IPL's 2009 Best Team

With another enthralling IPL season over and to have finished in the way with the two bottom teams in the first IPL season contested the final in Johannesburg continued the unpredictability of this season that any team can win or loss on any given day.

The 59 matches that have been played in South Africa was exciting, mouthwatering cricket that you could not take your eye off. The performances of individuals and the teams have taken cricket and particularly Twenty20 to another level and the benchmark has been set for future IPL and Twenty20 tournaments.

After any tournament the best team is selected and going by stats, performances and getting the best balance of four foreigners in the first eleven.

Matthew Hayden – Destructive at the top of the order and gave Chennai blistering starts

Adam Gilchrist (c & wk) – The perfect tournament took Deccan from bottom to champions, his captaincy was attacking and tactically aware, his batting was destructive

Suresh Raina – Continued his good form in the IPL with his powerful batting

AB De Villers – Had an excellent tournament and showed his maturity and class, played variety of innings that Delhi required

Tilakaratne Dilshan – After a poor first season Dilshan was the mainstay of Delhi’s batting this season

Rohit Sharma – Batting, bowling and fielding was excellent and took Deccan to number of vital wins

Yusuf Pathan – His batting was excellent as he came in with Rajasthan in a precarious position a number of times, and he got important wickets

Anil Kumble – An excellent tournament, to have turnaround Bangalore season with his captaincy was inspirational and he ended up with 21 wickets the second highest

RP Singh – The best bowler this season and was vital in Deccan’s win this season, he continued to get vital wickets in all matches and was always the go to bowler by Gilchrist

Ashish Nehra – Was reborn in this tournament and the spearhead for Delhi

Pradeep Sangwan – The find of the tournament and he responded to the captains call when the team needed he provided wickets

Can’t wait for IPL 2010