Morris leads MVP rankings; Rana best paisa vasool player

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Player standings after the 23rd game in IPL 10.

IMAGE: Chris Morris of the Delhi Daredevils celebrates a wicket. Photographs: BCCI

The Indian Premier League juggernaut rolls on...

Day after day, match after match!

So who is IPL's top performer at this stage? And at what price?

Currently, it is Chris Morris of the Delhi Daredevils with a MVP of 340 and a PVI of 1097.

MVP is the most valuable player index. MVPI collapses every player's batting, bowling and fielding performance into a single 'run equivalent'.

To have the best MVPI, players must score a lot of runs at a high strike rate, and take a lot of wickets at a low economy rate.

More catches and run outs help even more.

Morris has 12 wickets, at a better-than-par economy rate of 6.6 (the par economy rate is eight runs conceded per over) and scored 74 runs at a staggering strike rate of almost 240 (the par strike rate is 133 runs in 100 balls).

PVI is the player's Paisa Vasool Index.

If we look at Morris again, he was bought by Delhi for Rs 7 crores (approximately $1,044,000) to be available for at least 14 matches.

He has played five out of these 14 matches so far, and so earned 5/14th of the money equaling $372,857.

In return, Morris has offered the DD franchise 340 'runs'.

So, for every 'run' DD get from Morris they pay him $372,857/340 = $1,097. This is Morris' PVI.

Amongst the current top IPL performers the player with the best (lowest) PVI is Nitish Rana of the Mumbai Indians with a MVPI of 283.

Bought for just Rs 10 lakhs ($14,000), the franchise earns a 'run' from Rana for just $18!

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IMAGE: Nitish Rana in action.

Just to get a better feel for these numbers, Ajinkya Rahane of Rising Pune Supergiant has a MVPI of 127 and a PVI of 3985.

Rahane has offered RPS 127 'runs' so far and they have had to pay him $3,985 per 'run'.

The table below indicates the MVPI and the PVI for the top 50 players in IPL10.

This data was updated after the 23rd game on April 21, 2017.

Rank	Player's Name	Team	From	Runs	Top score	4's	6's	Str Rate	W	Eco	M	MVPI	Money Offered (US $)	PVI(US$)	PVI(INR)	Age
1	Chris Morris	DD	SA	74	38	8	4	238.7	12	6.6	5	340	1044000	1097	73529	30
2	Brendon McCullum	GL	NZ	258	72	22	16	150.9	0	-	6	312	820000	1126	75549	36
3	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	SH	IND	4	4	0	0	133.3	15	5.7	6	303	634000	897	60113	27
4	Suresh Raina	GL	IND	243	84	24	7	148.2	1	8.8	6	287	1865000	2785	186660	30
5	Nitish Rana	MI	IND	255	62	14	16	142.5	0	-	6	283	14000	18	1262	23
6	Manish Pandey	KKR	IND	245	81	16	11	145.8	0	-	6	282	253000	385	25836	28
7	David Warner	SH	AUS	239	76	26	9	134.3	0	-	6	261	820000	1346	90312	30
8	Gautam Gambhir	KKR	IND	229	76	32	1	138	0	-	6	253	1865000	3159	211745	36
9	Hashim Amla	KXI	SA	234	104	22	10	141.8	0	-	6	248	149000	257	17281	34
10	Sanju Samson	DD	IND	215	102	21	8	142.4	0	-	5	241	626000	928	62241	22
11	Robin Uthappa	KKR	IND	174	72	18	7	161.1	0	-	6	232	746000	1378	92365	31
12	Sunil Narine	KKR	WI	87	42	14	4	185.1	4	6.4	6	221	1417000	2748	184228	29
13	Jos Buttler	MI	ENG	185	77	15	12	156.8	0	-	6	217	567000	1120	75049	27
14	Kedar Jadhav	RCB	IND	166	69	14	8	161.2	0	-	6	215	324000	646	43256	32
15	Glenn Maxwell	KXI	AUS	162	44	14	12	184.1	0	12.5	6	214	895000	1792	120160	29
16	Manan Vohra	KXI	IND	174	95	18	8	165.7	0	-	5	212	597000	1207	80863	24
17	Shikhar Dhawan	SH	IND	205	70	22	3	120.6	0	-	6	199	1865000	4017	269203	31
18	Krunal Pandya	MI	IND	88	37	8	4	144.3	5	6.9	6	198	298000	645	43290	26
19	Axar Patel	KXI	IND	88	44	2	5	117.3	6	7.3	6	195	111000	244	16484	23
20	Rishabh Pant	DD	IND	141	57	9	10	167.9	0	-	5	194	283000	521	34978	20
21	Hardik Pandya	MI	IND	96	35	7	8	240	3	8.3	6	191	14000	31	2244	24
22	Rashid Khan	SH	AFG	8	6	0	1	160	9	7.4	6	187	597000	1368	91673	19
23	Kieron Pollard	MI	WI	164	70	9	11	142.6	0	16.4	6	183	1417000	3319	222482	30
24	Steven Smith	RPS	WI	180	84	19	4	135.3	0	-	4	183	820000	1600	107338	28
25	Ben Stokes	RPS	ENG	100	50	7	4	138.9	4	7.6	5	179	2164000	4318	289306	26
26	Virat Kohli	RCB	IND	154	64	15	4	132.8	0	-	3	169	1865000	4730	316991	28
27	Chris Lynn	KKR	AUS	125	93	9	9	192.3	0	-	2	163	194000	510	34181	27
28	Chris Gayle	RCB	WI	137	77	10	11	145.7	0	-	4	157	1119000	3055	204732	38
29	Sam Billings	DD	ENG	138	55	19	1	135.3	0	-	5	156	44000	101	6868	26
30	AB de Villiers	RCB	SA	137	89	4	12	141.2	0	-	3	153	1417000	3969	266106	33
31	Yuvraj Singh	SH	IND	96	62	10	5	174.5	1	6	6	153	1044000	2924	196078	35
32	Dinesh Karthik	GL	IND	132	48	10	4	138.9	0	-	6	149	343000	987	66155	32
33	Moises Henriques	SH	AUS	138	52	13	2	127.8	1	9.6	5	144	149000	443	29762	30
34	Parthiv Patel	MI	IND	128	39	18	3	137.6	0	-	6	140	208000	637	42857	32
35	Pat Cummins	DD	AUS	21	12	3	0	131.3	7	7.9	5	134	671000	1788	119936	24
36	Imran Tahir	RPS	SA	0	0	0	0	0	8	8.1	5	128	716000	1998	133929	38
37	Zaheer Khan	DD	IND	1	1	0	0	100	7	8.1	5	127	597000	1679	112486	39
38	Aaron Finch	GL	AUS	101	33	9	7	162.9	0	-	5	127	149000	503	33746	30
39	Andrew Tye	GL	AUS	6	6	0	0	100	7	7.1	3	127	74000	250	16873	30
40	Ajinkya Rahane	RPS	IND	119	60	12	4	138.4	0	-	5	127	1417000	3985	267154	29
41	Yuzvendra Chahal	RCB	IND	4	3	0	0	44.4	7	7.3	6	125	14000	48	3429	27
42	Pawan Negi	RCB	IND	33	13	0	2	117.9	4	6.5	5	122	149000	523	35129	24
43	Yusuf Pathan	KKR	IND	97	59	9	3	140.6	1	8.5	6	121	485000	1718	115112	34
44	Mitchell McClenaghan	MI	NZ	0	0	0	0	0	9	9.1	6	120	44000	157	10714	31
45	Manoj Tiwary	RPS	IND	98	40	8	5	160.7	0	-	4	119	74000	222	15006	31
46	Shreyas Iyer	DD	IND	98	50	12	2	150.8	0	-	3	113	388000	1226	82174	22
47	Kuldeep Yadav	KKR	IND	0	0	0	0	-	6	7.6	5	111	59000	228	15444	22
48	Kane Williamson	SH	NZ	89	89	6	5	174.5	0	-	1	110	89000	347	23377	27
49	Shahbaz Nadeem	DD	IND	0	0	0	0	0	4	4.9	3	104	126000	433	29190	28
50	Samuel Badree	RCB	WI	0	0	0	0	0	5	5.1	2	102	74000	311	21008	36

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