A look at the best batsmen, bowlers and fielders in the third edition of the Indian Premier League at the end of the league stage.
A detailed statistical look at the group matches in the Indian Premier League.
Jacques Kallis continues to be IPL3's most valuable player, and there's a good chance that he might end up becoming IPL3's MVP, now that RCB seem assured of the semi-final berth.
A look at the expensive players (paid $450,000 or more) providing the best value (less than $2000 per run) at the IPL, and 'expensive' players who have failed to provide value.
Jacques Kallis tops the batting list because he has scored a lot of runs, although his strike rate is below our average of 133, while Murali Vijay edges past Tendulkar because of his phenomenal strike rate of 175.
We're approximately at the halfway mark of IPL3 and it is a good time to ask which players are doing well and which players aren't.
Yusuf Pathan has overtaken Jacques Kallis to become the most valuable player of IPL3 after the first 25 matches (i.e., as on the morning of March 29) with a MVPI of 447.
A year ago most cricket enthusiasts felt that the best days of the Australian ODI team were over. The 2009 Champions Trophy changed all that. Australia easily won the trophy and haven't looked back since then.
Australia remain on top in the Rediff Test Rankings after thrashing both West Indies and Pakistan at home. India share the second place with South Africa after only managing to draw the recent home series.
Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is still India's MVP of the current 2009-10 season, but Tendulkar has come dangerously close. The master batsman would almost certainly have topped if he had played as many matches as Dhoni.
Kumar Sangakkara edged out Virat Kohli to take the top place in the just-concluded tri-series.
After the 3-1 series victory over Sri Lanka (46.13), India (60.21) ended 2009 in second place in the Rediff ODI Rankings. South Africa (56.02) dropped to third place after losing at home to England (44.88). Australia (70.84) stay on top, but they aren't looking as dominating as they used to.
Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan ended his most successful year in international cricket by becoming the most valuable player (MVP) in the recently-concluded India Sri Lanka ODI series, with his fellow-opener Upul Tharanga just behind him.
Although India currently tops the official ICC Test Rankings, Australia continue to stay on top of the Rediff Test Rankings. There's a simple enough explanation for this: the ICC and Rediff Ttest rankings are calculated based on different formulae. ICC accords the highest weightage to recently won Test matches; the Rediff rankings consider a much wider window spanning the most recent home-away series between every pair of teams.
Just before the ICC Champions Trophy, it looked likely that India would be the world's best team in One-Day Internationals. But by failing to even qualify for the semi-finals, and now losing the home ODI series to Australia, the Indian dream has ended. India (59.71) are still second, and a whisker ahead of South Africa (59.43) in the Rediff ODI rankings, but expect them to drop to the third place quite soon.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is so far the most valuable player (MVP) in the ongoing India-Australia seven-match One-Day International series, with Michael Hussey just behind him.
What a remarkable comeback by Ashish Nehra. After being almost forgotten, the left-arm pacer now leads India's Most Valuable Player (MVP) rankings in One-Day Internationals this season.
Australia (69.98) returned to the top of the Rediff ODI rankings in emphatic fashion after retaining the recently-concluded ICC Champions Trophy. India (61.27) and South Africa (57.89) crashed dramatically after failing to reach the semi-finals, but still hold on to the second and third places.
Even though Yuvraj Singh didn't seem to be quite himself -- at least till that innings in the Compaq Cup tri-series final -- he is still India's most valuable ODI player in the ongoing 2009-10 season. If Yuvraj doesn't bat well, he ends up bowling rather well. So this way or that he always brings great value.
As we go into the Champions Trophy in South Africa, both India (69.53) and South Africa (69.97) are vying for the top place in the Rediff ODI Rankings. England (43.90) and New Zealand (50.08) are the big losers with bad losses in the NatWest Series and the Compaq Cup respectively.
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