5. Rishabh Pant (Delhi Daredevils)
Rishabh Pant has always had the talent—oodles and bundles of it—but lacked the temperament to back it up. Thanks to his astounding form with the bat for Delhi Daredevils this season, he finally seems to have made amends.
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A powerful striker who can play shots all around the ground, the twenty-year old wicket-keeper/batsman’s evolution as a cricketer was one of the few takeaways for his franchise from an otherwise lacklustre season.
Stats: Matches 14, Runs 684, Average 52.61, S/R 173.60, HS 128*, five 50s, one 100.
Most memorable performance: Coming in to bat with the Daredevils reeling at 21/2 against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Feroz Shah Kotla, the Delhi southpaw produced one of the best knocks in IPL history as he notched 128* off just 64 balls to help his side post a competitive 187/5 at the end of their allotted 20 overs. Eventually, the hundred ended on a losing cause as fifties from both Shikhar Dhawan and Kane Williamson got SRH across the finish line with seven balls to spare.
