Raina heads the most valuable players' list

Shane Watson was the most valuable player of IPL 2008. Who will it be this time? Any of the top five ranked players has a chance, with Suresh Raina being the current favourite.

With the IPL league phase over, we decided to list the names of the top 75 players with their rank attached.

Rank	Player	Team	From	Runs	Str Rate	W	Eco	M	MVPI	Money ($)	PVI	Age
1	Suresh Raina	CSK	IND	414	143.3	7	5.7	13	651	650000	984	22
2	M Hayden	CSK	AUS	546	145.2	0	--	11	650	375000	553	37
3	Adam Gilchrist	DC	AUS	410	142.9	0	--	14	592	700000	1182	37
4	AB de Villiers	DD	SA	486	131.0	0	--	14	583	300000	515	25
5	Rohit Sharma	DC	IND	297	119.3	11	6.6	14	499	750000	1502	22
6	Brad Hodge	KKR	AUS	365	117.7	7	8.1	12	467	100000	208	34
7	Irfan Pathan	KXI	IND	196	124.1	17	7.7	14	453	925000	2042	24
8	J-P Duminy	MI	SA	372	114.5	4	5.8	13	450	950000	2083	25
9	Yuvraj Singh	KXI	IND	340	115.3	6	7.1	14	444	1063750	2394	27
10	Dinesh Karthik	DD	IND	279	133.5	0	--	14	421	525000	1248	23
11	Yusuf Pathan	RR	IND	243	132.8	7	6.9	13	412	475000	1136	26
12	Dwayne Bravo	MI	WI	218	107.4	11	7.8	10	395	150000	358	25
13	R Jadeja	RR	IND	295	110.9	6	6.5	13	395	30000	75	20
14	H Singh	MI	IND	84	158.5	12	5.8	13	383	850000	2189	28
15	MS Dhoni	CSK	IND	304	131.6	0	--	13	381	1500000	3878	27
16	S Tendulkar	MI	IND	364	120.1	0	9.7	13	375	1121250	2945	36
17	Jacques Kallis	BRC	SA	337	109.4	5	8.0	13	366	900000	2424	33
18	Anil Kumble	BRC	IND	15	83.3	17	5.9	14	361	500000	1384	38
19	Lasith Malinga	MI	SL	0	0.0	18	6.3	13	344	350000	1004	25
20	Ashish Nehra	DD	IND	1	100.0	18	6.6	12	342	400000	1135	30
21	RP Singh	DC	IND	8	47.1	20	7.1	14	342	875000	2560	23
22	T Dilshan	DD	SL	306	120.9	0	6.5	13	332	250000	743	32
23	Muralitharan	CSK	SL	8	100.0	13	5.3	12	331	600000	1761	37
24	Shane Warne	RR	AUS	108	93.1	14	7.3	13	323	450000	1375	39
25	K Sangakkara	KXI	SL	332	102.5	0	--	14	321	700000	2181	31
26	B McCullum	KKR	NZ	285	119.2	0	--	12	318	700000	2140	27
27	Munaf Patel	RR	IND	33	126.9	16	6.9	11	317	275000	830	25
28	T Suman	DC	IND	203	131.8	5	7.2	10	309	30000	92	25
29	S Jayasuriya	MI	SL	221	115.1	7	8.6	12	302	975000	3136	39
30	A Symonds	DC	AUS	192	147.7	4	6.8	6	299	1350000	1938	34
31	H Gibbs	DC	SA	275	107.8	0	--	12	290	575000	1928	35
32	Dwayne Smith	DC	WI	215	162.9	1	8.9	6	285	100000	311	26
33	Pragyan Ojha	DC	IND	1	14.3	15	6.3	13	282	30000	105	22
34	A Nayar	MI	IND	193	127.0	4	7.0	13	278	100000	355	25
35	Praveen Kumar	BRC	IND	63	146.5	12	7.8	11	274	300000	1049	22
36	Jayawardene	KXI	SL	219	132.7	0	--	10	264	475000	1698	31
37	Dirk Nannes	DD	AUS	0	--	15	7.2	12	263	70000	258	33
38	Albie Morkel	CSK	SA	77	145.3	12	8.2	11	262	650000	2372	27
39	Ross Taylor	BRC	NZ	236	134.1	0	13.0	9	255	100000	365	25
40	Piyush Chawla	KXI	IND	31	86.1	12	6.9	14	249	400000	1605	20
41	P Sangwan	DD	IND	6	66.7	15	7.7	12	244	30000	120	18
42	G Gambhir	DD	IND	286	104.8	0	--	14	239	725000	3037	27
43	Virat Kohli	BRC	IND	215	110.8	0	7.7	14	238	300000	1263	20
44	R v d Merwe	BRC	SA	88	122.2	8	7.5	8	233	75000	295	24
45	Rahul Dravid	BRC	IND	218	119.8	0	--	11	232	1035000	4279	36
46	Amit Mishra	DD	IND	26	136.8	11	7.2	10	226	30000	125	26
47	David Warner	DD	AUS	163	124.4	0	--	6	216	250000	1026	22
48	Shadab Jakati	CSK	IND	20	133.3	12	7.5	8	213	30000	129	28
49	Ishant Sharma	KKR	IND	16	123.1	11	6.9	11	210	950000	4325	20
50	V Sehwag	DD	IND	159	148.6	0	--	10	204	833750	3858	30
51	Mark Boucher	BRC	SA	145	131.8	0	--	10	199	450000	2132	32
52	Chris Gayle	KKR	WI	171	119.6	1	7.6	7	196	800000	2280	29
53	Naman Ojha	RR	IND	168	116.7	0	--	8	195	30000	141	25
54	MN van Wyk	KKR		167	126.5	0	--	5	193	50000	226
55	Venugopal Rao	DC	IND	124	110.7	4	8.1	14	186	30000	161	27
56	L Balaji	CSK	IND	4	40.0	13	8.5	12	184	30000	159	27
57	Yusuf Abdulla	KXI	SA	0	--	14	8.6	9	179	50000	259	26
58	Robin Uthappa	BRC	IND	158	101.9	0	--	13	173	800000	4565	23
59	Rajat Bhatia	DD	IND	4	25.0	10	6.7	7	171	30000	158	29
60	Amit Singh	RR	IND	1	33.3	9	5.4	5	170	30000	154	27
61	S Badrinath	CSK	IND	176	108.0	0	--	13	168	30000	176	28
62	Simon Katich	KXI	AUS	145	123.9	0	--	9	167	200000	1114	33
63	Laxmi Shukla	KKR	IND	83	97.6	3	7.1	9	163	30000	171	28
64	Graeme Smith	RR	SA	212	98.1	0	--	12	162	475000	2848	28
65	K Pietersen	BRC	ENG	93	109.4	4	6.5	6	160	1550000	4145	28
66	Daniel Vettori	DD	NZ	34	106.3	7	7.8	7	160	625000	3510	30
67	Ajinkya Rahane	MI	IND	144	117.1	1	5.0	8	156	40000	235	20
68	Sourav Ganguly	KKR	IND	189	91.3	2	8.1	13	154	1092500	6981	36
69	Jacob Oram	CSK	NZ	79	91.9	5	8.1	10	148	675000	4315	30
70	Manish Pandey	BRC	IND	116	154.7	0	--	3	142	30000	178	19
71	Brett Lee	KXI	AUS	28	82.4	5	5.6	5	139	900000	2682	32
72	David Hussey	KKR	AUS	98	166.1	0	8.5	4	137	675000	1967	31
73	Ravi Bopara	KXI	ENG	138	116.0	0	3.8	5	136	450000	1368	24
74	D Mascarenhas	RR	ENG	39	100.0	6	6.8	5	136	100000	640	31
75	Murali Kartik	KKR	IND	21	105.0	4	5.9	10	135	425000	2968	32

For the statistically-minded, this list contains a wealth of information, and readers can amuse themselves by making a wide variety of lists using counts, totals and averages, based on the team, country, age, player price etc. We hope to carry a detailed analysis after this IPL ends.

Srinivas Bhogle now works for TEOCO Software Pvt Ltd. This note is based on the detailed IPL1 analysis carried out by Purnendu Maji in 2008. The paisa vasool index uses a model developed by M J Manohar Rao and Rajeeva L Karandikar

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