Will Pandya be IPL-12's most MVP?

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji identify the 60 Most Valuable Players in the IPL so far.

IMAGE: Hardik Pandya of the Mumbai Indians has been in rampaging form in IPL-12. Photograph: BCCI

Among the top six in the MVPI list after the league stage, only Hardik Pandya is still in play and will get to play two, or perhaps three, more games.

Pandya has an MVPI average of 51 per game and is 122 MVP points behind Andre Russell who is now out of the IPL.

Hardik has about an even chance to be this year's most valuable player at the IPL.

Recall that the Most Valuable Player Index (MVPI) tries to encapsulate the cricketers's performances in terms of a 'run equivalent'.

The table below gives the MVPI details, and all the other key IPL performance variables.

Table: Best performing players so far at IPL 12 (after Match 56 ending May 5, 2019)

Rank	Player's Name	Team	From	Run	Top Score	4s	6s	Strike Rate	Wickets	Economy	Games	MVPI	PVI(US$)
1	Andre Russell	KKR	WI	510	80	31	52	205	11	9.5	14	834	1456
2	David Warner	SRH	AUS	692	100	57	21	144	0	-	12	751	2378
3	Hardik Pandya	MI	IND	373	91	26	28	197	14	9.5	14	712	2207
4	KL Rahul	KXI	IND	593	100	49	25	135	0	-	14	638	2463
5	Jonny Bairstow	SRH	ENG	445	114	48	18	157	0	-	10	573	548
6	Chris Gayle	KXI	WI	490	99	45	34	154	0	-	13	555	515
7	Rishabh Pant	DC	IND	401	78	33	21	155	0	-	14	554	3868
8	Quinton de Kock	MI	SA	492	81	43	21	133	0	-	14	552	725
9	Shikhar Dhawan	DC	IND	486	97	58	11	137	0	-	14	544	1366
10	AB de Villiers	RCB	SA	442	82	31	26	154	0	-	13	525	2993
11	Virat Kohli	RCB	IND	464	100	46	13	142	0	-	14	519	4679
12	Kagiso Rabada	DC	WI	14	9	0	1	93.3	25	7.8	12	493	145
13	MS Dhoni	CSK	IND	368	84	21	20	140	0	-	12	453	4730
14	Shreyas Iyer	DC	IND	442	67	39	14	124	0	-	14	451	2217
15	Parthiv Patel	RCB	IND	373	67	48	10	139	0	-	14	445	546
16	Shreyas Gopal	RR	IND	63	19	8	1	137	20	7.2	14	442	65
17	Imran Tahir	CSK	SA	0	0	0	0	-	21	6.5	14	432	331
18	Ajinkya Rahane	RR	IND	393	105	45	9	138	0	-	14	430	1329
19	Nitish Rana	KKR	IND	344	85	27	21	146	3	9	14	427	1138
20	Chris Lynn	KKR	AUS	405	82	41	22	140	0	-	13	427	3212
21	Rohit Sharma	MI	IND	386	67	50	9	129	0	-	13	405	5291
22	Ravindra Jadeja	CSK	IND	101	31	7	4	122	13	6.4	13	405	2469
23	Moeen Ali	RCB	ENG	220	66	16	17	165	6	6.8	11	402	604
24	Sanju Samson	RR	IND	342	102	28	13	149	0	-	12	397	2879
25	R Ashwin	KXI	IND	42	17	3	3	150	15	7.3	14	391	2777
26	Rashid Khan	SRH	AFG	34	17	2	2	155	15	6.5	14	389	3305
27	Mayank Agarwal	KXI	IND	332	58	26	14	142	0	-	13	388	368
28	Jos Buttler	RR	ENG	311	89	38	14	152	0	-	8	381	1650
29	Krunal Pandya	MI	IND	176	42	18	5	124	10	7.1	14	380	3308
30	Suryakumar Yadav	MI	IND	338	59	34	10	134	0	-	14	375	1219
31	Suresh Raina	CSK	IND	359	59	44	9	128	0	6	14	375	4190
32	Jasprit Bumrah	MI	IND	0	0	0	0	0	17	6.8	14	360	2778
33	Manish Pandey	SRH	IND	314	83	31	6	138	0	-	11	353	4452
34	Sunil Narine	KKR	WI	143	47	17	9	166	10	7.8	12	347	5146
35	Jofra Archer	RR	WI	67	27	4	4	168	11	6.8	11	338	3043
36	Axar Patel	DC	IND	107	26	10	3	135	9	7	12	324	2205
37	Faf du Plessis	CSK	SA	314	96	25	13	122	0	-	9	324	705
38	Kieron Pollard	MI	WI	238	83	11	19	156	0	-	14	320	2411
39	Prithvi Shaw	DC	IND	292	99	38	7	133	0	-	14	315	544
40	Dinesh Karthik	KKR	IND	253	97	22	14	146	0	-	14	311	3399
41	Shubman Gill	KKR	IND	296	76	21	10	124	0	-	14	303	849
42	Yuzvendra Chahal	RCB	IND	6	4	0	0	37.5	18	7.8	14	299	2867
43	Mohammed Shami	KXI	IND	1	1	0	0	50	19	8.7	14	294	2332
44	Deepak Chahar	CSK	IND	7	7	1	0	77.8	16	7.5	14	292	391
45	Mohammad Nabi	SRH	AFG	95	31	5	6	151	8	6.6	7	286	500
46	Steven Smith	RR	WI	319	73	30	4	116	0	-	12	283	6310
47	Shane Watson	CSK	AUS	258	96	29	12	124	0	-	14	275	2078
48	Vijay Shankar	SRH	IND	219	40	9	10	120	1	8.8	14	269	1699
49	Khaleel Ahmed	SRH	IND	0	0	0	0	0	17	8.2	8	264	1623
50	Robin Uthappa	KKR	IND	282	67	28	10	115	0	-	12	261	3503
51	Harbhajan Singh	CSK	IND	1	1	0	0	33.3	13	7.2	8	257	1112
52	Marcus Stoinis	RCB	AUS	211	46	14	10	135	2	8.7	10	242	3660
53	Sam Curran	KXI	ENG	95	55	13	3	173	10	9.8	9	242	4250
54	David Miller	KXI	SA	213	59	19	7	130	0	-	10	235	1824
55	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	SRH	IND	12	7	1	0	63.2	11	7.6	14	220	5519
56	Rahul Chahar	MI	IND	12	10	2	0	133	10	7.2	11	216	1257
57	Dwayne Bravo	CSK	WI	65	27	6	2	130	9	8.4	9	206	4438
58	Nicholas Pooran	KXI	WI	168	48	9	14	157	0	-	7	205	2927
59	Sandeep Sharma	SRH	IND	6	5	1	0	200	12	8.3	11	197	2175
60	Chris Morris	DC	SA	32	17	1	2	86.5	13	9.3	9	197	7977

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