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 [Images] World Twenty20 [Images] at this stage.
The top twenty includes only three players who won't play the semi-finals: Yuvraj Singh [Images] (8), Kevin Pietersen [Images] (12) and Brendon McCullum [Images] (17).
Dwayne Bravo [Images] 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 [Images] | 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 [Images] | SA | 185 | 16 | 6 | 160.9 | 0 | -- | 5 | 261 | 25 |
| 5 | Jacques Kallis [Images] | 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 [Images] | 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 [Images] | PAK | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 11 | 5.6 | 5 | 220 | 31 |
| 10 | Ajantha Mendis [Images] | 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 [Images] | SL | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 11 | 7.5 | 5 | 195 | 25 |
| 14 | Chris Gayle [Images] | 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 [Images] | SL | 136 | 17 | 4 | 128.3 | 1 | 9.4 | 5 | 170 | 39 |
| 19 | Mahela Jayawardene [Images] | 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 [Images] | 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 [Images] | 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 [Images] | 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 [Images] | SA | 139 | 20 | 1 | 113.0 | 0 | -- | 5 | 156 | 28 |
| 28 | Rohit Sharma [Images] | IND | 131 | 12 | 3 | 122.4 | 1 | 7.5 | 5 | 154 | 22 |
| 29 | Harbhajan Singh [Images] | 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 [Images] | IND | 148 | 16 | 1 | 109.6 | 0 | -- | 5 | 138 | 27 |
| 32 | Muttiah Muralitharan [Images] | SL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 5.5 | 5 | 138 | 37 |
| 33 | Kumar Sangakkara [Images] | SL | 113 | 8 | 2 | 103.7 | 0 | -- | 5 | 137 | 31 |
| 34 | Pragyan Ojha [Images] | IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 7 | 6.2 | 3 | 136 | 22 |
| 35 | Martin Guptill [Images] | 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 [Images] | ENG | 145 | 14 | 1 | 112.4 | 0 | -- | 5 | 134 | 24 |
| 38 | Yusuf Pathan [Images] | IND | 65 | 4 | 3 | 151.2 | 2 | 7.6 | 5 | 130 | 26 |
| 39 | Scott Styris [Images] | 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 [Images] | SA | 109 | 11 | 2 | 122.5 | 0 | -- | 5 | 114 | 35 |
| 42 | Zaheer Khan [Images] | 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 [Images] | PAK | 86 | 9 | 0 | 110.3 | 1 | 7.9 | 5 | 106 | 27 |
| 46 | Owais Shah [Images] | ENG | 106 | 8 | 4 | 108.2 | 0 | -- | 5 | 105 | 30 |
| 47 | Graeme Swann [Images] | ENG | 15 | 0 | 0 | 93.8 | 5 | 6.9 | 4 | 104 | 30 |
| 48 | Mashrafe Mortaza [Images] | 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 [Images] | 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 [Images], Irfan Pathan [Images], Suresh Raina [Images] and Ishant Sharma [Images] don't even make it to the top 50!
Srinivas Bhogle works for TEOCO Software Pvt Ltd. Purnendu Maji carried out the statistical analysis.
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