Who will replace Pant as IPL MVP?

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji identify Rediff.com's Most Valuable Players in IPL-11 at the end of the league stages.

IMAGE: Rishabh Pant hits out. Photograph: BCCI

We are at the end of the league phase of IPL-11.

56 matches have been played and eight teams have been reduced to just four.

This has also meant the exit of some of IPL-11's most exciting performers.

The Delhi Daredevils' batting superstar Rishabh Pant with a tally of 684 runs at a strike rate of 174 has signed out.

It was amazing how often he used to take a tumble after playing the pull, putting his everything into the shot, and how many sixes he hit with just one hand (he hit 37 sixes in total!).

IMAGE: Rishabh Pant hits a one-handed six. Photograph: BCCI

Who could replace Pant as the most valuable player of IPL-11?

Pant's MVPI of 897 could be overtaken by Sunrisers Hyderabad Captain Kane Williamson (760) or Kolkata Knight Riders all-rounder Sunil Narine (703) or even the intrepid Ambati Rayadu (675) of the Chennai Super Kings.

Sadly, A B de Villiers (625) has gone and so has K L Rahul (839) -- who some of us think is looking like a 90% Kohli -- and his team-mate Andrew Tye (24 wickets, MVPI: 425).

Hardik Pandya, looking more like a bowling all-rounder these days, has made his exit after 260 runs and 18 wickets.

Umesh Yadav (351) has gone too, but after offering heartening evidence that he still has so much to offer India.

And goodbye Virat Kohli (600); without seeming to really fire big time, he scored 530 runs.

It is goodbye Rohit Sharma (317) too with a tinge of worry. He scored only 286 runs, and on a happier day could easily have taken the Mumbai Indians into the top four.

The table below provides all details. Look at the penultimate column that indicates how many US dollars the franchise owner had to pay per 'run' scored.

These are not batting runs; they are based on the MVPI which collapses a player's batting, bowling and fielding performance into a single 'run equivalent'.

Among the best 50 performers, the following players contributed their 'runs' for less than $1,000 per 'run': Mayank Markande (126), Ambati Rayadu (508), Kane Williamson (616), Prithvi Shaw (638), Chris Gayle (765), Mandeep Singh (801), Shakib Al Hasan (825), Suryakumar Yadav (880) and Jos Buttler (974).

Table: Best performing players in IPL-11 after the league phase

Rank	Player's Name	Team	From	Run	Top Score	4's	6's	Str Rate	W	Eco	M	MVPI	Money Offered (US $)	$ paid per 'run'	Age
1	Rishabh Pant	DD	IND	684	128	68	37	173.6	0	-	14	897	2343000	2612	21
2	KL Rahul	KXI	IND	659	95	66	32	158.4	0	-	14	839	1718000	2048	26
3	Kane Williamson	SRH	NZ	661	84	54	26	143.1	0	-	14	760	468000	616	28
4	Jos Buttler	RR	ENG	548	95	52	21	155.2	0	-	13	705	687000	974	28
5	Sunil Narine	KKR	WI	327	75	35	22	189	16	7.6	14	703	1953000	2778	30
6	Ambati Rayudu	CSK	IND	586	100	52	33	153.4	0	-	14	675	343000	508	33
7	AB de Villiers	RCB	SA	480	90	39	30	174.5	0	-	12	625	1718000	2749	34
8	Virat Kohli	RCB	IND	530	92	52	18	139.1	0	-	14	600	2656000	4427	29
9	MS Dhoni	CSK	IND	446	79	23	30	157	0	-	14	597	2343000	3925	37
10	Hardik Pandya	MI	IND	260	50	20	11	133.3	18	8.9	13	577	1718000	2977	25
11	Dinesh Karthik	KKR	IND	438	50	44	14	149.5	0	-	14	577	1156000	2003	33
12	Shane Watson	CSK	AUS	438	106	33	27	147.5	6	9	13	569	625000	1098	37
13	Suryakumar Yadav	MI	IND	512	72	61	16	133.3	0	-	14	568	500000	880	28
14	Krunal Pandya	MI	IND	228	41	22	10	145.2	12	7.1	14	533	1375000	2580	27
15	Andre Russell	KKR	WI	264	88	14	26	189.9	13	9.6	14	529	1328000	2510	30
16	Shikhar Dhawan	SRH	IND	437	92	53	12	139.6	0	-	13	502	812000	1618	32
17	Suresh Raina	CSK	IND	391	75	39	11	130.8	0	-	13	439	1718000	3913	31
18	Shreyas Iyer	DD	IND	411	93	29	21	132.6	0	-	14	433	1093000	2524	23
19	Sanju Samson	RR	IND	391	92	26	17	138.7	0	-	14	426	1250000	2934	23
20	Chris Lynn	KKR	AUS	425	74	48	16	131.2	0	-	14	426	1500000	3521	28
21	Andrew Tye	KXI	AUS	32	14	2	1	84.2	24	8	14	425	1125000	2647	31
22	Evin Lewis	MI	WI	382	65	32	24	138.4	0	-	13	416	593000	1425	26
23	Chris Gayle	KXI	WI	368	104	30	27	146	0	-	11	408	312000	765	39
24	Robin Uthappa	KKR	IND	346	54	30	21	138.4	0	-	14	379	1000000	2639	32
25	Shakib Al Hasan	SRH	BAN	176	35	18	4	118.9	13	7.9	14	378	312000	825	31
26	Ishan Kishan	MI	IND	275	62	22	17	149.5	0	-	14	363	968000	2667	20
27	Nitish Rana	KKR	IND	279	59	25	12	132.2	4	7.1	13	354	531000	1500	24
28	JaspritBumrah	MI	IND	10	6	1	0	90.9	17	6.9	14	353	1093000	3096	24
29	Umesh Yadav	RCB	IND	3	1	0	0	27.3	20	7.9	14	351	656000	1869	30
30	Karun Nair	KXI	IND	301	54	23	13	136.2	0	-	13	351	875000	2493	26
31	Rashid Khan	SRH	AFG	25	17	1	2	119	16	7.2	14	346	1406000	4064	20
32	Gowtham Krishnappa	RR	IND	117	33	8	9	205.3	9	8	14	345	968000	2806	19
33	Ben Stokes	RR	ENG	196	45	13	6	121.7	8	8.2	13	322	1953000	6065	27
34	Rohit Sharma	MI	IND	286	94	25	12	133	0	-	14	317	2343000	7391	31
35	Ajinkya Rahane	RR	IND	324	65	35	4	119.1	0	-	14	313	625000	1997	30
36	R Ashwin	KXI	IND	102	45	7	5	143.7	10	8.1	14	309	1187000	3841	32
37	Mujeeb Ur Rahman	KXI	AFG	10	10	2	0	142.9	14	7	11	296	625000	2111	17
38	Trent Boult	DD	NZ	0	0	0	0	0	18	8.8	14	293	343000	1171	29
39	Prithvi Shaw	DD	IND	245	65	27	10	153.1	0	-	9	293	187000	638	18
40	Manish Pandey	SRH	IND	276	62	22	5	120	0	-	14	286	1718000	6007	29
41	Ravindra Jadeja	CSK	IND	86	27	3	4	124.6	9	7.6	14	286	1093000	3822	29
42	Dwayne Bravo	CSK	WI	134	68	8	10	167.5	11	10.2	14	279	1000000	3584	35
43	Siddarth Kaul	SRH	IND	3	2	0	0	21.4	17	8	14	272	593000	2180	28
44	Mandeep Singh	RCB	IND	252	47	16	11	135.5	0	-	14	272	218000	801	26
45	Vijay Shankar	DD	IND	212	54	11	11	143.2	1	11.6	13	270	500000	1852	27
46	Glenn Maxwell	DD	AUS	169	47	14	9	140.8	5	8.3	12	270	1406000	5207	29
47	Mayank Markande	MI	IND	21	7	2	0	87.5	15	8.4	14	246	31000	126	20
48	Quinton de Kock	RCB	SA	201	53	20	8	124.1	0	-	8	234	437000	1868	25
49	Yuzvendra Chahal	RCB	IND	0	0	0	0	0	12	7.3	14	232	937000	4039	28
50	Yusuf Pathan	SRH	IND	188	45	15	9	135.3	1	7	12	229	296000	1293	35

All data in our analysis is updated after the end of the IPL league phase on May 20, 2018.

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