IPL 2025: Where might Vaibhav Suryavanshi end up?

Even shadow Purple Cup winner Prasidh couldn't escape Vaibhav's onslaught on Monday night!

Vaibhav Suryavanshi

IMAGE: Rajasthan Royals' Vaibhav Suryavanshi plays a shot during the IPL 2025 match against Gujarat Titans, at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur, April 28, 2025. Photograph: ANI Photo

After Vaibhav Suryavanshi's magical batting effervescence last night, we asked ourselves where he might figure on the MVPI table.

But since this table is aggregated over all the 10 IPL matches played so far by RR, and Vaibhav has played only 3 of them, he's still at # 68 (see row entry in table below). But he'll zoom up if he retains even a fraction of this form.

Nicholas Pooran is holding on to the top position with a MVPI of 552. He's facing competition from Sai Sudharsan (492), Suryakumar Yadav (488), Jos Buttler (487) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (476). In fact, it's getting mighty crowded in the top 10 (see table).

Nicholas Pooran

IMAGE: Lucknow Super Giants' Nicholas Pooran plays a shot during the IPL 2025 match against Chennai Super Kings, at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, in Lucknow on April 14, 2025. Photograph: ANI Photo

We are also seeing bowlers gain some ascendancy, with Prasidh Krishna (17 wickets at an economy rate of 7.8) rising to the 12th place in the MVPI table, followed by Hardik Pandya (MVPI of 359), who's playing this IPL so far as a bowler at 13th place, and Josh Hazlewood (349) at 16th.

Players offering the best value for money include Aiden Markram (paid US$ 382 for every 'run' scored), Vaibhav Suryavanshi (PVI of 469), Priyansh Arya (679), Mitchell Marsh (705), Ryan Rickelton (235), Ajinkya Rahane (393) and Tim David (885).

The MVPI formula also allows us to more accurately rate the top batting and bowling performances, and determine the contenders for, what we might call, the "Shadow Orange Cap" and "Shadow Purple Cap".

Shadow Orange Cap current winner: Nicholas Pooran (510). Current contenders: Suryakumar Yadav (476), B Sai Sudharsan (456)
Shadow Purple Cap current winner: Prasidh Krishna (348). Current contenders: Josh Hazlewood (345), Kuldeep Yadav (304)

The current Orange Cap winner Virat Kohli is marginally behind because of his lower strike rate (139), in view of the situations in which he was chasing. Prasidh Krishna is a few points ahead because his economy rate is 7.8 against Hazlewood's 8.4.

But even Prasidh couldn't escape Vaibhav's onslaught on Monday night!

Table: Best performing players so far at IPL 18 (after Match 47 ending 28.4.24)

Rank	Player	Team	From	Runs	Top Score	4s	6s	Strike Rate	Wickets	Economy Rate	Games	MVPI	PVI(US$)
1	Nicholas Pooran	LSG	WI	404	87	33	34	203	0	-	10	552	3197
2	B Sai Sudarshan	GT	IND	456	82	46	16	150	0	-	9	492	1307
3	Suryakumar Yadav	MI	IND	427	68	42	23	169.4	0	-	10	488	2815
4	Jos Buttler	GT	ENG	406	97	42	19	168.5	0	-	9	487	2446
5	Yashasvi Jaiswal	RR	IND	426	75	41	22	152.7	0	-	10	476	3178
6	Virat Kohli	RCB	IND	443	73	39	13	138.9	0	-	10	442	3993
7	Aiden Markram	LSG	SA	335	66	30	15	147.6	4	8.8	10	440	382
8	Shubman Gill	GT	IND	389	90	38	13	156.2	0	-	9	429	2909
9	Priyansh Arya	PBKS	IND	323	103	32	22	200.6	0	-	9	423	679
10	Mitchell Marsh	LSG	AUS	378	81	36	20	158.8	0	-	9	405	705
11	KL Rahul	DC	IND	364	93	28	16	146.2	0	-	8	391	2708
12	Prasidh Krishna	GT	IND	0	0	0	0	-	17	7.8	9	366	1963
13	Hardik Pandya	MI	IND	109	42	9	6	160.3	12	9.1	9	359	3827
14	Ryan Rickelton	MI	SA	260	62	32	12	151.2	0	-	9	358	235
15	Shreyas Iyer	PBKS	IND	288	97	18	21	182.3	0	-	9	351	5764
16	Josh Hazlewood	RCB	AUS	0	0	0	0	0	18	8.4	10	349	3010
17	Heinrich Klaasen	SRH	SA	288	71	28	12	156.5	0	-	9	348	4999
18	Sunil Narine	KKR	WI	151	44	15	12	175.6	7	7.8	8	341	2661
19	Krunal Pandya	RCB	IND	97	73	7	4	129.3	13	8.6	10	340	1421
20	Prabhsimran Singh	PBKS	IND	292	83	34	14	168.8	0	-	9	337	898
21	Riyan Parag	RR	IND	266	43	18	18	158.3	0	8.5	10	336	3501
22	Kuldeep Yadav	DC	IND	10	5	2	0	142.9	12	6.6	9	314	3191
23	Axar Patel	DC	IND	189	39	16	11	156.2	3	8.4	9	310	4025
24	Philip Salt	RCB	ENG	239	65	30	13	168.3	0	-	9	301	3211
25	Abhishek Sharma	SRH	ND	240	141	31	11	180.5	0	10.3	9	301	3518
26	Travis Head	SRH	AUS	261	67	37	9	159.1	0	-	9	294	3601
27	Ajinkya Rahane	KKR	IND	271	61	24	15	146.5	0	-	9	289	393
28	Ravindra Jadeja	CSK	AUS	166	53	10	6	125.8	6	8.2	9	287	4743
29	Tim David	RCB	AUS	184	50	16	14	197.8	0	-	10	285	885
30	Varun Chakravarthy	KKR	IND	0	0	0	0	-	11	6.9	9	279	3253
31	Dhruv Jurel	RR	IND	238	70	17	14	150.6	0	-	10	278	4232
32	Abishek Porel	DC	IND	253	51	25	9	153.3	0	-	9	274	1104
33	Noor Ahmad	CSK	AFG	3	2	0	0	23.1	14	8	9	269	2812
34	Naman Dhir	MI	IND	155	46	14	8	184.5	0	4	10	265	1665
35	Tilak Varma	MI	IND	239	59	20	10	140.6	0	-	10	265	2537
36	Ayush Badoni	LSG	IND	252	50	22	9	142.4	0	-	10	257	1308
37	Tristan Stubbs	DC	SA	217	38	19	9	164.4	0	20	9	256	2954
38	Shimron Hetmyer	RR	WI	187	52	14	9	152	0	-	10	253	3654
39	R Sai Kishore	GT	IND	1	1	0	0	100	12	8.5	9	252	600
40	Rohit Sharma	MI	IND	240	76	18	17	156.9	0	-	9	251	5457
41	Trent Boult	MI	NZ	1	1	0	0	100	13	8.5	9	251	4185
42	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	RCB	IND	10	8	1	0	52.6	12	8.4	9	251	3599
43	Harshal Patel	SRH	IND	21	12	0	0	80.8	13	9	8	248	2440
44	Nitish Rana	RR	IND	208	81	25	9	169.1	0	9	10	244	1446
45	Devdutt Padikkal	RCB	IND	230	61	20	13	154.4	0	-	9	243	692
46	Rajat Patidar	RCB	IND	228	64	20	10	147.1	0	-	10	236	3917
47	Vipraj Nigam	DC	IND	66	39	6	4	206.3	7	9.3	9	235	161
48	Digvesh Rathi	LSG	IND	1	1	0	0	33.3	10	7.8	10	234	108
49	Khaleel Ahmed	CSK	IND	1	1	0	0	50	12	9	9	233	1558
50	Sanju Samson	RR	IND	224	66	23	10	143.6	0	-	7	232	6520
68	Vaibhav Suryavanshi	RR	IND	151	101	9	16	215.7	0	-	3	197	469