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Hardik Pandya ticked most boxes, very impressed with his captaincy: Mohammad Kaif

Throughout the tournament, Pandya was leading Gujarat from the front, taking the charge with the bat at either number three or four, something which he hardly got to do in his previous franchise Mumbai Indians. Pandya was the anchor Gujarat needed with the bat before unleashing his stroke play in the back end of the innings, amassing 487 in 15 innings at an average of 44.27 and strike-rate of 131.26. With the ball too, he was chipping in occasionally, with his spell of 3/17 in the final at home ground in Ahmedabad proving to be match-winning.

NASSER HUSSAIN: Leach deserves a chance before England turn to Moeen

Any English spinner playing at home has my sympathy. The first two Test pitches this season have not offered them much and that is typical of how it is these days.

Richard Arnold hoping De Jong deal leads his first United transfer window

’Tis that part of the season again. Not post season or pre season, or the festive slog through Boxing Day and beyond. Neither, too, the cool days of spring when the title race hots up. No, it is the season of Manchester United in the summer transfer market when domestic football’s favourite soap opera headlines the silly season and copious players are linked, targeted, lost, found, sold, signed and er … not signed.