As the long and arduous Commonwealth Bank Series nears its end, Nathan Bracken [Images] leads the list of the most valuable players (MVP). Bracken has taken the largest number of wickets, and at an excellent economy rate.

Gautam Gambhir [Images] is India's highest ranked player on the list, and could well have been at the top if he hadn't been needlessly run out in the first final at Sydney.

Australia's James Hopes is surprisingly fourth in the list with a consistent all-round display.

The most likely winner of the MVP crown, and the overwhelming favourite for the "man of the series" award, is however Adam Gilchrist [Images]. A look at Table 1 indicates that Gilchrist and Mahendra Singh Dhoni [Images] have very similar totals; only Gilchrist has scored his runs at a much faster rate.

Table 1: The most valuable players in the Commonwealth Bank series (13 matches so far)

After his match-winning century, Sachin Tendulkar is almost certain to be India's most valuable player of the 2007-08 ODI season; at most a couple of games remain before the season draws to a close and even Yuvraj Singh in his best form would have found it hard to overtake the peerless batting master.

Table 2: India's most valuable players of the 2007-08 season (35 matches so far)

Rank	Player	Runs	Balls	batpts	Rc	Bb	W	bwlpts	Ct|St	Run Outs	fldpts	M	Total
1	Sachin Tendulkar	1423	1699	1487	268	258	5	58.4	7	0.5	47	32	1592
2	Yuvraj Singh	1095	1315	1138	570	609	12	205.2	8	2.5	100	34	1443
3	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	988	1272	958	0	0	0	0	35|13	5.5	437	33	1395
4	Gautam Gambhir	988	1273	958	0	0	0	0	3	0	15	27	973
5	Sourav Ganguly [Images]	611	850	542	300	348	5	98.4	1	1	29	20	669
6	Zaheer Khan [Images]	148	208	130	1000	1160	22	456	2	2.5	70	22	656
7	Harbhajan Singh	155	161	181	672	895	14	380	6	2.5	90	19	651
8	Irfan Pathan	237	338	204	875	971	21	405.8	4	0.5	32	21	641
9	Robin Uthappa	434	474	489	0	0	0	0	9	2	93	23	582
10	R P Singh	26	55	8	788	885	24	496	2	2	58	18	562
11	Rahul Dravid [Images]	462	554	481	0	0	0	0	10	0.5	62	20	543
12	Piyush Chawla	20	34	12.8	571	726	17	417.8	9	0.5	57	14	488
13	S Sreesanth	26	64	0.8	549	554	22	422.2	3	0	15	13	438
14	Rohit Sharma	294	380	284	8	12	0	1.6	8	1.5	76	13	362
15	Ishant Sharma	5	17	-3.6	323	415	14	345	2	0	10	10	351
16	Ramesh Powar [Images]	46	78	29.6	528	668	10	246.4	2	0	10	13	286
17	Virender Sehwag	210	243	226	149	162	2	28.6	3	0.5	27	10	281
18	Murali Kartik [Images]	37	48	35.6	300	377	10	241.6	0	0	0	7	277
19	Dinesh Karthik [Images]	180	217	186	0	0	0	0	12|1	0.5	82	13	268
20	Ajit Agarkar [Images]	19	38	7.6	415	414	12	204.2	2	0.5	22	8	234
21	Praveen Kumar	18	21	19.2	179	240	6	157	2	1	34	4	210
22	Munaf Patel	1	12	-7.6	328	378	8	166.4	1	1	29	8	188
23	Dinesh Mongia	34	41	35.2	106	108	3	52.4	0	0	0	2	87.6
24	Manoj Tiwari	2	16	-8.8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-8.8

Runs (scored) | Balls (taken) | Bat-pts: Batting points | | Rc: Runs conceded | Bb: Balls bowled | W: Wickets taken | Bowl-pts: Bowling points | Ct/St: Catches taken / Stumpings | Run outs (participated) | Field-pts: fielding points | M: Matches played | Total (points) = 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.