Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji list the Most Valuable Players in 2020-21 season.
The ODI performances of Indian cricketers during the highly curtailed 2020-2021 season, that featured only 9 matches.
Hardik Pandya still tops the season's ranking, but almost entirely because of his exceptional batting.
Most valuable ODI players
| Rank | Player Name | Runs | 4s | 6s | Strike Rate | Wickets | Economy Rate | Games | MVPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hardik Pandya | 329 | 24 | 14 | 121 | 3 | 6.3 | 9 | 494 |
| 2 | Shikhar Dhawan | 417 | 53 | 3 | 90.8 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 410 |
| 3 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 22 | 2 | 0 | 66.7 | 9 | 5.3 | 5 | 357 |
| 4 | Shardul Thakur | 30 | 1 | 3 | 142.9 | 10 | 6.2 | 4 | 336 |
| 5 | Lokesh Rahul | 270 | 16 | 11 | 101.1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 328 |
| 6 | Virat Kohli | 302 | 24 | 4 | 90.1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 304 |
| 7 | Rishabh Pant | 155 | 8 | 11 | 152 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 243 |
| 8 | Krunal Pandya | 130 | 11 | 2 | 101.6 | 2 | 5.9 | 5 | 202 |
| 9 | Deepak Chahar | 69 | 7 | 1 | 84.1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 181 |
| 10 | Ravindra Jadeja | 115 | 6 | 6 | 117.3 | 1 | 6.2 | 3 | 167 |
| 11 | Prasidh Krishna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6.9 | 3 | 154 |
| 12 | Yuzvendra Chahal | 4 | 0 | 0 | 66.7 | 6 | 6.7 | 4 | 154 |
| 13 | Suryakumar Yadav | 124 | 18 | 0 | 122.8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 147 |
| 14 | Prithvi Shaw | 105 | 20 | 0 | 125 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 136 |
| 15 | Mohammed Shami | 14 | 1 | 1 | 100 | 4 | 6.9 | 2 | 121 |
| 16 | Ishan Kishan | 60 | 8 | 2 | 130.4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 114 |
| 17 | Jasprit Bumrah | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6.6 | 3 | 97 |
| 18 | Rahul Chahar | 13 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 3 | 5.4 | 1 | 97 |
| 19 | Rohit Sharma | 90 | 15 | 0 | 86.5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 96 |
| 20 | Shreyas Iyer | 65 | 8 | 0 | 95.6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 92 |
| 21 | Chetan Sakariya | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4.3 | 1 | 83 |
| 22 | Kuldeep Yadav | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6.5 | 5 | 76 |
| 23 | Manish Pandey | 74 | 4 | 1 | 82.2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 73 |
| 24 | T Natarajan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.2 | 2 | 67 |
| 25 | Mayank Agarwal | 50 | 6 | 1 | 113.6 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 57 |
| 26 | Sanju Samson | 46 | 5 | 1 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 51 |
| 27 | K Gowtham | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66.7 | 1 | 6.1 | 1 | 35 |
| 28 | Shubman Gill | 33 | 3 | 1 | 84.6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 |
| 29 | Devdutt Padikkal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 30 | Navdeep Saini | 54 | 2 | 1 | 65.9 | 1 | 8.2 | 3 | 8 |
| 31 | Nitish Rana | 7 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 3.3 | 1 | 8 |
MVPI: Most Valuable Player Index = Sum of batting, bowling and fielding points. Run outs are counted as 1 (wicket) for a direct hit, and 0.5 (wicket) if the fielder is an equal participant in a run out dismissal.
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