After an indifferent start, Chennai Super Kings exceeded all expectations by winning the Indian Premier League, beating favourites Mumbai Indians in the final.
A look at IPL3's 50 best players, 20 most disappointing players, 20 best batsmen and bowlers.
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.
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.
Although he fell rather early in the match against Delhi Daredevils, Jacques Kallis is still the most valuable player of IPL3 after the first 21 matches (i.e., as on the morning of March 26) with a MVPI of 360.
The IPL pricing so far has been extremely irrational, and one expects franchise owners to correct this in subsequent years.
You do wonder why this is so, especially because top Indian players earn significantly higher amounts than their international counterparts with similar or greater ability. Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji identify the Most Valuable Players in the IPL so far.
Rohit scored his third ODI double century, settled down most comfortably as India's stop-gap captain, and was India's most valuable player by a long mile. Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji list the most valuable players in the Sri Lanka ODI series.
The IPL league games threw up many surprises. Very few expected Rajasthan Royals to be the best team (and now a finalist); nobody expected the Deccan Chargers to do so badly. We'll discuss each team's performance, and identify the five best and three most disappointing players. While doing so we shall italicize what appear to be key pointers.
It is curious that while 'low cost' medium and fast bowlers have performed almost as well as their 'auctioned' counterparts, 'low cost' batsmen have been unable to match the performance of their more successful seniors
With a strike rate of 115, Shikhar Dhawan is the MVP from the India-West Indies series according to Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji.
The Indian opener tops the Champions Trophy MVP table. But Hasan Ali, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma aren't too far behind, note Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji.
So overwhelming was India's domination in the series, that Zimbabwe's most valuable player, Elton Chigumbura, is only seventh in the combined list with a MVPI of just 175, according to Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present the Most Valuable Player Index of the just-concluded three-match series between India and Zimbabwe.
The T20 is often described as a young man's game; if you cross 30 you are supposed to be too old Is this hypothesis true? Is younger indeed better?
Te MVP of IPL 11, after Week 4, is young wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji identify the Most Valuable Players in the IPL at the end of Match 59.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji identify the Most Valuable Players in IPL 2019 at the end of the season.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Player standings after the 30th game in IPL 10.
As far as Bangladesh were concerned, there was nothing worth mentioning except for a fifty each from captain Mushfiqur Rahim (59) and Shakib Al Hasan (52), the latter emerging as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) on account of his all-round showing in the series as he also claimed six wickets with his left-arm spin.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Player ratings for the ongoing IPL 8.
A B de Villiers still heads Rediff.com's Most Valuable Players ratings for the World Cup.
Moeen Ali, the England all-rounder, with a batting strike-rate of 82.1 and an economy rate of 4.2, was tops.
Delhi Daredevils all-rounder Chris Morris has 12 wickets, at a better-than-par economy rate of 6.6 (the par economy rate is 8 runs conceded per over), and scored 74 runs at a staggering strike rate of almost 240 (the par strike rate is 133 runs in 100 balls).
The Most Valuable Player Index in IPL 3 after 40 matches.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji's MVPI formula shows India's Ravindra Jadeja was the most valuable player in the recently concluded India-England ODIs.
Ajinkya Rahane (PVI of 60) and Mandeep Singh (58) are still IPL's most paisa vasool players costing franchise owners less than US$100 per 'run equivalent'.
Rishabh Pant of the Delhi Daredevils, with a most valuable player index of 897, is the most valuable player of IPL 11.
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle present the most valuable and paisa vasool players in the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League.
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle present the most valuable and paisa vasool players of IPL5.
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle present the IPL's Most Valuable Player Index after 44 matches.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present the most valuable players in the just-concluded tri-series Down Under. Sachin Tendulkar is way down in the table, and Virender Sehwag is even lower!
The 25 most valuable players of the four previous IPLs and their PVI.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji identify the Most Valuable Players of World Cup 2019.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji list the 50 Most Valuable Players in the 2017 Champions Trophy.
Virat Kohli is India's most valuable ODI player in the current 2011-12 season, with Suresh Raina and Mahendra Singh Dhoni not too far behind.
Just when it seemed like a two-horse race, Tillakaratne Dilshan has also jumped into contention to be the most valuable player (MVP) of World Cup 2011 with his explosive century against England.
After 44 matches, Lasith Malinga is now IPL-IV's most valuable player with a MVPI of 454.
Paul Valthaty continues to be IPL 4's most valuable player (MVPI 376), but Lasith Malinga (350), with the purple cap and Virat Kohli (327), with his newly-earned orange cap, are fast rising up the ranks.
With just the final to go, Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji figure out the World Cup's 50 most valuable players.
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