Even though the record books show a 2-1 series win for Pakistan, there is little doubt that Misbah-ul- Haq's team dominated the recently-concluded One-Day International series.
This becomes evident when we look at the most valuable player index (MVPI) table. The first four places have all been bagged by Pakistan cricketers, while India's [ Images ] most valuable performer, Mahendra Singh Dhoni [ Images ] is placed fifth.
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The MVPI formula picks out batsmen who score a lot of runs at a high strike rate and bowlers who take a lot of wickets at a low economy rate, and expresses a player's overall batting plus bowling plus fielding performance in terms of a 'run equivalent'.
Mohammed Hafeez, for example, has a MVPI of 237; this means that Hafeez scored 237 'runs' in the series if his batting + bowling + fielding performance is expressed only in terms of 'runs' (the break-up is 106 for batting, 126 for bowling and 5 for fielding).
Table 1 lists the MVPI of all the players who played in the ODI series and it clearly shows that Pakistan bowlers and opening batsmen won the series for them.
Table 1: Most valuable players in the India-Pakistan ODI series:
| Player Name | Team | Runs | Top score | Strike Rate | W | Eco | M | MVPI | |
| 1 | Saeed Ajmal [ Images ] | Pak | 8 | 7 | 72.7 | 8 | 2.9 | 3 | 274 |
| 2 | Junaid Khan | Pak | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 8 | 3.7 | 3 | 240 |
| 3 | Mohammad Hafeez [ Images ] | Pak | 97 | 76 | 91.5 | 3 | 3.3 | 3 | 237 |
| 4 | Nasir Jamshed | Pak | 241 | 106 | 75.3 | 0 | - | 3 | 215 |
| 5 | MS Dhoni | IND | 203 | 113 | 75.5 | 0 | - | 3 | 209 |
| 6 | Ishant Sharma [ Images ] | IND | 7 | 5 | 25.9 | 7 | 3.7 | 3 | 204 |
| 7 | Ravindra Jadeja [ Images ] | IND | 40 | 27 | 64.5 | 4 | 3.0 | 2 | 173 |
| 8 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | IND | 2 | 2 | 16.7 | 5 | 4.3 | 3 | 140 |
| 9 | R Ashwin | IND | 34 | 31 | 54.0 | 3 | 4.3 | 3 | 116 |
| 10 | Shoaib Malik [ Images ] | Pak | 63 | 34 | 80.8 | 1 | 2.0 | 3 | 104 |
| 11 | Umar Gul | Pak | 28 | 17 | 62.2 | 3 | 4.7 | 3 | 102 |
| 12 | Younis Khan [ Images ] | Pak | 74 | 58 | 77.9 | 0 | - | 3 | 74 |
| 13 | Mohammad Irfan | Pak | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 5.1 | 3 | 69 |
| 14 | Suresh Raina [ Images ] | IND | 92 | 43 | 48.4 | 1 | 8.6 | 3 | 61 |
| 15 | Shami Ahmed | IND | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2.6 | 1 | 43 |
| 16 | Virender Sehwag [ Images ] | IND | 35 | 31 | 64.8 | 0 | - | 2 | 43 |
| 17 | Yuvraj Singh [ Images ] | IND | 34 | 23 | 75.6 | 0 | 7.2 | 3 | 28 |
| 18 | Umar Akmal [ Images ] | Pak | 25 | 25 | 50.0 | 0 | - | 1 | 23 |
| 19 | Misbah-ul-Haq | Pak | 57 | 39 | 51.4 | 0 | - | 3 | 22 |
| 20 | Kamran Akmal | Pak | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | - | 3 | 21 |
| 21 | Ashok Dinda [ Images ] | IND | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 5.4 | 2 | 17 |
| 22 | Gautam Gambhir [ Images ] | IND | 34 | 15 | 49.3 | 0 | - | 3 | 11 |
| 23 | Ajinkya Rahane [ Images ] | IND | 4 | 4 | 36.4 | 0 | - | 1 | 4 |
| 24 | Rohit Sharma [ Images ] | IND | 4 | 4 | 28.6 | 0 | - | 1 | 1 |
| 25 | Virat Kohli [ Images ] | IND | 13 | 7 | 41.9 | 0 | 7.4 | 3 | -7 |
| 26 | Azhar Ali | Pak | 11 | 9 | 22.9 | 0 | - | 2 | -18 |
Runs (scored) | Top score | Strike rate | W: Wickets taken | Eco: Economy rate | | M: Matches played | MVPI: Most valuable player index = 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.
The next table shows India's most valuable players in the eight matches played so far in India's 2012-13 season. Virat Kohli loses his top place after his shockingly poor performance against Pakistan. Also it is clear that India sorely missed the injured Irfan Pathan [ Images ]. Finally note that Virender Sehwag's performance isn't as bad as the selectors seem to think that forced them to drop the veteran opener for the England [ Images ] ODI series.
Table 2: India's most valuable players in the 2012-13 ODI season (8 matches so far):
| Player | Runs | Six | Four | Strike Rate | Bat-pts | W | Eco | Bowl-pts | Field-pts | M | MVPI | |
| 1 | MS Dhoni | 338 | 9 | 26 | 84.3 | 341.8 | 0 | - | 0 | 70 | 8 | 412 |
| 2 | Virat Kohli | 309 | 1 | 27 | 84 | 311.3 | 0 | 5.3 | -1.8 | 27.5 | 8 | 337 |
| 3 | Suresh Raina | 266 | 4 | 18 | 78.9 | 251.2 | 1 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 60 | 8 | 319 |
| 4 | R Ashwin | 57 | 0 | 5 | 68.7 | 44.8 | 8 | 4.4 | 243 | 5 | 8 | 293 |
| 5 | Irfan Pathan | 76 | 0 | 6 | 92.7 | 83.7 | 8 | 5.3 | 189 | 5 | 5 | 278 |
| 6 | G Gambhir | 292 | 0 | 24 | 77.7 | 270.7 | 0 | - | 0 | 5 | 8 | 276 |
| 7 | V Sehwag | 183 | 0 | 22 | 91 | 198.5 | 1 | 4.7 | 29 | 22.5 | 6 | 250 |
| 8 | Ishant Sharma | 7 | 0 | 1 | 25.9 | -8.5 | 7 | 3.7 | 213 | 0 | 3 | 204 |
| 9 | Manoj Tiwary | 86 | 0 | 8 | 81.1 | 83.7 | 4 | 6.8 | 80 | 25 | 2 | 189 |
| 10 | R Jadeja | 40 | 2 | 0 | 64.5 | 28.3 | 4 | 3 | 140 | 5 | 2 | 173 |
| 11 | B Kumar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16.7 | -6 | 5 | 4.3 | 146 | 0 | 3 | 140 |
| 12 | Zaheer Khan [ Images ] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0.7 | 4 | 5.6 | 75 | 15 | 5 | 91 |
| 13 | Ashok Dinda | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1.7 | 5 | 6.2 | 78.2 | 0 | 5 | 77 |
| 14 | Shami Ahmed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4.2 | 1 | 2.6 | 47 | 0 | 1 | 43 |
| 15 | Yuvraj Singh | 34 | 0 | 4 | 75.6 | 30.5 | 0 | 7.2 | -13 | 10 | 3 | 28 |
| 16 | Rahul Sharma | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 1 | 5.6 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| 17 | Ajinkya Rahane | 13 | 0 | 2 | 46.4 | 2.7 | 0 | - | 0 | 10 | 2 | 13 |
| 18 | Rohit Sharma | 17 | 0 | 1 | 33.3 | -8.5 | 0 | 3.7 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 9 |
| 19 | Umesh Yadav | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2.5 | 2 | 8.1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 20 | Pragyan Ojha [ Images ] | 5 | 0 | 0 | 27.8 | -5 | 1 | 7.5 | 8.2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
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