With a chaotic looking point table that indicates that only one team remained consistent with their performance - that is on losing side - is the Kolkata Knight Riders, it will be unfair to give away your vote to any particular team as a show stealer. But show stealers are there all right, not the team, but the individuals. Some stole the show with sheer excellence and some hogged the lime light for all reasons wrong. Had there been an award ceremony in true Mumbai filmy style, someone would pick up the award for rendering spectacular performance and someone for acting the perfect villain. Cricket360 conjure up the main categories and gives away its vote to the clear favorite in each category.

Every movie award ceremony begins with the best film, but IPL is no movie, and so we will start with the category of villain.  The majority would give away his votes to Buchanan for spoiling the KKR broth by importing too many cooks and sparking off a cold war in KKR camp by sidelining Sourav, who has the experience of building up of a team from the scratch.

But in cricket360’s opinion, the man who backed Buchanan to crash the dream of millions of Kolkata fans make  the more perfect villain. So our best villain award is for King Khan.

Yet another grossly down-rated category relates to the surprise factor of the year. And this year, Mandira Bedi added to the shocker. With cropped hair and a toned body, Mandira is a revelation for IPL Season 2. And you must have noticed that she has even learnt to make smarter cricket talks. Our vote is with the sportier Mandira.

As it comes to picking up the most promising greenhorn, quite a few names vie for your attention including the young Ravindra Jadeja, Piyush Chawla and even Yousuf Abdulla. But nothing compares to the excellence showcased by Shadab Jakati. With the kind of bowling magic, it is not far when Jakati becomes the tramp card for Chennai team. So if any award is to be given to the best new comer, our vote is with Jakati.

No film industry in the world would give award to a film that bombed at box office, but our vote for the biggest flop of IPL Season 2 definitely goes to Brandon McCullum, the blue eyed boy of Buchanan, who failed to inspire his team into winning a single match in the league.

And lastly coming to the most important category and that is marked for the best actor. However, it came out to be the easiest selection for us; who else other than Yusuf Pathan can dare contend for this award. With the maximum number of man of the match awards and his all round cricketing abilities, he is easily the strongest contender for the man of the tournament award too.

However, we would like to add yet another category and is the award for the best professional of the tournament. Yes you guessed it right - it must be Janine Kallis, the little sister of all rounder Jack Kallis, the cheerleader who decided to dance on as his brother was bundled up to the pavilion, in a rare show of neat professionalism.

Last but not least: it will be grossly unjustified not to include them who bring the much needed comic relief to an emotional saga such as Indian Premier League tournament. And so our vote for the best comical performance goes straight to the genus Aussie for inventing one after another funny cricket doctrines.

No marks for guessing whom we mean!!!

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