Kohli jumps to second spot in MVP list

After playing one of the greatest Twenty20 knocks against Australia on Sunday, taking India into the World T20 semi-finals, it is no surprise that Virat Kohli (MVPI 206) has jumped to the second place in the MVP rankings.

Kohli is second to South African Quinton de Kock, and now that the Proteas are out of the competition, his only rivals for that spot can now be Joe Root (203) and Chris Gayle (185), with Mitchell Santner (183) and Martin Guptill (178) outsiders in the race.

It is still hard to find other Indians on the table: Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (119) is the next best after Kohli, placed 32nd (not enough batting opportunities, and because the index has no points for captaincy).

Suresh Raina (106) and Ravindra Jadeja (103) find themselves in the low 30s.

The list has been dragged down to the top 100 to allow Shikhar Dhawan (37) to sneak in at the 98th place, but there's still no place in the top 100 for Rohit Sharma!

Kohli's batting, Dhoni's captaincy, and some decent bowling by Ashish Nehra, R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja all mask the fact that only 5 or 6 Indians are truly performing (no wonder Dhoni talks of only 60% capability utilization!) and the openers are hugely under-performing.

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Players ratings.

IMAGE: Virat Kohli celebrates after the game against Australia in Mohali, march 27, 2016. Photograph: PTI

Rank	Player	Team	Runs	4s	6s	Strike Rate	W	Economy	M	MVPI
1	Quinton de Kock	South Africa	153	18	6	143	0	-	4	212
2	Virat Kohli	India	184	18	4	132.4	0	-	4	206
3	Joe Root	England	168	14	7	150	0	13	4	203
4	Shane Watson	Australia	96	9	4	150	5	7.4	4	197
5	Chris Gayle	West Indies	104	6	11	208	2	5.7	3	185
6	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	90	7	7	183.7	4	7.4	4	184
7	Mitchell Santner	New Zealand	22	2	0	104.8	9	5.7	4	183
8	Martin Guptill	New Zealand	125	12	8	162.3	0	-	3	178
9	Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh	107	8	4	124.4	4	7.6	4	177
10	Mohammad Nabi	Afghanistan	35	4	1	97.2	6	6.4	4	174
11	Ish Sodhi	New Zealand	0	0	0	-	8	5	4	164
12	Usman Khawaja	Australia	143	22	2	137.5	0	-	4	164
13	Glenn Maxwell	Australia	109	8	4	129.8	2	7.6	4	162
14	Andre Russell	West Indies	47	5	1	114.6	7	7.6	4	162
15	A B de Villiers	South Africa	110	5	9	180.3	0	-	4	155
16	Dwayne Bravo	West Indies	38	2	1	97.4	6	6.8	4	151
17	Jos Buttler	England	123	10	6	151.9	0	-	4	149
18	Mustafizur Rahman	Bangladesh	6	0	1	200	9	7.2	3	147
19	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	133	13	5	123.1	0	-	4	146
20	James Faulkner	Australia	17	2	0	100	8	8.1	4	134
21	Thisara Perera	Sri Lanka	80	6	4	145.5	3	10.3	4	132
22	Sharjeel Khan	Pakistan	112	18	3	143.6	0	-	4	131
23	Samiullah Shenwari	Afghanistan	79	7	2	136.2	1	5.8	4	130
24	Hashim Amla	South Africa	120	13	4	134.8	0	-	4	129
25	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka	114	6	6	118.8	1	6.9	3	128
26	Imran Tahir	South Africa	0	0	0	-	6	5.2	4	127
27	Samuel Badree	West Indies	2	0	0	100	6	5.5	4	126
28	Shoaib Malik	Pakistan	96	7	3	165.5	0	9	4	126
29	Rashid Khan	Afghanistan	32	3	2	114.3	5	7.6	4	126
30	Mohammad Shahzad	Afghanistan	80	7	6	142.9	0	-	4	124
31	Grant Elliott	New Zealand	46	4	0	115	3	5.4	4	120
32	M S Dhoni	India	74	5	2	121.3	0	-	4	119
33	Jason Roy	England	105	11	5	136.4	0	-	4	118
34	Jean-Paul Duminy	South Africa	83	5	4	172.9	1	10.3	2	117
35	Andre Fletcher	West Indies	106	8	6	120.5	0	-	3	110
36	David Willey	England	20	0	2	117.6	6	8.1	4	107
37	Suresh Raina	India	41	2	2	124.2	3	4.8	4	106
38	Ravindra Jadeja	India	12	2	0	109.1	4	5.9	4	103
39	Faf du Plessis	South Africa	98	11	2	112.6	0	-	4	103
40	Chris Jordan	England	20	3	0	95.2	5	8.5	4	100
41	Najibullah Zadran	Afghanistan	86	7	4	141	0	-	4	100
42	Sabbir Rahman	Bangladesh	75	11	1	108.7	1	5.5	4	98
43	Kyle Abbott	South Africa	0	0	0	-	7	8.1	3	98
44	Moeen Ali	England	56	5	2	124.4	4	10.1	4	96
45	Adam Zampa	Australia	2	0	0	200	5	6.3	4	91
46	Ahmed Shehzad	Pakistan	108	14	0	102.9	0	-	4	89
47	Mahmudullah	Bangladesh	76	8	1	118.8	1	9.4	4	86
48	Ashish Nehra	India	0	0	0	0	4	5.9	4	86
49	Ross Taylor	New Zealand	85	5	3	118.1	0	-	4	84
50	Kane Williamson	New Zealand	91	11	1	102.2	0	3	4	83
51	Corey Anderson	New Zealand	58	6	0	89.2	2	6.2	4	83
52	David Miller	South Africa	48	4	3	200	0	-	4	82
53	Luke Ronchi	New Zealand	47	3	2	156.7	0	-	4	81
54	Steven Smith	Australia	83	8	1	120.3	0	-	4	80
55	Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan	69	7	2	146.8	0	-	2	79
56	Hardik Pandya	India	16	2	1	114.3	5	10	4	77
57	Eoin Morgan	England	61	2	3	132.6	0	-	4	77
58	Sulieman Benn	West Indies	0	0	0	-	2	4.9	4	77
59	Asghar Stanikzai	Afghanistan	86	3	6	108.9	0	-	4	77
60	Umar Akmal	Pakistan	78	4	2	121.9	0	-	4	76
61	Chris Morris	South Africa	16	2	0	94.1	5	8.9	3	74
62	Nathan McCullum	New Zealand	0	0	0	0	3	4.2	2	72
63	Ben Stokes	England	43	4	3	172	1	9.3	4	71
64	Colin Munro	New Zealand	72	4	3	101.4	0	-	4	70
65	Marlon Samuels	West Indies	88	15	0	100	0	-	4	70
66	Ravichandran Ashwin	India	15	1	0	68.2	4	7.3	4	69
67	Jeffrey Vandersay	Sri Lanka	3	0	0	37.5	3	5.2	3	69
68	Mitchell McClenaghan	New Zealand	6	0	1	600	4	7.9	3	68
69	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka	6	0	0	60	3	6.2	4	66
70	Adam Milne	New Zealand	2	0	0	100	3	6.9	3	63
71	Aaron Phangiso	South Africa	4	0	0	80	3	5.6	2	62
72	Peter Nevill	Australia	18	1	2	360	0	-	4	60
73	Yuvraj Singh	India	52	2	2	100	1	6.3	4	58
74	Alex Hales	England	45	8	0	121.6	0	-	3	56
75	David Wiese	South Africa	28	2	0	107.7	1	8.2	3	55
76	Aaron Finch	Australia	58	4	2	116	0	-	2	54
77	Johnson Charles	West Indies	64	4	3	98.5	0	-	4	54
78	Al-Amin Hossain	Bangladesh	0	0	0	0	5	9.3	4	53
79	Denesh Ramdin	West Indies	36	1	0	69.2	0	-	4	53
80	Imad Wasim	Pakistan	0	0	0	0	3	7	3	53
81	Jasprit Bumrah	India	0	0	0	0	3	6.9	4	52
82	Mohammad Sami	Pakistan	4	1	0	200	4	9.3	3	52
83	Dinesh Chandimal	Sri Lanka	56	5	3	96.6	0	-	4	52
84	Mushfiqur Rahim	Bangladesh	44	7	0	110	0	-	4	50
85	Tamim Iqbal	Bangladesh	62	5	2	103.3	0	-	3	49
86	Shuvagata Hom	Bangladesh	29	3	1	103.6	1	6.6	3	49
87	Shafiqullah	Afghanistan	44	4	2	141.9	0	-	3	49
88	Adil Rashid	England	0	0	0	-	4	9.5	4	47
89	Amir Hamza	Afghanistan	4	0	0	50	3	7.2	3	47
90	Noor Ali Zadran	Afghanistan	62	4	1	93.9	0	-	3	46
91	Mohammad Amir	Pakistan	0	0	0	-	3	7.9	4	44
92	Mitchell Marsh	Australia	30	1	2	103.4	1	7.6	2	42
93	Farhaan Behardien	South Africa	0	0	0	-	2	5	1	42
94	Khalid Latif	Pakistan	49	4	1	102.1	0	-	2	42
95	Liam Plunkett	England	0	0	0	-	1	4.4	2	40
96	Milinda Siriwardana	Sri Lanka	22	2	1	110	2	9	4	39
97	Kagiso Rabada	South Africa	0	0	0	-	5	10.7	3	38
98	Shikhar Dhawan	India	43	4	2	82.7	0	-	4	37
99	Wahab Riaz	Pakistan	0	0	0	0	3	8.2	3	37
100	Gulbadin Naib	Afghanistan	34	3	1	91.9	1	10.5	3	37