C B Series: Only Kohli among 10 most valuable players

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present the most valuable players in the just-concluded tri-series Down Under. Sachin Tendulkar is way down in the table, and Virender Sehwag even lower!

The Commonwealth Bank Series was a disaster for India. Only one Indian (Virat Kohli) figures in the list of the ten most valuable players (MVP), and only two Indians (Kohli and Gautam Gambhir) figure in the top 20 list. It was that bad!

- India's tour of Australia

The MVPI formula picks out batsmen who score a lot of runs at a high strike rate, and bowlers who take a lot of wickets at a low economy rate.

David Hussey ( MVPI of 670) is just ahead of the Tillakaratne Dilshan (662); Hussey had a much better strike rate than Dilshan and also took a few more wickets.

The other top Australian performers were David Warner (590), Dan Christian (568) and Clint McKay (491).

The other Sri Lanka players who excelled were Nuwan Kulasekara (541), Kumar Sangakkara (515), Angelo Mathews (484) and the captain Mahela Jayawardene (483).

For India the table makes painful viewing. Sachin Tendulkar is way down in the table, and Virender Sehwag is even lower! If this is a shock, look at who is last on the table!

Table 1: Most valuable players in the Commonwealth Bank Series (Feb 5- Mar 8, 2012)

	Player Name	Team	Runs	Top score	Strike Rate	W	Eco	M	MVPI
1	David Hussey	AUS	439	74	101.15	4	5.1	11	670
2	Tillakaratne Dilshan	SL	513	160	83.96	2	4.2	11	662
3	David Warner	AUS	506	163	90.2	0		11	590
4	Daniel Christian	AUS	191	39	90.52	13	4.9	11	568
5	Nuwan Kulasekara	SL	119	73	119	12	5.0	11	541
6	Kumar Sangakkara	SL	420	105	86.96	0		11	515
7	Clint McKay	AUS	66	28	77.65	15	4.6	8	491
8	Angelo Mathews	SL	206	64	93.64	7	4.8	8	484
9	Mahela Jayawardene	SL	406	85	89.23	0		11	483
10	Virat Kohli	IND	373	133	92.79	0	9.0	8	433
11	Dinesh Chandimal	SL	419	81	81.2	0		11	421
12	Matthew Wade	AUS	341	67	76.63	0		11	406
13	Michael Clarke	AUS	331	117	95.39	1	5.2	6	401
14	Lasith Malinga	SL	11	6	42.31	18	6.2	11	362
15	Shane Watson	AUS	121	65	72.46	7	3.5	5	348
16	Xavier Doherty	AUS	29	13	76.32	9	4.5	11	331
17	Gautam Gambhir	IND	308	92	81.91	0		7	313
18	Thisara Perera	SL	51	21	104.08	9	6.3	7	294
19	Farveez Maharoof	SL	35	18	71.43	9	5.1	7	293
20	Brett Lee	AUS	56	32	60.22	12	5.7	7	292
21	MS Dhoni	IND	205	58	67.66	0		7	285
22	Ravichandran Ashwin	IND	81	30	81.82	7	4.8	7	283
23	Irfan Pathan	IND	96	47	109.09	6	5.3	4	275
24	Rangana Herath	SL	20	14	68.97	7	4.4	9	273
25	M Hussey	AUS	226	59	91.13	0		10	270
26	Vinay Kumar	IND	19	12	57.58	9	5.3	6	252
27	Suresh Raina	IND	182	40	85.85	1	5.4	8	240
28	Peter Forrest	AUS	250	104	71.02	0		7	227
29	Ben Hilfenhaus	AUS	0	0	0	9	5.4	5	217
30	Lahiru Thirimanne	SL	191	62	73.75	1	6.0	10	212
31	Sachin Tendulkar	IND	143	48	82.66	0		7	169
32	Dhammika Prasad	SL	46	31	143.75	5	5.8	3	168
33	Virender Sehwag	IND	65	30	112.07	3	5.4	5	166
34	Ravindra Jadeja	IND	101	24	70.14	3	5.3	8	156
35	Rohit Sharma	IND	79	33	71.17	2	6.6	5	154
36	Mitchell Starc	AUS	31	17	72.09	5	5.6	5	135
37	Sachithra Senanayake	SL	31	22	79.49	3	4.8	3	135
38	Zaheer Khan	IND	9	9	81.82	5	5.1	4	132
39	Upul Tharanga	SL	140	71	65.12	0		6	106
40	James Pattison	AUS	12	12	52.17	5	6.4	3	103
41	Praveen Kumar	IND	16	15	76.19	3	5.3	4	97
42	Umesh Yadav	IND	6	6	54.55	5	6.2	6	74
43	Ryan Harris	AUS	5	3	38.46	3	5.5	4	68
44	Rahul Sharma	IND	1	1	50	1	6.9	1	18
45	NM Lyon	AUS	0	0	0	0	4.5	1	8
46	Parthiv Patel	IND	4	4	57.14	0		1	7
47	Ricky Ponting	AUS	18	7	27.27	0		5	-4

It has been a disappointing season for India after the heady triumph at the 2011 World Cup. Only Virat Kohli has improved his reputation. He is also India's top run-scorer with 1279 runs, followed by Suresh Raina with 719 runs. M S Dhoni has generally performed well; he might have been second in the table if he had played more matches this season.

Three bowlers, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Vinay Kumar have topped the 20 wicket mark this season. But in an undistinguished season so far, the bowlers have been as disappointing as the batsmen. India is missing Yuvraj Singh; without him it seems hard to win matches, and it would certainly have been impossible to win the World Cup.

Table 2: India's most valuable players in the 2011-12 ODI season (28 matches so far)

	Player Name	Runs	6s	4s	Strike Rate	Bat Pts	W	Eco	Bowl Pts	Field Pts	M	MVPI
1	Virat Kohli	1279	5	121	89.4	1366.3	2	5.7	26.0	90	28	1482
2	Suresh Raina	719	15	60	99.7	837.2	8	4.7	220.5	70	28	1128
3	Ravindra Jadeja	321	2	25	80.9	311.2	27	5.1	661.3	65	21	1038
4	R Ashwin	193	0	14	79.1	182.7	28	4.8	748.8	70	23	1002
5	MS Dhoni	653	14	43	89.2	696.0	0		0.0	200	17	896
6	Rohit Sharma	641	10	41	85.6	657.8	2	6.6	24.0	62.5	15	744
7	G Gambhir	635	1	62	85.7	652.5	0		0.0	35	17	688
8	Parthiv Patel	446	6	44	80.9	432.8	0		0.0	147.5	20	580
9	Vinay Kumar	43	0	2	43.9	4.3	23	5.4	521.2	47.5	19	573
10	V Sehwag	330	8	42	121.3	433.3	3	5.4	69.0	15	9	517
11	Praveen Kumar	67	3	4	100.0	78.2	15	5.0	375.0	17.5	17	471
12	Amit Mishra	5	0	0	33.3	-2.5	11	4.0	326.0	5	5	329
13	Irfan Pathan	100	4	9	102.0	118.3	8	5.2	192.0	17.5	5	328
14	A Rahane	340	3	33	75.1	302.5	0		0.0	10	11	313
15	Umesh Yadav	23	0	4	76.7	21.0	15	6.1	268.7	10	12	300
16	Munaf Patel	0	0	0		0.0	10	5.6	213.3	25	8	238
17	Manoj Tiwary	163	2	16	80.7	157.7	1	6.9	6.0	60	5	224
18	Harbhajan Singh	47	2	1	69.1	37.3	4	3.6	143.0	10	3	190
19	Sachin Tendulkar	143	0	17	82.7	141.8	0		0.0	27.5	7	169
20	Rahul Sharma	1	0	0	50.0	0.3	5	5.0	124.7	17.5	3	143
21	Zaheer Khan	9	0	2	81.8	8.8	5	5.1	123.0	0	4	132
22	Rahul Dravid	124	0	9	77.5	114.7	0		0.0	0	5	115
23	Varun Aaron	0	0	0		0.0	4	4.7	102.8	0	2	103
24	A Mithun	23	2	2	143.8	32.7	3	6.4	49.0	5	3	87
25	Yusuf Pathan	42	2	2	91.3	45.7	2	5.7	35.0	5	5	86
26	RP Singh	0	0	0		0.0	4	6.5	68.0	5	3	73
27	Shikhar Dhawan	69	1	4	57.0	37.2	0		0.0	5	4	42
28	Vaun Aaron	6	0	1	54.5	2.8	2	5.9	32.0	0	2	35
29	Ishant Sharma	0	0	0	0.0	-4.2	1	5.5	14.3	5	2	15
30	S Badrinath	40	0	3	47.1	9.2	0		0.0	0	4	9

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