IPL 2016: Top 10 Batsmen of Week 2 of Indian Premier League
The second week of the Indian Premier League produced several incredible games and plenty of audacious feats of hitting.
Australia's David Warner certainly enjoyed himself, scoring 177 runs for his Sunrisers Hyderabad side and making this hallowed list twice.
But who else put their name in lights?
Here, ranked loosely in ascending order of the quality of their innings, are the top 10 batsmen of the IPL's second week, which commenced on 16 April.
10. Glenn Maxwell
1 of 10
Performance: 32 not out off 14 balls
After recording scores of zero and two in Kings XI's opening couple of games, Glenn Maxwell returned to what he does best; namely blasting Kings XI over the line.
While Murali Vijay and Manan Vohra did the donkey work with a pair of 50s, a flurry of wickets for Pune saw the Australian coming to the wicket with a potentially troublesome 41 required from five overs.
However, two mighty sixes and a trio of fours later, Punjab had secured their first win of the campaign and Maxwell was on his way back to form.
9. Aaron Finch
2 of 10
Performance: 67 not out off 54 balls
Aaron Finch will score quicker innings over the course of this IPL season, but the Australian opener produced a more measured knock here to maintain Gujarat's 100 per cent record.
Chasing Mumbai's total of 143, Finch, battling cramp and a hamstring injury, shelved some of his bigger shots to bat throughout the innings and score the winning runs off the final ball.
The 29-year-old, who was surprisingly dropped for parts of Australia's ICC World Twenty20 campaign, has already scored three half-centuries for the Lions during the current campaign, and he looks in fine form.
8. Kieron Pollard
3 of 10
Performance: 40 not out off 19 balls
Since returning from injury, Kieron Pollard has been rusty to say the least, with three consecutive scores of just one run (although he was not out against Kolkata).
However, the Trinidadian rediscovered his range with some aplomb against Royal Challengers Bangalore, blasting three brutal sixes in five balls, to steer Mumbai's chase of 171 over the line.
Having lost three of their first five games, the win was a vital one for the Indians, who have struggled so far and were in danger of losing touch with the top four.
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7. Robin Uthappa
4 of 10
Performance: 53 off 28 balls
Kolkata continued their impressive start to the season with a win over Kings XI, which was made comfortable by Robin Uthappa's fluent knock.
On a wicket where just three of the opposition batsmen managed to reach double figures, the 30-year-old opener struck nine of the 28 balls he faced to the boundary.
While his international career is probably done and dusted, Uthappa clearly remains a force on the T20 scene, and his Knight Riders side seem on course to make the play-offs once more.
6. Krunal Pandya
5 of 10
Performance: 49 not out off 28 balls
It ended up being in vain but Krunal Pandya produced a sensational performance with the bat to, at least, give Mumbai something to defend in their clash against Hyderabad.
Two days after hitting an 11-ball 20 against Gujarat, the 25-year-old came to the crease here with his side in trouble at 60 for four from 10.4 overs and in danger of posting an embarrassing total.
However, six boundaries and some rapid running between the wickets later, and the rise and rise of Pandya's stock shows no sign of abating.
5. Virat Kohli
6 of 10
Performance: 79 off 48 balls
He may have finished on the losing side, but Virat Kohli added another innings to his Greatest Hits album with this sensational effort against Delhi Daredevils.
In allowing just eight dot-balls, the 27-year-old masterfully found the gaps, and he was particularly severe on ex-India colleague Zaheer Khan, who he punished for 20 runs from just eight balls.
While the defeat will hurt, Kohli can take some solace from his current run of form, which reads as five half-centuries from his last six innings, three of which were unbeaten.
4. Gautam Gambhir
7 of 10
Performance: 90 not out off 60 balls
While most of the other batsmen made run-scoring look like a taxing prospect, Gautam Gambhir recorded an effortless unbeaten 90 to help Kolkata to an eight-wicket win over Sunrisers.
The majority of the 34-year-old's runs came through the off-side, as the 34-year-old started methodically, recalling some of his 54 Test appearances.
However, Gambhir's trio of boundaries in the 11th over put the Knight Riders ahead of the curve, and he sealed the deal in the 19th over with 10 balls to spare.
3. David Warner
8 of 10
Performance: 90 off 59 balls
David Warner continued his personal flying start to the IPL season with a typically belligerent match-winning effort against Mumbai.
The Australian, who contributed over 62 per cent of the Sunrisers' runs in the game, severely punished the bowlers every time they got their lengths wrong. He was particularly severe on Mitchell McClenaghan, who he took three sixes off.
This effort was, at the time, Warner's second half-century of the competition and helped his Hyderabad side to their first win of the tournament.
2. AB De Villiers
9 of 10
Performance: 83 off 46 balls
It was as simple as ABC for AB De Villiers, who milked Pune's bowling attack to help the Royal Challengers record what turned out to be an unassailable score of 185.
Incredibly, from the 46 balls he faced, the 32-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman only failed to score from five deliveries.
And, in a week where a host of his T20 contemporaries registered significant efforts, this masterclass of T20 batting was a refreshing example to up-and-coming youngsters.
1. Quinton De Kock
10 of 10
Performance: 108 from 51 balls
Quinton de Kock blasted the first century of this year's IPL and the 36th in the competition's history to seal an impressive victory for Delhi.
A score of 191 would win most T20 games, but the South African's flashing blade made mincemeat of the Royal Challengers attack, sending 15 of the 51 balls he faced to the boundary and three of them over it.
Along with Karun Nair, De Kock added 134 runs for the third wicket from just 12.2 overs, and by the time he nicked off to Shane Watson, the game was all but in the bag.
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