Sehwag topples Malinga as most valuable player in IPL

Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle take a look at the worth of the key players in the ongoing T20 extravaganza.

This is a special MVP update. After the blistering knock against the Deccan Chargers [ Images ], we thought readers might be curious to know Virender Sehwag's [ Images ] ranking.

Sehwag's MVPI has soared from 390 to 557. And he's now 103 'runs' ahead of purple-capped Lasith Malinga [ Images ].

Other Sehwag firsts include winning the Orange cap (aggregate 422), most sixes in IPL-4 (18) and most fours in IPL-4 (51).

At one stage Sehwag had scored 105 runs in just 38 balls, at a strike rate of almost 300.

Among batsmen who have scored 150 or more runs, Sehwag's strike rate of 178.8 is bettered only by Chris Gayle [ Images ] (186.3).

Others players who have scored more than 150 runs at a strike rate greater than 150 are Jesse Ryder [ Images ] (160.4), Yusuf Pathan [ Images ] (154.5) and Shaun Marsh [ Images ] (154.1).