IPL Emerging Players Winners List from 2008 to 2024 (Updated List)

The Indian Premier League is seeing huge growth in the list of emerging talent in the world of cricket, as it is moving forward season after season. The “Emerging Player of the Year” award is allocated to the young budding cricketers, who excel throughout the tournament. However, there are certain criteria to be followed when looking for the same.

 Criteria for “Emerging Player of the Year” award:

1. The player should have been born after April 01, 1996.

2. The player in contention should not have played more than 25 IPL matches at the start of an IPL season.

3. The player should not have played more than 20 ODIs and 5 Test matches.

4. And finally, the player in contention should not have won the award previously.

 The young budding players get to compete with and against the best talents around the globe, which gives them a chance to standardize their game better. IPL has seen immense growth in young cricketers all around the world, performing astonishingly and developing a fan base throughout the years.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Shreevats Goswami became the first ever player to bag title of “Emerging Player of the Year” in the maiden year of this tournament i.e. 2008, while Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Nitish Kumar Reddy was the latest addition to this list in the 2024 season. 

Some of the notable players who left an indelible mark in the world of cricket after receiving this title are Rohit Sharma (2008), Sanju Samson (2013), Axar Patel (2014), Shreyas Iyer (2015), Mustafizur Rahman (2016), Rishabh Pant (2018), Shubman Gill (2019), Ruturaj Gaikwad (2021) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (2023).

There have been several players who went on to become cricketing sensations in their international careers, while some of them failed to make a mark later on in their lives. They fail to replicate their maiden performances later. Cricketers like Saurabh Tiwary (2010), and Iqbal Abdullah (2011) failed to deliver and went into oblivion after winning the “Emerging Player of the Year” award.

IPL Emerging Players Winners from 2008 to 2024 (Updated List)

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