Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji identify India's most valuable players in ODI games this season.
Virat Kohli, despite a small blip in performance, is still India's most valuable ODI player (MVPI: 1285), with Rohit Sharma (1278) just a handshake behind.
Ravindra Jadeja confirms that he's India's best all-rounder in Hardik Pandya's absence, and, if K L Rahul remains wicket-keeper, it's possible for both of them to play every ODI game.
India's Most Valuable ODI players in 2019-2020 (21 matches so far)
| Rank | Player | Runs | 4s | 6s | Strike_Rate | Wickets | Economy Rate | Matches | MVPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virat Kohli | 1,024 | 97 | 5 | 96.4 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1285 |
| 2 | Rohit Sharma | 1,105 | 117 | 22 | 96.7 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1278 |
| 3 | Lokesh Rahul | 896 | 72 | 20 | 89.7 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1012 |
| 4 | Ravindra Jadeja | 261 | 17 | 6 | 102 | 13 | 5 | 14 | 746 |
| 5 | Mohammed Shami | 16 | 1 | 0 | 57.1 | 31 | 6.1 | 14 | 697 |
| 6 | Shreyas Iyer | 538 | 51 | 14 | 103 | 0 | 13 | 12 | 689 |
| 7 | Jasprit Bumrah | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 19 | 4.7 | 15 | 523 |
| 8 | Hardik Pandya | 226 | 21 | 4 | 112 | 10 | 5.7 | 9 | 510 |
| 9 | Yuzvendra Chahal | 15 | 2 | 0 | 88.2 | 19 | 5.7 | 11 | 447 |
| 10 | Shikhar Dhawan | 333 | 44 | 2 | 97.7 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 387 |
| 11 | Kuldeep Yadav | 18 | 2 | 0 | 106 | 17 | 5.6 | 16 | 373 |
| 12 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 14 | 5.2 | 9 | 358 |
| 13 | Rishabh Pant | 281 | 30 | 7 | 96.9 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 341 |
| 14 | MS Dhoni | 273 | 20 | 5 | 87.8 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 337 |
| 15 | Kedar Jadhav | 215 | 20 | 4 | 96.8 | 0 | 5.2 | 14 | 289 |
| 16 | Navdeep Saini | 53 | 7 | 2 | 96.4 | 5 | 6.3 | 5 | 139 |
| 17 | Vijay Shankar | 58 | 6 | 0 | 77.3 | 2 | 4.1 | 3 | 131 |
| 18 | Shardul Thakur | 55 | 8 | 1 | 149 | 6 | 7.6 | 6 | 107 |
| 19 | Prithvi Shaw | 84 | 12 | 2 | 102 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 100 |
| 20 | Manish Pandey | 52 | 4 | 0 | 92.9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 67 |
| 21 | Khaleel Ahmed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7.5 | 3 | 58 |
| 22 | Mayank Agarwal | 36 | 6 | 0 | 92.3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 45 |
| 23 | Deepak Chahar | 6 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 1 | 5.4 | 2 | 23 |
| 24 | Dinesh Karthik | 14 | 2 | 0 | 41.2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15 |
| 25 | Shivam Dube | 9 | 1 | 0 | 150 | 0 | 8.7 | 1 | -16 |
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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