Sai Sudharsan of Gujarat Titans on Tuesday was named the Emerging Player of the Year for the Indian Premier League 2025 season.
The GT batter notched up 759 runs in 15 innings, which also won him the Orange Cap for the most runs in the season. He scored one century and six half-centuries during the season.
Sudharsan also became the youngest player to win the Orange Cap at 23 years and 231 days.
List of Emerging Player Award winners
- 2008: Shreevats Goswami (RCB)
- 2009: Rohit Sharma (DC)
- 2010: Saurabh Tiwary (MI)
- 2011: Iqbal Abdulla (KKR)
- 2012: Mandeep Singh (KXIP)
- 2013: Sanju Samson (RR)
- 2014: Axar Patel (KXIP)
- 2015: Shreyas Iyer (DD)
- 2016: Mustazifur Rahman (SRH)
- 2017: Basil Thampi (GL)
- 2018: Rishabh Pant (DC)
- 2019: Shubman Gill (KKR)
- 2020: Devdutt Padikkal (RCB)
- 2021: Ruturaj Gaikwad (CSK)
- 2022: Umran Malik (SRH)
- 2023: Yashasvi Jaiswal (RR)
- 2024: Nitish Kumar Reddy (SRH)