Team of the tournament

Here goes my team of the tourney, a lot of the players pick themselves to be honest, but hopefully there's a good bit of balance to this team.

Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka)

Man of the tournament, the top run scorer and the best batsman by a country mile.

Kamran Akmal (Pakistan)

Stumpings galore keeping to Ajmal and Afridi, he might not hang around for long with the bat, but would get the innings off to a flyer.

Jacques Kallis (South Africa)

A model of consistency, he scored 238 runs at an average of 59.5 – something that will please him. The rest of the batting line up would be built around this slightly more stoic performer.

Kevin Pietersen (England)

Peerless boundary hitter and a man for the big occasion

Younis Khan (Pakistan), captain

Younis held the Pakistan batting together through the early stages of the tournament, scoring 299 runs. Also captained Pakistan to victory superbly.

Shahid Afridi (Pakistan)

Like Pakistan, he started slowly and built into the tournament, taking the whole competition by the scruff of the neck from the semi final onwards.

Dwayne Bravo (West Indies)

Up there in both the wicket taking and run scoring charts, all done with panache and enthusiasm, a go-to guy in tough situations, he turned in one of the performances of the tournament in victory against India.

Umer Gul (Pakistan)

The leading wicket taker, and almost impossible to score quickly off his swinging yorkers at the death, would warrant selection for his 5-6 against New Zealand, the best bowling figures ever in international Twenty20.

Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka)

Like Gul, a massive wicket taking threat and very difficult to score off of. His slower ball full toss / yorker was simply unplayable.

Ajantha Mendis (Sri Lanka)

Outbowled the more illustrious Murali in taking 12 wickets at 9.08, all at less than five an over. Kamran Akmal managed to get after him in the final, but otherwise no batsman looked comfortable against his fast spinners.

Wayne Parnell (South Africa)

I’d have Parnell taking the new ball. Fast, straight and adding variety with his left arm over action. A big breakthrough for the nineteen year old.