The final Ranking has seen Rajasthan Royals's Shaun Watson and Yusuf Pathan move into the top 5 with their performances in the semi finals and the finals respectively.
All the icon players with the exception of Sachin Tendulkar figure in the top 25 batsmen list.
Foreign Players
As many as 9 of the top 15 players in the ranking are foreign players, reflecting their importance in the IPL.
Another statistic reflecting the importance of foreign players is the fact that of the 16,809 runs scored in the IPL as many as 7788 runs (46.33%) runs were scored by foreigners. Compare this to the 36.36% of foreign players in a team. (4 out of 11)
Boundaries In the IPL as many as 1702 fours and 622 sixes were hit. Indicating, 40.50% of total runs were scored in the form of 4's and 22.22% runs in the form of 6's.
The most number of sixes were hit by Sanath Jayasuriya, here is a list of the others.
As many as 62.52% of runs were scored in the form of boundaries. Here is a list of players who have scored the maximum percentage of runs in the form of boundaries.Here is a list of the batsmen with the maximum percentage of runs in the form of boundaries.
Mystery Players
Here is a list of players who made it to the team, time and again despite of repeated failures.
Although, the likes of Hafeez and Afridi played a part with the ball, and Rawat is a wicketkeeper their performances still left a lot to be desired.The most surprising was the inclusion of Kaif and Kohli in 16 and 13 matches respectively despite of repeated failures.
