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Afridi emerges the Most Valuable Player

Last updated on: June 23, 2009 16:57 IST

It was always going to be a toss-up between Tillakaratne Dilshan and Shahid Afridi. Dilshan's duck, and another brilliant allround performance by Afridi, tilted the scales in favour of the phenomenally talented player from Pakistan.

The table below ranks the top 100 players in the ICC World Twenty20 2009. The ranking is based on the MVP index (MVPI) which expresses every player's combined batting, bowling and fielding performance in terms of 'runs'.

Rank Player Team Runs Six Four Strike Rate W Eco M MVPI
1 Shahid Afridi PAK 176 3 14 140.8 11 5.3 7 470
2 Tillakaratne Dilshan SL 317 3 46 145.4 0 11.0 7 420
3 Dwayne Bravo WI 154 6 12 145.3 10 8.8 6 339
4 Jacques Kallis SA 238 4 28 126.6 3 7.1 5 323
5 Lendl Simmons WI 150 1 22 137.6 6 9.2 5 280
6 Umar Gul PAK 17 1 1 170.0 13 6.4 7 274
7 Ajantha Mendis SL 4 0 1 400.0 12 5.5 7 265
8 AB de Villiers SA 186 6 16 155.0 0 -- 6 260
9 Chris Gayle WI 193 8 21 134.0 1 7.8 5 254
10 Saeed Ajmal PAK 0 0 0 -- 12 5.8 7 253
11 Kamran Akmal PAK 188 7 15 125.3 0 -- 7 241
12 Yuvraj Singh IND 153 9 10 154.5 1 7.0 5 233
13 Angelo Mathews SL 75 2 6 153.1 5 6.3 7 226
14 Sanath Jayasuriya SL 177 5 22 115.7 2 8.5 7 224
15 Lasith Malinga SL 3 0 0 100.0 12 7.1 7 224
16 Roelof v d Merwe SA 1 0 0 11.1 10 5.6 6 223
17 Younis Khan PAK 172 3 11 139.8 0 -- 7 213
18 Muttiah Muralitharan SL 0 0 0 0.0 9 5.9 7 209
19 Kumar Sangakkara SL 177 2 15 108.6 0 -- 7 208
20 Wayne Parnell SA 0 0 0 -- 9 5.7 6 200
21 Kevin Pietersen ENG 154 4 19 152.5 0 9.0 4 199
22 Dale Steyn SA 0 0 0 -- 9 6.6 6 183
23 Brendon McCullum NZ 107 1 14 115.1 0 -- 5 170
24 Mahela Jayawardene SL 154 2 17 122.2 0 -- 7 169
25 Kyle McCallan IRL 11 0 1 73.3 8 7.0 5 162
26 Stuart Broad ENG 22 1 2 200.0 6 6.5 5 161
27 Luke Wright ENG 113 1 15 134.5 1 8.3 5 161
28 Graeme Smith SA 149 1 21 108.8 0 -- 6 158
29 Alex Cusack IRL 36 1 3 156.5 8 9.0 5 157
30 Johan Botha SA 10 0 3 166.7 6 6.2 6 157
31 Rohit Sharma IND 131 3 12 122.4 1 7.5 5 154
32 Harbhajan Singh IND 27 1 4 142.1 5 6.6 5 152
33 Shoaib Malik PAK 144 0 12 103.6 1 7.6 7 151
34 A Redmond NZ 101 1 18 177.2 0 -- 3 146
35 Gautam Gambhir IND 148 1 16 109.6 0 -- 5 138
36 Pragyan Ojha IND 0 0 0 -- 7 6.2 3 136
37 Martin Guptill NZ 102 5 6 129.1 0 -- 5 135
38 Trent Johnston IRL 23 2 0 143.8 6 7.9 4 135
39 Ravi Bopara ENG 145 1 14 112.4 0 -- 5 134
40 Jean-Paul Duminy SA 85 2 2 103.7 3 6.6 6 134
41 Yusuf Pathan IND 65 3 4 151.2 2 7.6 5 130
42 Abdul Razzaq PAK 32 1 0 100.0 4 5.9 4 129
43 Scott Styris NZ 81 4 1 119.1 2 8.0 5 128
44 Mohammad Aamer PAK 0 0 0 -- 6 7.3 7 121
45 Herschelle Gibbs SA 114 2 12 122.6 0 -- 6 120
46 Kyle Coetzer SCO 75 5 4 159.6 0 -- 2 117
47 Zaheer Khan IND 4 0 0 133.3 7 8.4 5 114
48 Nathan McCullum NZ 9 0 1 60.0 5 5.3 5 111
49 Niall O'Brien IRL 81 3 8 106.6 0 -- 4 107
50 Owais Shah ENG 106 4 8 108.2 0 -- 5 105
51 Graeme Swann ENG 15 0 0 93.8 5 6.9 4 104
52 Mashrafe Mortaza BAN 44 3 1 183.3 2 7.4 2 100
53 Ian Butler NZ 3 0 0 100.0 6 7.5 5 100
54 Jerome Taylor WI 2 0 0 66.7 7 8.8 6 98
55 Kyle Mills NZ 4 0 1 57.1 5 7.8 4 98
56 Kieron Pollard WI 37 1 4 119.4 4 9.4 6 97
57 Andre Fletcher WI 66 2 8 124.5 0 -- 5 93
58 Ravindra Jadeja IND 32 0 1 78.0 3 5.0 2 91
59 MS Dhoni IND 86 1 4 96.6 0 -- 5 87
60 Misbah-ul-Haq PAK 82 2 4 117.1 0 -- 7 87
61 James Anderson ENG 0 0 0 0.0 5 7.6 5 86
62 Shahzaib Hasan PAK 77 3 10 106.9 0 -- 4 86
63 Sulieman Benn WI 13 0 2 100.0 3 7.4 5 86
64 Albie Morkel SA 30 0 3 100.0 3 7.8 6 85
65 Boyd Rankin IRL 5 0 0 100.0 3 6.4 4 85
66 Fidel Edwards WI 2 0 0 100.0 6 9.2 4 84
67 Junaid Siddique BAN 54 3 5 200.0 0 -- 2 83
68 Paul Collingwood ENG 63 0 6 114.5 1 8.5 5 82
69 Mitchell Johnson AUS 37 2 3 185.0 2 9.1 2 80
70 David Warner AUS 63 1 6 112.5 1 -- 2 79
71 John Mooney IRL 81 0 8 102.5 0 -- 5 77
72 Kevin O'Brien IRL 69 2 5 123.2 0 8.1 5 75
73 Ryan ten Doeschate NRL 36 1 2 133.3 3 9.6 2 75
74 Ryan Watson SCO 31 0 7 221.4 2 10.0 2 74
75 Dimitri Mascarenhas ENG 42 0 3 100.0 2 6.4 3 74
76 William Porterfield IRL 100 0 10 97.1 0 -- 5 73
77 Naeem Islam BAN 35 3 0 134.6 2 8.2 2 72
78 Jehan Mubarak SL 56 2 4 116.7 0 -- 7 72
79 Chamara Silva SL 68 0 9 95.8 0 -- 7 70
80 Ramnaresh Sarwan WI 68 0 5 113.3 0 -- 6 69
81 Tom de Grooth NRL 53 1 6 143.2 0 -- 2 69
82 Peter Borren NRL 32 1 1 110.3 2 8.1 2 67
83 David Hussey AUS 55 5 1 144.7 0 16.0 2 66
84 Regan West IRL 11 0 1 100.0 3 7.5 5 66
85 Jacob Oram NZ 59 1 4 109.3 0 7.6 5 65
86 Mark Boucher SA 36 1 1 100.0 0 -- 6 59
87 Ryan Sidebottom ENG 0 0 0 -- 3 7.4 3 58
88 James Foster ENG 37 1 0 115.6 0 -- 5 57
89 Isuru Udana SL 1 0 0 20.0 5 9.1 5 55
90 Daniel Vettori NZ 11 0 1 78.6 3 7.5 2 55
91 Shakib Al Hasan BAN 15 0 1 88.2 2 6.7 2 53
92 Ross Taylor NZ 51 2 4 104.1 0 -- 3 53
93 Adil Rashid ENG 9 0 0 52.9 3 7.3 4 52
94 Andre Botha IRL 36 0 6 156.5 0 -- 3 51
95 Peter McGlashan NZ 15 0 1 93.8 0 -- 5 50
96 Andrew White IRL 56 2 4 105.7 0 -- 3 49
97 Salman Butt PAK 46 1 7 117.9 0 -- 3 49
98 Darron Reekers NRL 33 2 4 173.7 0 -- 2 49
99 Pieter Seelaar NRL 1 0 0 50.0 3 8.6 2 46
100 Irfan Pathan IND 13 1 1 216.7 1 7.3 3 46

Srinivas Bhogle works for TEOCO Software Pvt Ltd. Purnendu Maji carried out the statistical analysis.

Srinivas Bhogle