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Kohli is WT20's most valuable player!

April 05, 2016 17:55 IST

Players from England and the West Indies dominate the World T20 MVP rankings, with Joe Root just behind India’s Virat Kohli in second place.

Having failed to make it to the final, it is not surprising that India has only two players in the top 25, with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni at No 24.

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji anaylse the players’ performance in Rediff.com's Most Valuable Players ratings.

Virat Kohli

IMAGE: Virat Kohli: ICC’s Player of the World T20 and Rediff.com’s Most Valuable Player.Photograph: BCCI

India's batting sensation Virat Kohli, named player of the tournament, is also the most valuable player of World T20 2016.

With a fifty and two wickets, England's Joe Root is just behind him.

The most valuable player index (MVPI) picks out batsmen who score a lot of runs, and very quickly; bowlers who take a lot of wickets at a low economy rate; and fielders who takes the most catches or participate in the most run dismissals.

For our calculations of the 2016 World T20, we assumed a team par score of 150, and every wicket worth 15 ‘runs’.

If a batsman scored at a strike rate of over 125, he had bonus ‘runs’ added; penalty ‘runs’ were deducted if the strike rate was below 125. If the bowler conceded less than 30 runs in his 4 overs he got bonus ‘runs’ added; if he conceded more than 30 he had penalty ‘runs’ subtracted.

We don’t think our MVPI formula is the best (what indeed is the ‘best’ formula?), but we’ve published this analysis on Rediff for over a decade now and the index has usually ranked player performance well.

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Players ratings.

Rank Player Team Runs Four  Six Str Rate W Eco M MVPI
1 Virat Kohli IND 273 29 5 146.8 1 9 5 338
2 Joe Root ENG 249 24 7 146.5 2 11 6 325
3 Jos Buttler ENG 191 13 12 159.2 0 - 6 248
4 Andre Russell WI 91 8 5 142.2 9 7.9 6 244
5 Jason Roy ENG 183 22 7 148.8 0 - 6 216
6 Quinton de Kock SA 153 18 6 143 0 - 4 212
7 David Willey ENG 41 1 4 132.3 10 7.6 6 204
8 Mitchell Santner NZ 29 3 0 107.4 10 6.3 5 201
9 Dwayne Bravo WI 63 3 2 95.5 9 7.9 6 200
10 Chris Gayle WI 113 8 11 194.8 2 5.7 5 197
11 Shane Watson AUS 96 9 4 150 5 7.4 4 197
12 Samuel Badree WI 2 0 0 100 9 5.4 6 197
13 Martin Guptill NZ 140 15 8 157.3 0 - 4 193
14 Shahid Afridi PAK 90 7 7 183.7 4 7.4 4 184
15 Ish Sodhi NZ 0 0 0 - 10 6.1 5 182
16 Shakib Al Hasan BAN 107 8 4 124.4 4 7.6 4 177
17 Mohammad Nabi AFG 35 4 1 97.2 6 6.4 4 174
18 Marlon Samuels WI 181 26 2 112.4 0 - 6 165
19 Usman Khawaja AUS 143 22 2 137.5 0 - 4 164
20 Glenn Maxwell AUS 109 8 4 129.8 2 7.6 4 162
21 AB de Villiers SA 110 5 9 180.3 0 - 4 155
22 Mustafizur Rahman BAN 6 0 1 200 9 7.2 3 147
23 Tillakaratne Dilshan SL 133 13 5 123.1 0 - 4 146
24 MS Dhoni IND 89 6 2 127.1 0 - 5 138
25 Ben Stokes ENG 56 5 3 169.7 4 9.6 6 134
26 James Faulkner AUS 17 2 0 100 8 8.1 4 134
27 Carlos Brathwaite WI 57 1 7 203.6 4 8.1 6 133
28 Thisara Perera SL 80 6 4 145.5 3 10.3 4 132
29 Sharjeel Khan PAK 112 18 3 143.6 0 - 4 131
30 Chris Jordan ENG 32 4 0 94.1 6 8.2 6 131
31 Samiullah Shenwari AFG 79 7 2 136.2 1 5.8 4 130
32 Hashim Amla SA 120 13 4 134.8 0 - 4 129
33 Angelo Mathews SL 114 6 6 118.8 1 6.9 3 128
34 Imran Tahir SA 0 0 0 - 6 5.2 4 127
35 Colin Munro NZ 118 11 4 114.6 0 - 5 126
36 Shoaib Malik PAK 96 7 3 165.5 0 9 4 126
37 Rashid Khan AFG 32 3 2 114.3 5 7.6 4 126
38 Mohd Shahzad AFG 80 7 6 142.9 0 - 4 124
39 Moeen Ali ENG 56 5 2 119.1 5 9.4 6 122
40 Grant Elliott NZ 50 4 0 108.7 3 5.8 5 122
41 Jean-Paul Duminy SA 83 5 4 172.9 1 10.3 2 117
42 Kane Williamson NZ 123 14 2 105.1 0 3 5 112
43 Johnson Charles WI 117 11 5 108.3 0 - 6 111
44 Andre Fletcher WI 106 8 6 120.5 0 - 3 110
45 Ashish Nehra IND 0 0 0 0 5 5.9 5 107
46 Suresh Raina IND 41 2 2 124.2 3 4.8 5 106
47 Faf du Plessis SA 98 11 2 112.6 0 - 4 103
48 Lendl Simmons WI 82 7 5 157.7 0 - 2 103
49 Corey Anderson NZ 86 8 1 97.7 2 7 5 102
50 Najibullah Zadran AFG 86 7 4 141 0 - 4 100
51 Sabbir Rahman BAN 75 11 1 108.7 1 5.5 4 98
52 Kyle Abbott SA 0 0 0 - 7 8.1 3 98
53 Adam Zampa AUS 2 0 0 200 5 6.3 4 91
54 Ahmed Shehzad PAK 108 14 0 102.9 0 - 4 89
55 Ross Taylor NZ 91 5 3 113.8 0 - 5 86
56 Mahmudullah BAN 76 8 1 118.8 1 9.4 4 86
57 Ravindra Jadeja IND 12 2 0 109.1 4 7.2 5 85
58 Luke Ronchi NZ 50 3 2 151.5 0 - 5 83
59 David Miller SA 48 4 3 200 0 - 4 82
60 Steven Smith AUS 83 8 1 120.3 0 - 4 80
61 Mohammad Hafeez PAK 69 7 2 146.8 0 - 2 79
62 Rohit Sharma IND 88 7 4 107.3 0 - 5 78
63 Asghar Stanikzai AFG 86 3 6 108.9 0 - 4 77
64 Umar Akmal PAK 78 4 2 121.9 0 - 4 76
65 Eoin Morgan ENG 66 3 3 111.9 0 - 6 74
66 Alex Hales ENG 66 9 1 111.9 0 - 5 74
67 Chris Morris SA 16 2 0 94.1 5 8.9 3 74
68 Nathan McCullum NZ 0 0 0 0 3 4.2 2 72
69 Adil Rashid ENG 4 0 0 100 5 8.4 6 69
70 Jeffrey Vandersay SL 3 0 0 37.5 3 5.2 3 69
71 Mitch McClenaghan NZ 7 0 1 233.3 4 7.9 4 66
72 Rangana Herath SL 6 0 0 60 3 6.2 4 66
73 Hardik Pandya IND 16 2 1 114.3 5 10.2 5 64
74 R Ashwin IND 15 1 0 68.2 4 7.7 5 64
75 Aaron Phangiso SA 4 0 0 80 3 5.6 2 62
76 Peter Nevill AUS 18 1 2 360 0 - 4 60
77 Adam Milne NZ 2 0 0 100 3 7.4 4 59
78 Yuvraj Singh IND 52 2 2 100 1 6.3 4 58
79 Denesh Ramdin WI 36 1 0 69.2 0 - 6 57
80 Sulieman Benn WI 0 0 0 - 2 6.8 6 57
81 David Wiese SA 28 2 0 107.7 1 8.2 3 55
82 Jasprit Bumrah IND 0 0 0 0 4 7.7 5 55
83 Aaron Finch AUS 58 4 2 116 0 - 2 54
84 Al-Amin Hossain BAN 0 0 0 0 5 9.3 4 53
85 Imad Wasim PAK 0 0 0 0 3 7 3 53
86 Dinesh Chandimal SL 56 5 3 96.6 0 - 4 52
87 Mohammad Sami PAK 4 1 0 200 4 9.3 3 52
88 Liam Plunkett ENG 4 0 0 100 2 6.4 4 51
89 Mushfiqur Rahim BAN 44 7 0 110 0 - 4 50
90 Tamim Iqbal BAN 62 5 2 103.3 0 - 3 49
91 Shafiqullah AFG 44 4 2 141.9 0 - 3 49
92 Shuvagata Hom BAN 29 3 1 103.6 1 6.6 3 49
93 Amir Hamza AFG 4 0 0 50 3 7.2 3 47
94 Noor Ali Zadran AFG 62 4 1 93.9 0 - 3 46
95 Mohammad Amir PAK 0 0 0 - 3 7.9 4 44
96 Khalid Latif PAK 49 4 1 102.1 0 - 2 42
97 Mitchell Marsh AUS 30 1 2 103.4 1 7.6 2 42
98 Farhaan Behardien SA 0 0 0 - 2 5 1 42
99 Ajinkya Rahane IND 40 2 0 114.3 0 - 1 40
100 Milinda Siriwardana SL 22 2 1 110 2 9 4 39
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle