Root leads MVP standings. Guess Kohli's position...

It isn’t a surprise that players from New Zealand dominate the MVP rankings in the World T20 so far, although Joe Root tops the list after his sizzling innings of 83 from 44 balls against South Africa, which helped England chase down a record 230 for victory in Mumbai.

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Players ratings.

IMAGE: England batsman Joe Root hits out against West Indies during the ICC World T20 match in Mumbai. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images

As we write this we still await the crucial India-Australia knockout match in Mohali, which will decide the second semi-finalist from Group 2.

But India’s individual performances in the World T20 so far haven’t been impressive.

A look at the most valuable player index (MVPI) table reveals that there’s no Indian player in the top 20. MVPI merges a player’s batting + bowling + fielding performance into a single ‘run equivalent’.

The formula to compute the MVP is devised to reward batsmen who score runs at a high strike rate, bowlers who take wickets at low economy rate and fielders who field the best (take a lot of catches and participate in run-outs).

Since this is a relatively low scoring tournament we have assumed a team’s par score to be 150, and each wicket to be worth 15 ‘runs’.

It isn’t a surprise that players from New Zealand dominate the rankings so far, although Joe Root tops the table after his 83 in 44 balls against South Africa.

However, Chris Gayle would probably have topped, if he hadn’t missed out batting in the match against Sri Lanka because of injury.

Despite Bangladesh being knocked out early, Shakib Al Hasan and Mustafizur Rehman both figure in the top 10.

However, there is bad news for Indian fans as the top-most ranked Indian player in this list is Virat Kohli, who is a lowly 29th.

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Players ratings.

Rank	Player	Team	Runs	4s	6s	Str Rate	W	Eco	M	MVPI
1	Joe Root	ENG	168	14	7	150	0	13	4	203
2	Quinton de Kock	SA	144	16	6	142.6	0	-	3	190
3	Chris Gayle	WI	104	6	11	208	2	5.7	3	185
4	Shahid Afridi	PAK	90	7	7	183.7	4	7.4	4	184
5	Mitchell Santner	NZ	22	2	0	104.8	9	5.7	4	183
6	Martin Guptill	NZ	125	12	8	162.3	0	-	3	178
7	Shakib Al Hasan	BAN	107	8	4	124.4	4	7.6	4	177
8	Ish Sodhi	NZ	0	0	0	-	8	5	4	164
9	Jos Buttler	ENG	123	10	6	151.9	0	-	4	149
10	Mustafizur Rahman	BAN	6	0	1	200	9	7.2	3	147
11	Shane Watson	AUS	78	7	4	162.5	3	8	3	140
12	Glenn Maxwell	AUS	78	7	3	139.3	2	7.2	3	138
13	Mohammad Nabi	AFG	26	3	1	92.9	4	6.4	3	132
14	Sharjeel Khan	PAK	112	18	3	143.6	0	-	4	131
15	AB de Villiers	SA	90	5	7	183.7	0	-	3	130
16	Usman Khawaja	AUS	117	16	2	133	0	-	3	128
17	Angelo Mathews	SL	114	6	6	118.8	1	6.9	3	128
18	Shoaib Malik	PAK	96	7	3	165.5	0	9	4	126
19	Thisara Perera	SL	72	6	4	150	3	11.2	3	125
20	Andre Russell	WI	40	5	1	125	5	8.2	3	123
21	James Faulkner	AUS	7	1	0	100	7	7.1	3	122
22	Dwayne Bravo	WI	10	1	0	100	6	6.8	3	122
23	Grant Elliott	NZ	46	4	0	115	3	5.4	4	120
24	Samiullah Shenwari	AFG	78	7	2	141.8	1	6	3	120
25	Jason Roy	ENG	105	11	5	136.4	0	-	4	118
26	Jean-Paul Duminy	SA	83	5	4	172.9	1	10.3	2	117
27	Tillakaratne Dilshan	SL	97	9	4	142.6	0	-	3	109
28	David Willey	ENG	20	0	2	117.6	6	8.1	4	107
29	Virat Kohli	IND	102	9	2	115.9	0	-	3	102
30	Ravindra Jadeja	IND	12	2	0	109.1	4	5.7	3	100
31	Imran Tahir	SA	0	0	0	-	5	5.4	3	100
32	Chris Jordan	ENG	20	3	0	95.2	5	8.5	4	100
33	Andre Fletcher	WI	95	6	6	126.7	0	-	2	100
34	Sabbir Rahman	BAN	75	11	1	108.7	1	5.5	4	98
35	Moeen Ali	ENG	56	5	2	124.4	4	10.1	4	96
36	Suresh Raina	IND	31	1	2	119.2	3	4.8	3	95
37	Mohammad Shahzad	AFG	56	5	5	164.7	0	-	3	92
38	Ahmed Shehzad	PAK	108	14	0	102.9	0	-	4	89
39	Adam Zampa	AUS	2	0	0	200	5	6.4	3	87
40	Mahmudullah	BAN	76	8	1	118.8	1	9.4	4	86
41	Ross Taylor	NZ	85	5	3	118.1	0	-	4	84
42	Kane Williamson	NZ	91	11	1	102.2	0	3	4	83
43	Corey Anderson	NZ	58	6	0	89.2	2	6.2	4	83
44	MS Dhoni	IND	56	2	2	109.8	0	-	3	83
45	Steven Smith	AUS	81	8	1	128.6	0	-	3	83
46	Hashim Amla	SA	64	8	3	173	0	-	3	82
47	David Miller	SA	48	4	3	200	0	-	3	82
48	Luke Ronchi	NZ	47	3	2	156.7	0	-	4	81
49	Mohammad Hafeez	PAK	69	7	2	146.8	0	-	2	79
50	Eoin Morgan	ENG	61	2	3	132.6	0	-	4	77
51	Umar Akmal	PAK	78	4	2	121.9	0	-	4	76
52	Faf du Plessis	SA	67	8	2	131.4	0	-	3	74
53	Chris Morris	SA	16	2	0	94.1	5	8.9	3	74
54	Asghar Stanikzai	AFG	70	3	5	122.8	0	-	3	73
55	Nathan McCullum	NZ	0	0	0	0	3	4.2	2	72
56	Ben Stokes	ENG	43	4	3	172	1	9.3	4	71
57	Colin Munro	NZ	72	4	3	101.4	0	-	4	70
58	Ravichandran Ashwin	IND	15	1	0	68.2	3	5.8	3	70
59	Rashid Khan	AFG	26	3	1	96.3	3	7.9	3	70
60	Mitchell McClenaghan	NZ	6	0	1	600	4	7.9	3	68
61	Jeffrey Vandersay	SL	0	0	0	0	3	4.6	2	67
62	Samuel Badree	WI	0	0	0	-	3	6.2	3	64
63	Adam Milne	NZ	2	0	0	100	3	6.9	3	63
64	Marlon Samuels	WI	83	14	0	100	0	-	3	62
65	Ashish Nehra	IND	0	0	0	0	3	6.3	3	61
66	Rangana Herath	SL	4	0	0	80	3	6.5	3	59
67	Kyle Abbott	SA	0	0	0	-	5	10	2	56
68	Alex Hales	ENG	45	8	0	121.6	0	-	3	56
69	Al-Amin Hossain	BAN	0	0	0	0	5	9.3	4	53
70	Hardik Pandya	IND	16	2	1	114.3	3	10.7	3	53

Team ' Runs (scored) ' 4s ' 6s ' Strike rate ' W: Wickets taken ' Eco: Economy rate 'Ct St: Catches, stumpings ' Run outs ' M: Matches played ' MVPI: Most valuable player index = sum of batting, bowling and fielding points '

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