Kohli is WT20's most valuable player!

Players from England and the West Indies dominate the World T20 MVP rankings, with Joe Root just behind India’s Virat Kohli in second place.

Having failed to make it to the final, it is not surprising that India has only two players in the top 25, with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni at No 24.

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji anaylse the players’ performance in Rediff.com's Most Valuable Players ratings.

IMAGE: Virat Kohli: ICC’s Player of the World T20 and Rediff.com’s Most Valuable Player.Photograph: BCCI

India's batting sensation Virat Kohli, named player of the tournament, is also the most valuable player of World T20 2016.

With a fifty and two wickets, England's Joe Root is just behind him.

The most valuable player index (MVPI) picks out batsmen who score a lot of runs, and very quickly; bowlers who take a lot of wickets at a low economy rate; and fielders who takes the most catches or participate in the most run dismissals.

For our calculations of the 2016 World T20, we assumed a team par score of 150, and every wicket worth 15 ‘runs’.

If a batsman scored at a strike rate of over 125, he had bonus ‘runs’ added; penalty ‘runs’ were deducted if the strike rate was below 125. If the bowler conceded less than 30 runs in his 4 overs he got bonus ‘runs’ added; if he conceded more than 30 he had penalty ‘runs’ subtracted.

We don’t think our MVPI formula is the best (what indeed is the ‘best’ formula?), but we’ve published this analysis on Rediff for over a decade now and the index has usually ranked player performance well.

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

Rank	Player	Team	Runs	Four	Six	Str Rate	W	Eco	M	MVPI
1	Virat Kohli	IND	273	29	5	146.8	1	9	5	338
2	Joe Root	ENG	249	24	7	146.5	2	11	6	325
3	Jos Buttler	ENG	191	13	12	159.2	0	-	6	248
4	Andre Russell	WI	91	8	5	142.2	9	7.9	6	244
5	Jason Roy	ENG	183	22	7	148.8	0	-	6	216
6	Quinton de Kock	SA	153	18	6	143	0	-	4	212
7	David Willey	ENG	41	1	4	132.3	10	7.6	6	204
8	Mitchell Santner	NZ	29	3	0	107.4	10	6.3	5	201
9	Dwayne Bravo	WI	63	3	2	95.5	9	7.9	6	200
10	Chris Gayle	WI	113	8	11	194.8	2	5.7	5	197
11	Shane Watson	AUS	96	9	4	150	5	7.4	4	197
12	Samuel Badree	WI	2	0	0	100	9	5.4	6	197
13	Martin Guptill	NZ	140	15	8	157.3	0	-	4	193
14	Shahid Afridi	PAK	90	7	7	183.7	4	7.4	4	184
15	Ish Sodhi	NZ	0	0	0	-	10	6.1	5	182
16	Shakib Al Hasan	BAN	107	8	4	124.4	4	7.6	4	177
17	Mohammad Nabi	AFG	35	4	1	97.2	6	6.4	4	174
18	Marlon Samuels	WI	181	26	2	112.4	0	-	6	165
19	Usman Khawaja	AUS	143	22	2	137.5	0	-	4	164
20	Glenn Maxwell	AUS	109	8	4	129.8	2	7.6	4	162
21	AB de Villiers	SA	110	5	9	180.3	0	-	4	155
22	Mustafizur Rahman	BAN	6	0	1	200	9	7.2	3	147
23	Tillakaratne Dilshan	SL	133	13	5	123.1	0	-	4	146
24	MS Dhoni	IND	89	6	2	127.1	0	-	5	138
25	Ben Stokes	ENG	56	5	3	169.7	4	9.6	6	134
26	James Faulkner	AUS	17	2	0	100	8	8.1	4	134
27	Carlos Brathwaite	WI	57	1	7	203.6	4	8.1	6	133
28	Thisara Perera	SL	80	6	4	145.5	3	10.3	4	132
29	Sharjeel Khan	PAK	112	18	3	143.6	0	-	4	131
30	Chris Jordan	ENG	32	4	0	94.1	6	8.2	6	131
31	Samiullah Shenwari	AFG	79	7	2	136.2	1	5.8	4	130
32	Hashim Amla	SA	120	13	4	134.8	0	-	4	129
33	Angelo Mathews	SL	114	6	6	118.8	1	6.9	3	128
34	Imran Tahir	SA	0	0	0	-	6	5.2	4	127
35	Colin Munro	NZ	118	11	4	114.6	0	-	5	126
36	Shoaib Malik	PAK	96	7	3	165.5	0	9	4	126
37	Rashid Khan	AFG	32	3	2	114.3	5	7.6	4	126
38	Mohd Shahzad	AFG	80	7	6	142.9	0	-	4	124
39	Moeen Ali	ENG	56	5	2	119.1	5	9.4	6	122
40	Grant Elliott	NZ	50	4	0	108.7	3	5.8	5	122
41	Jean-Paul Duminy	SA	83	5	4	172.9	1	10.3	2	117
42	Kane Williamson	NZ	123	14	2	105.1	0	3	5	112
43	Johnson Charles	WI	117	11	5	108.3	0	-	6	111
44	Andre Fletcher	WI	106	8	6	120.5	0	-	3	110
45	Ashish Nehra	IND	0	0	0	0	5	5.9	5	107
46	Suresh Raina	IND	41	2	2	124.2	3	4.8	5	106
47	Faf du Plessis	SA	98	11	2	112.6	0	-	4	103
48	Lendl Simmons	WI	82	7	5	157.7	0	-	2	103
49	Corey Anderson	NZ	86	8	1	97.7	2	7	5	102
50	Najibullah Zadran	AFG	86	7	4	141	0	-	4	100
51	Sabbir Rahman	BAN	75	11	1	108.7	1	5.5	4	98
52	Kyle Abbott	SA	0	0	0	-	7	8.1	3	98
53	Adam Zampa	AUS	2	0	0	200	5	6.3	4	91
54	Ahmed Shehzad	PAK	108	14	0	102.9	0	-	4	89
55	Ross Taylor	NZ	91	5	3	113.8	0	-	5	86
56	Mahmudullah	BAN	76	8	1	118.8	1	9.4	4	86
57	Ravindra Jadeja	IND	12	2	0	109.1	4	7.2	5	85
58	Luke Ronchi	NZ	50	3	2	151.5	0	-	5	83
59	David Miller	SA	48	4	3	200	0	-	4	82
60	Steven Smith	AUS	83	8	1	120.3	0	-	4	80
61	Mohammad Hafeez	PAK	69	7	2	146.8	0	-	2	79
62	Rohit Sharma	IND	88	7	4	107.3	0	-	5	78
63	Asghar Stanikzai	AFG	86	3	6	108.9	0	-	4	77
64	Umar Akmal	PAK	78	4	2	121.9	0	-	4	76
65	Eoin Morgan	ENG	66	3	3	111.9	0	-	6	74
66	Alex Hales	ENG	66	9	1	111.9	0	-	5	74
67	Chris Morris	SA	16	2	0	94.1	5	8.9	3	74
68	Nathan McCullum	NZ	0	0	0	0	3	4.2	2	72
69	Adil Rashid	ENG	4	0	0	100	5	8.4	6	69
70	Jeffrey Vandersay	SL	3	0	0	37.5	3	5.2	3	69
71	Mitch McClenaghan	NZ	7	0	1	233.3	4	7.9	4	66
72	Rangana Herath	SL	6	0	0	60	3	6.2	4	66
73	Hardik Pandya	IND	16	2	1	114.3	5	10.2	5	64
74	R Ashwin	IND	15	1	0	68.2	4	7.7	5	64
75	Aaron Phangiso	SA	4	0	0	80	3	5.6	2	62
76	Peter Nevill	AUS	18	1	2	360	0	-	4	60
77	Adam Milne	NZ	2	0	0	100	3	7.4	4	59
78	Yuvraj Singh	IND	52	2	2	100	1	6.3	4	58
79	Denesh Ramdin	WI	36	1	0	69.2	0	-	6	57
80	Sulieman Benn	WI	0	0	0	-	2	6.8	6	57
81	David Wiese	SA	28	2	0	107.7	1	8.2	3	55
82	Jasprit Bumrah	IND	0	0	0	0	4	7.7	5	55
83	Aaron Finch	AUS	58	4	2	116	0	-	2	54
84	Al-Amin Hossain	BAN	0	0	0	0	5	9.3	4	53
85	Imad Wasim	PAK	0	0	0	0	3	7	3	53
86	Dinesh Chandimal	SL	56	5	3	96.6	0	-	4	52
87	Mohammad Sami	PAK	4	1	0	200	4	9.3	3	52
88	Liam Plunkett	ENG	4	0	0	100	2	6.4	4	51
89	Mushfiqur Rahim	BAN	44	7	0	110	0	-	4	50
90	Tamim Iqbal	BAN	62	5	2	103.3	0	-	3	49
91	Shafiqullah	AFG	44	4	2	141.9	0	-	3	49
92	Shuvagata Hom	BAN	29	3	1	103.6	1	6.6	3	49
93	Amir Hamza	AFG	4	0	0	50	3	7.2	3	47
94	Noor Ali Zadran	AFG	62	4	1	93.9	0	-	3	46
95	Mohammad Amir	PAK	0	0	0	-	3	7.9	4	44
96	Khalid Latif	PAK	49	4	1	102.1	0	-	2	42
97	Mitchell Marsh	AUS	30	1	2	103.4	1	7.6	2	42
98	Farhaan Behardien	SA	0	0	0	-	2	5	1	42
99	Ajinkya Rahane	IND	40	2	0	114.3	0	-	1	40
100	Milinda Siriwardana	SL	22	2	1	110	2	9	4	39

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