It was India's players all the way, with Jasprit Bumrah emerging the most valuable, ahead of K L Rahul.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Player Index after the just-concluded ODI series between India and Zimbabwe.
It would be hard to recall a more one-sided One-Day International series in recent times than the just-concluded one between Zimbabwe and India.
India's players grabbed all the top ranks in the MVPI table, with Jasprit Bumrah (MVPI 287) topping the table ahead of K L Rahul (224).
The MVPI formula picks out batsmen who score a lot of runs at a high strike rate, bowlers who take a lot of wickets at a low economy rate, and fielders who take the most catches or participate in run outs. MVPI expresses a player’s overall batting + bowling + fielding performance in terms of a ‘run equivalent’.
Five of the top six places have been taken by Indian bowlers.
For Zimbabwe only Chamu Chibhabha (70) and Vusi Sibanda (58) offered a semblance of resistance.
Table 1: Most valuable players in the Zimbabwe - India series (Jun 11-15, 2016)
| Rank | Player | Team | Runs | 4's | 6's | Str Rate | W | Eco | M | MVPI |
| 1 | Jasprit Bumrah | IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 9 | 3 | 3 | 287 |
| 2 | Lokesh Rahul | IND | 196 | 15 | 3 | 83.4 | 0 | - | 3 | 224 |
| 3 | Yuzvendra Chahal | IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 6 | 3.2 | 3 | 198 |
| 4 | Dhawal Kulkarni | IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 5 | 3.6 | 3 | 187 |
| 5 | Axar Patel | IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 3 | 2.3 | 3 | 149 |
| 6 | Barinder Sran | IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 4 | 4.1 | 3 | 121 |
| 7 | Ambati Rayudu | IND | 103 | 12 | 0 | 62.8 | 0 | - | 3 | 74 |
| 8 | Chamu Chibhabha | ZIM | 61 | 4 | 0 | 45.5 | 1 | 3.2 | 3 | 70 |
| 9 | Faiz Fazal | IND | 55 | 7 | 1 | 90.2 | 0 | - | 1 | 64 |
| 10 | Vusi Sibanda | ZIM | 96 | 8 | 2 | 59.6 | 0 | - | 3 | 58 |
| 11 | Tendai Chatara | ZIM | 6 | 0 | 0 | 37.5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 39 |
| 12 | Sikandar Raza | ZIM | 39 | 3 | 0 | 41.1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 36 |
| 13 | MS Dhoni | IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | 3 | 33 |
| 14 | Karun Nair | IND | 46 | 6 | 0 | 52.3 | 0 | - | 2 | 19 |
| 15 | Taurai Muzarabani | ZIM | 6 | 1 | 0 | 54.5 | 0 | 3.4 | 2 | 17 |
| 16 | Manish Pandey | IND | 4 | 1 | 0 | 400 | 0 | - | 3 | 12 |
| 17 | Kedar Jadhav | IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | 3 | 10 |
| 18 | Timycen Maruma | ZIM | 17 | 1 | 0 | 58.6 | 0 | - | 1 | 10 |
| 19 | Hamilton Masakadza | ZIM | 31 | 4 | 0 | 55.4 | 0 | 7.6 | 3 | 9 |
| 20 | Craig Ervine | ZIM | 21 | 1 | 0 | 46.7 | 0 | - | 1 | 5 |
| 21 | Richmond Mutumbami | ZIM | 21 | 3 | 0 | 47.7 | 0 | - | 3 | 5 |
| 22 | Malcolm Waller | ZIM | 8 | 0 | 0 | 53.3 | 0 | - | 1 | 4 |
| 23 | Graeme Cremer | ZIM | 15 | 1 | 0 | 55.6 | 0 | 5.3 | 3 | 3 |
| 24 | Elton Chigumbura | ZIM | 41 | 1 | 0 | 61.2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 2 |
| 25 | Donald Tiripano | ZIM | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 26 | Sean Williams | ZIM | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | Neville Madziva | ZIM | 10 | 0 | 0 | 38.5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | -2 |
| 28 | Peter Moor | ZIM | 4 | 0 | 0 | 28.6 | 0 | - | 2 | -4 |
| 29 | Tawanda Mupariwa | ZIM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11.1 | 0 | 8.6 | 1 | -24 |
Runs (scored) ' No of 4s ' No of 6s ' Strike rate ' W: Wickets taken ' Eco: Economy rate ' M: Matches played ' MVPI: 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.
