Who will be IPL-11's Most Valuable Player?

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji list the 50 most valuable IPL-11 players.

IMAGE: Rishabh Pant celebrates his ton. Photograph: BCCI

As IPL-11 takes a brief pause, this is a good time to speculate who might be the MVP this time.

Rishabh Pant of the Delhi Daredevils is still up there, and his only potential challenger is Kane Williamson, the Sunrisers Hyderabad captain -- especially if his team reaches the final.

The table below lists the 50 most valuable IPL-11 players and uses it to calculate how many US$ the franchise pays the player for every 'run' scored.

The 'run' is more accurately a run equivalent that collapses a player's batting, bowling and fielding performance into a single index: The Most Valuable Player Index.

IMAGE: Kane Williamson in action. Photograph: BCCI

Best performing players at IPL-11 after 58 matches

Rank	Player's Name	Team	From	Runs	Top Score	4s	6s	Strike Rate	Wickets	Economy	Matches	MVPI	$ per 'run'	Age
1	Rishabh Pant	DD	IND	684	128	68	37	173.6	0	-	14	897	2612	21
2	K L Rahul	KXI	IND	659	95	66	32	158.4	0	-	14	839	2048	26
3	Kane Williamson	SRH	NZ	685	84	58	26	143.6	0	-	15	788	636	28
4	Jos Buttler	RR	ENG	548	95	52	21	155.2	0	-	13	705	974	28
5	Sunil Narine	KKR	WI	331	75	36	22	189.1	16	7.8	15	702	2782	30
6	Ambati Rayudu	CSK	IND	586	100	52	33	153	0	-	15	673	546	33
7	Dinesh Karthik	KKR	IND	490	52	48	16	148	0	-	15	631	1832	33
8	A B de Villiers	RCB	SA	480	90	39	30	174.5	0	-	12	625	2749	34
9	M S Dhoni	CSK	IND	455	79	24	30	150.7	0	-	15	615	4082	37
10	Virat Kohli	RCB	IND	530	92	52	18	139.1	0	-	14	600	4427	29
11	Andre Russell	KKR	WI	313	88	17	31	190.9	13	9.4	15	596	2228	30
12	Hardik Pandya	MI	IND	260	50	20	11	133.3	18	8.9	13	577	2977	25
13	Suryakumar Yadav	MI	IND	512	72	61	16	133.3	0	-	14	568	880	28
14	Shane Watson	CSK	AUS	438	106	33	27	145	6	9	14	562	1192	37
15	Krunal Pandya	MI	IND	228	41	22	10	145.2	12	7.1	14	533	2580	27
16	Shikhar Dhawan	SRH	IND	437	92	53	12	139.2	0	-	14	504	1726	32
17	Sanju Samson	RR	IND	441	92	30	19	137.8	0	-	15	475	2632	23
18	Suresh Raina	CSK	IND	413	75	43	11	132.4	0	-	14	466	3950	31
19	Chris Lynn	KKR	AUS	443	74	50	16	128	0	-	15	437	3432	28
20	Shreyas Iyer	DD	IND	411	93	29	21	132.6	0	-	14	433	2524	23
21	Andrew Tye	KXI	AUS	32	14	2	1	84.2	24	8	14	425	2647	31
22	Evin Lewis	MI	WI	382	65	32	24	138.4	0	-	13	416	1425	26
23	Chris Gayle	KXI	WI	368	104	30	27	146	0	-	11	408	765	39
24	Rashid Khan	SRH	AFG	25	17	1	2	119	18	6.9	15	407	3701	20
25	Gowtham Krishnappa	RR	IND	126	33	9	9	196.9	11	7.8	15	399	2426	19
26	Shakib Al Hasan	SRH	BAN	188	35	20	4	119	13	8	15	384	871	31
27	Robin Uthappa	KKR	IND	349	54	30	21	135.8	0	-	15	375	2667	32
28	Ishan Kishan	MI	IND	275	62	22	17	149.5	0	-	14	363	2667	20
29	Ajinkya Rahane	RR	IND	370	65	39	5	118.2	0	-	15	355	1761	30
30	Jasprit Bumrah	MI	IND	10	6	1	0	90.9	17	6.9	14	353	3096	24
31	Nitish Rana	KKR	IND	282	59	25	12	130.6	4	7.1	14	353	1504	24
32	Umesh Yadav	RCB	IND	3	1	0	0	27.3	20	7.9	14	351	1869	30
33	Karun Nair	KXI	IND	301	54	23	13	136.2	0	-	13	351	2493	26
34	Ravindra Jadeja	CSK	IND	89	27	3	4	120.3	10	7.2	15	324	3614	29
35	Ben Stokes	RR	ENG	196	45	13	6	121.7	8	8.2	13	322	6065	27
36	Dwayne Bravo	CSK	WI	141	68	8	10	154.9	13	9.8	15	322	3327	35
37	Rohit Sharma	MI	IND	286	94	25	12	133	0	-	14	317	7391	31
38	R Ashwin	KXI	IND	102	45	7	5	143.7	10	8.1	14	309	3841	32
39	Siddarth Kaul	SRH	IND	3	2	0	0	21.4	19	8	15	304	2090	28
40	Mujeeb Ur Rahman	KXI	AFG	10	10	2	0	142.9	14	7	11	296	2111	17
41	Trent Boult	DD	NZ	0	0	0	0	0	18	8.8	14	293	1171	29
42	Prithvi Shaw	DD	IND	245	65	27	10	153.1	0	-	9	293	638	18
43	Manish Pandey	SRH	IND	284	62	22	5	115.4	0	-	15	281	6551	29
44	Mandeep Singh	RCB	IND	252	47	16	11	135.5	0	-	14	272	801	26
45	Vijay Shankar	DD	IND	212	54	11	11	143.2	1	12	13	270	1852	27
46	Glenn Maxwell	DD	AUS	169	47	14	9	140.8	5	8.3	12	270	5207	29
47	Kuldeep Yadav	KKR	IND	12	7	1	0	57.1	15	8.2	15	250	3624	23
48	Mayank Markande	MI	IND	21	7	2	0	87.5	15	8.4	14	246	126	20
49	Deepak Chahar	CSK	IND	50	39	1	4	172.4	10	7.4	11	246	544	26
50	Rahul Tripathi	RR	IND	226	80	18	8	135.3	0	-	12	245	2167	27

All data in our analysis is updated after the first qualifier and the eliminator games, as on May 23, 2018.

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