10 most valuable players from IPL 2016

1) Virat Kohli – 356.5 points

Kohli just could not get Bangalore over the line

Kohli still hasn’t won the IPL. He will surely, one day but he has to wait. He did everything he can. He fell agonisingly short of that Mount Everest of all stats – 1000 runs in one IPL season. He made 973. Probably, if he had not grown overconfident and scored those remaining 27, RCB would have had their hands on the silverware.

That doesn’t take anything away from a man who was in sublime touch right through. Hitting 38 sixes, the most by any batsman this IPL, Kohli’s 973, which gave him the Orange Cup were amassed at an average of 81 and a strike-rate of 152 and included 4 centuries and 7 half-centuries - Bradmanesque.

Despite opening the innings for RCB most of the times, he was not out in 4 of the 16 innings that he played. Besides, he led his troops brilliantly, inspiring his team, down and out at one time, to 5 successive victories, storming to second place finish at the end of the league stage – definitely everyone’s MVP for the season.