Emerging player of the season is an award presented to the best young player of the tournament, who is quite new and performed well throughout the edition. At the start of IPL 2008, the award was named as Best U-19, then in 2009 it changed to Best U-23. Later in 2011, it was again changed to Rising Star of The Year, followed by Best Young Player of the Season in 2013 but finally in 2014, it was given a stable name Emerging Player of the edition. Let’s have a look at all the 11 players who have won this special award in IPL history.
Since the first edition of IPL had Under-19 Success Player award, it was won by Shreevats Goswami, who represented Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2008 season.
He scored only 82 runs from 3 innings, including a fifty and a Man of the Match award.
Shreevats Goswami
With 362 runs at 27.84 and 11 wickets from 16 matches in IPL 2009, Rohit Sharma won the Best under-23 player award.
Moreover, Rohit Sharma’s side Deccan Chargers won the IPL in that edition.
Rohit Sharma
Under Sachin Tendulkar guidance, Jharkhand’s Saurabh Tiwary emerged with his battting. He smashed 419 runs at 29.92, including 3 fifties from 16 matches of the tournament and won the Best under-23 player award.
However, Tiwary’s side Mumbai Indians ended up as the the season as runners-up.
Saurabh Tiwary
The left-arm spinner proved to be a dark horse for Kolkata Knight Riders in 2011 edition of IPL. With 16 wickets from 15 games, Iqbal Abdulla won the Rising Star of the Year.
Interestingly, it was the first season in which KKR reached the top-four spot in the tally.
Iqbal Abdulla
Playing for Kings XI Punjab, Mandeep Singh impressed everyone with his batting by hammering 432 runs from 16 matches in IPL 2012. He scored those runs at 27 with the strike rate of 126.31, including 2 fifties and won the Rising Star of the Year award.
Mandeep Singh
Young Sanju Samson did a brilliant job with both bat and gloves for Rajasthan Royals in 2013 edition of the tournament. From 11 matches, Sanju scored 206 and inflicted 6 dismissals behind the stumps, which made him win the Best Young Player of the Season award.
Sanju Samson
The left-arm spinner played an unsung role in the emergence of Kings XI Punjab in 2014 edition. After taking 17 wickets from 17 games at 23.82, Axar was awarded with Emerging Player of the Year.
Moreover, this was the first edition when Kings XI Punjab reached the final of an IPL, though they lost it to Kolkata Knight Riders.
Axar Patel
This Mumbai-lad made his name in IPL by representing Delhi Daredevils in 2015 edition. Throughout the tournament, Iyer played an important role for the team by scoring 439 runs from 14 games.
Following his impressive run, Iyer was adjudged with Emerging Player of the Year award.
Shreyas Iyer
Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman was the first foreign player to win this award. The left-arm pacer did a tremendous job for Sunrisers Hyderabad in lifting their maiden title.
From 16 games, Mustafizur took 17 wickets at 24.76 and won the Emerging Player of the Year award.
Mustafizur Rahman
After making name in domestic circuit for Kerala, pacer Basil Thampi got to represent Gujarat Lions in 2017 edition.
From 12 games, Thampi inflicted 11 wickets and was impressive with his pace bowling, which made him earn the Emerging Player of the Year award.
Basil Thampi
After being retained by Delhi Daredevils, Rishabh Pant proved his worth by slamming 684 runs — 2nd most in the tournament.
Despite his valiant effort, his team ended at the bottom. Pant also scored a century and 5 fifties throughout the 2018 season.
Rishabh Pant