and also took two crucial wickets in the winning cause.
5. Yes Bank maximum of IPL: Virat Kohli, Received 10 lakh rupees along with a trophy.
6. Highest Scorer (Orange Cap): Virat Kohli (RCB) takes the orange cap with an enviable total of 973 runs in 16 innings. He scored four hundreds and seven fifties.
7. Most Valuable Player: Kohli was undoutedly the man of the moment. After a sluggish start, RCB banked on their skipper to make it to the final.
8. Highest Wicket-taker (Purple Cap): Bhuvneshwar Kumar (SRH) took 23 wickets in 17 matches, to beat Yuzvendra Chahal’s 21 in 13 matches.
9. Best catch: Suresh Raina, the Gujarat Lions skipper took a blinder at first slip to get rid of Kolkata Knight Rider’s Suryakumar Yadav in a round-robin match. It will go down as one of the greatest catches the game has even seen.
10. Most Centuries: 4 - Virat Kohli
11. Fifties: 9 - David Warner
12. Vitara Brezza Glam Shot Award: David Warner
13. Mother of all sixes : Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Ben Cutting hit possibly the biggest six of Indian Premier League history with a monstrous 117-metre long six against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the final.
14. Runner-up: Royal Challengers Bangalore, Royal Challengers Bangalore. Prize money - Rs 10 crore.
15. Champion: Sunrisers Hyderabad, Prize money - Rs 15 crore.