It's hardly a surprise that players from the teams reaching the semi-finals have grabbed most of the places in the list of the 50 most valuable players of the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 at this stage.
The top twenty includes only three players who won't play the semi-finals: Yuvraj Singh (8), Kevin Pietersen (12) and Brendon McCullum (17).
Dwayne Bravo is currently the most valuable player because of his splendid all-round display. Three Pakistani bowlers figure in the top ten, suggesting that Pakistan is up there chiefly because of its bowlers.
| Rank | Player | Team | Runs | Four | Six | Str | W | Eco | M | MVPI | Age |
| 1 | Dwayne Bravo | WI | 154 | 12 | 6 | 148.1 | 8 | 8.4 | 5 | 317 | 25 |
| 2 | Tillakaratne Dilshan | SL | 221 | 34 | 1 | 140.8 | 0 | 11.0 | 5 | 294 | 32 |
| 3 | Lendl Simmons | WI | 150 | 22 | 1 | 140.2 | 6 | 9.2 | 4 | 282 | 24 |
| 4 | AB de Villiers | SA | 185 | 16 | 6 | 160.9 | 0 | -- | 5 | 261 | 25 |
| 5 | Jacques Kallis | SA | 174 | 21 | 3 | 129.9 | 3 | 7.1 | 4 | 256 | 33 |
| 6 | Umar Gul | PAK | 17 | 1 | 1 | 170.0 | 12 | 6.3 | 5 | 254 | 25 |
| 7 | Shahid Afridi | PAK | 47 | 4 | 1 | 130.6 | 8 | 5.7 | 5 | 239 | 29 |
| 8 | Yuvraj Singh | IND | 153 | 10 | 9 | 154.5 | 1 | 7.0 | 5 | 233 | 27 |
| 9 | Saeed Ajmal | PAK | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 11 | 5.6 | 5 | 220 | 31 |
| 10 | Ajantha Mendis | SL | 4 | 1 | 0 | 400.0 | 10 | 5.6 | 5 | 212 | 24 |
| 11 | Roelof van der Merwe | SA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11.1 | 9 | 5.3 | 5 | 200 | 24 |
| 12 | Kevin Pietersen | ENG | 154 | 19 | 4 | 152.5 | 0 | 9.0 | 4 | 199 | 29 |
| 13 | Lasith Malinga | SL | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 11 | 7.5 | 5 | 195 | 25 |
| 14 | Chris Gayle | WI | 130 | 13 | 6 | 138.3 | 1 | 6.4 | 4 | 194 | 29 |
| 15 | Younis Khan | PAK | 142 | 10 | 3 | 147.9 | 0 | -- | 5 | 188 | 31 |
| 16 | Wayne Parnell | SA | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 8 | 5.5 | 5 | 178 | 19 |
| 17 | Brendon McCullum | NZ | 107 | 14 | 1 | 115.1 | 0 | -- | 5 | 170 | 27 |
| 18 | Sanath Jayasuriya | SL | 136 | 17 | 4 | 128.3 | 1 | 9.4 | 5 | 170 | 39 |
| 19 | Mahela Jayawardene | SL | 151 | 17 | 2 | 126.9 | 0 | -- | 5 | 168 | 32 |
| 20 | Kamran Akmal | PAK | 128 | 9 | 4 | 116.4 | 0 | -- | 5 | 166 | 27 |
| 21 | Dale Steyn | SA | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 8 | 6.5 | 5 | 163 | 26 |
| 22 | Kyle McCallan | IRL | 11 | 1 | 0 | 73.3 | 8 | 7.0 | 5 | 162 | 33 |
| 23 | Stuart Broad | ENG | 22 | 2 | 1 | 200.0 | 6 | 6.5 | 5 | 161 | 23 |
| 24 | Luke Wright | ENG | 113 | 15 | 1 | 134.5 | 1 | 8.3 | 5 | 161 | 24 |
| 25 | Johan Botha | SA | 10 | 3 | 0 | 166.7 | 6 | 5.6 | 5 | 160 | 27 |
| 26 | Alex Cusack | IRL | 36 | 3 | 1 | 156.5 | 8 | 9.0 | 5 | 157 | 28 |
| 27 | Graeme Smith | SA | 139 | 20 | 1 | 113.0 | 0 | -- | 5 | 156 | 28 |
| 28 | Rohit Sharma | IND | 131 | 12 | 3 | 122.4 | 1 | 7.5 | 5 | 154 | 22 |
| 29 | Harbhajan Singh | IND | 27 | 4 | 1 | 142.1 | 5 | 6.6 | 5 | 152 | 29 |
| 30 | A Redmond | NZ | 101 | 18 | 1 | 177.2 | 0 | -- | 3 | 146 | |
| 31 | Gautam Gambhir | IND | 148 | 16 | 1 | 109.6 | 0 | -- | 5 | 138 | 27 |
| 32 | Muttiah Muralitharan | SL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 5.5 | 5 | 138 | 37 |
| 33 | Kumar Sangakkara | SL | 113 | 8 | 2 | 103.7 | 0 | -- | 5 | 137 | 31 |
| 34 | Pragyan Ojha | IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 7 | 6.2 | 3 | 136 | 22 |
| 35 | Martin Guptill | NZ | 102 | 6 | 5 | 129.1 | 0 | -- | 5 | 135 | 22 |
| 36 | Trent Johnston | IRL | 23 | 0 | 2 | 143.8 | 6 | 7.9 | 4 | 135 | 35 |
| 37 | Ravi Bopara | ENG | 145 | 14 | 1 | 112.4 | 0 | -- | 5 | 134 | 24 |
| 38 | Yusuf Pathan | IND | 65 | 4 | 3 | 151.2 | 2 | 7.6 | 5 | 130 | 26 |
| 39 | Scott Styris | NZ | 81 | 1 | 4 | 119.1 | 2 | 8.0 | 5 | 128 | 33 |
| 40 | Kyle Coetzer | SCO | 75 | 4 | 5 | 159.6 | 0 | -- | 2 | 117 | 25 |
| 41 | Herschelle Gibbs | SA | 109 | 11 | 2 | 122.5 | 0 | -- | 5 | 114 | 35 |
| 42 | Zaheer Khan | IND | 4 | 0 | 0 | 133.3 | 7 | 8.4 | 5 | 114 | 30 |
| 43 | Nathan McCullum | NZ | 9 | 1 | 0 | 60.0 | 5 | 5.3 | 5 | 111 | 28 |
| 44 | Niall O'Brien | IRL | 81 | 8 | 3 | 106.6 | 0 | -- | 4 | 107 | 27 |
| 45 | Shoaib Malik | PAK | 86 | 9 | 0 | 110.3 | 1 | 7.9 | 5 | 106 | 27 |
| 46 | Owais Shah | ENG | 106 | 8 | 4 | 108.2 | 0 | -- | 5 | 105 | 30 |
| 47 | Graeme Swann | ENG | 15 | 0 | 0 | 93.8 | 5 | 6.9 | 4 | 104 | 30 |
| 48 | Mashrafe Mortaza | BAN | 44 | 1 | 3 | 183.3 | 2 | 7.4 | 2 | 100 | 25 |
| 49 | Ian Butler | NZ | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 6 | 7.5 | 5 | 100 | 27 |
| 50 | Kyle Mills | NZ | 4 | 1 | 0 | 57.1 | 5 | 7.8 | 4 | 98 | 30 |
There are almost as many Irishmen as Indians in the top 50 list; and some of India's best players like M S Dhoni, Irfan Pathan, Suresh Raina and Ishant Sharma don't even make it to the top 50!
Srinivas Bhogle works for TEOCO Software Pvt Ltd. Purnendu Maji carried out the statistical analysis.
