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Morris leads MVP rankings; Rana best paisa vasool player

April 24, 2017 08:04 IST

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Player standings after the 23rd game in IPL 10.

Chris Morris

IMAGE: Chris Morris of the Delhi Daredevils celebrates a wicket. Photographs: BCCI

The Indian Premier League juggernaut rolls on...

Day after day, match after match!

So who is IPL's top performer at this stage? And at what price?

Currently, it is Chris Morris of the Delhi Daredevils with a MVP of 340 and a PVI of 1097.

MVP is the most valuable player index. MVPI collapses every player's batting, bowling and fielding performance into a single 'run equivalent'.

To have the best MVPI, players must score a lot of runs at a high strike rate, and take a lot of wickets at a low economy rate.

More catches and run outs help even more.

Morris has 12 wickets, at a better-than-par economy rate of 6.6 (the par economy rate is eight 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).

PVI is the player's Paisa Vasool Index.

If we look at Morris again, he was bought by Delhi for Rs 7 crores (approximately $1,044,000) to be available for at least 14 matches.

He has played five out of these 14 matches so far, and so earned 5/14th of the money equaling $372,857.

In return, Morris has offered the DD franchise 340 'runs'.

So, for every 'run' DD get from Morris they pay him $372,857/340 = $1,097. This is Morris' PVI.

Amongst the current top IPL performers the player with the best (lowest) PVI is Nitish Rana of the Mumbai Indians with a MVPI of 283.

Bought for just Rs 10 lakhs ($14,000), the franchise earns a 'run' from Rana for just $18!

Nitish Rana

IMAGE: Nitish Rana in action.

Just to get a better feel for these numbers, Ajinkya Rahane of Rising Pune Supergiant has a MVPI of 127 and a PVI of 3985.

Rahane has offered RPS 127 'runs' so far and they have had to pay him $3,985 per 'run'.

The table below indicates the MVPI and the PVI for the top 50 players in IPL10.

This data was updated after the 23rd game on April 21, 2017.

 

RankPlayer's NameTeamFromRunsTop score4's6'sStr RateWEcoMMVPIMoney Offered
(US $)		PVI(US$)PVI(INR)Age
1 Chris Morris DD SA 74 38 8 4 238.7 12 6.6 5 340 1044000 1097 73529 30
2 Brendon McCullum GL NZ 258 72 22 16 150.9 0 - 6 312 820000 1126 75549 36
3 Bhuvneshwar Kumar SH IND 4 4 0 0 133.3 15 5.7 6 303 634000 897 60113 27
4 Suresh Raina GL IND 243 84 24 7 148.2 1 8.8 6 287 1865000 2785 186660 30
5 Nitish Rana MI IND 255 62 14 16 142.5 0 - 6 283 14000 18 1262 23
6 Manish Pandey KKR IND 245 81 16 11 145.8 0 - 6 282 253000 385 25836 28
7 David Warner SH AUS 239 76 26 9 134.3 0 - 6 261 820000 1346 90312 30
8 Gautam Gambhir KKR IND 229 76 32 1 138 0 - 6 253 1865000 3159 211745 36
9 Hashim Amla KXI SA 234 104 22 10 141.8 0 - 6 248 149000 257 17281 34
10 Sanju Samson DD IND 215 102 21 8 142.4 0 - 5 241 626000 928 62241 22
11 Robin Uthappa KKR IND 174 72 18 7 161.1 0 - 6 232 746000 1378 92365 31
12 Sunil Narine KKR WI 87 42 14 4 185.1 4 6.4 6 221 1417000 2748 184228 29
13 Jos Buttler MI ENG 185 77 15 12 156.8 0 - 6 217 567000 1120 75049 27
14 Kedar Jadhav RCB IND 166 69 14 8 161.2 0 - 6 215 324000 646 43256 32
15 Glenn Maxwell KXI AUS 162 44 14 12 184.1 0 12.5 6 214 895000 1792 120160 29
16 Manan Vohra KXI IND 174 95 18 8 165.7 0 - 5 212 597000 1207 80863 24
17 Shikhar Dhawan SH IND 205 70 22 3 120.6 0 - 6 199 1865000 4017 269203 31
18 Krunal Pandya MI IND 88 37 8 4 144.3 5 6.9 6 198 298000 645 43290 26
19 Axar Patel KXI IND 88 44 2 5 117.3 6 7.3 6 195 111000 244 16484 23
20 Rishabh Pant DD IND 141 57 9 10 167.9 0 - 5 194 283000 521 34978 20
21 Hardik Pandya MI IND 96 35 7 8 240 3 8.3 6 191 14000 31 2244 24
22 Rashid Khan SH AFG 8 6 0 1 160 9 7.4 6 187 597000 1368 91673 19
23 Kieron Pollard MI WI 164 70 9 11 142.6 0 16.4 6 183 1417000 3319 222482 30
24 Steven Smith RPS WI 180 84 19 4 135.3 0 - 4 183 820000 1600 107338 28
25 Ben Stokes RPS ENG 100 50 7 4 138.9 4 7.6 5 179 2164000 4318 289306 26
26 Virat Kohli RCB IND 154 64 15 4 132.8 0 - 3 169 1865000 4730 316991 28
27 Chris Lynn KKR AUS 125 93 9 9 192.3 0 - 2 163 194000 510 34181 27
28 Chris Gayle RCB WI 137 77 10 11 145.7 0 - 4 157 1119000 3055 204732 38
29 Sam Billings DD ENG 138 55 19 1 135.3 0 - 5 156 44000 101 6868 26
30 AB de Villiers RCB SA 137 89 4 12 141.2 0 - 3 153 1417000 3969 266106 33
31 Yuvraj Singh SH IND 96 62 10 5 174.5 1 6 6 153 1044000 2924 196078 35
32 Dinesh Karthik GL IND 132 48 10 4 138.9 0 - 6 149 343000 987 66155 32
33 Moises Henriques SH AUS 138 52 13 2 127.8 1 9.6 5 144 149000 443 29762 30
34 Parthiv Patel MI IND 128 39 18 3 137.6 0 - 6 140 208000 637 42857 32
35 Pat Cummins DD AUS 21 12 3 0 131.3 7 7.9 5 134 671000 1788 119936 24
36 Imran Tahir RPS SA 0 0 0 0 0 8 8.1 5 128 716000 1998 133929 38
37 Zaheer Khan DD IND 1 1 0 0 100 7 8.1 5 127 597000 1679 112486 39
38 Aaron Finch GL AUS 101 33 9 7 162.9 0 - 5 127 149000 503 33746 30
39 Andrew Tye GL AUS 6 6 0 0 100 7 7.1 3 127 74000 250 16873 30
40 Ajinkya Rahane RPS IND 119 60 12 4 138.4 0 - 5 127 1417000 3985 267154 29
41 Yuzvendra Chahal RCB IND 4 3 0 0 44.4 7 7.3 6 125 14000 48 3429 27
42 Pawan Negi RCB IND 33 13 0 2 117.9 4 6.5 5 122 149000 523 35129 24
43 Yusuf Pathan KKR IND 97 59 9 3 140.6 1 8.5 6 121 485000 1718 115112 34
44 Mitchell McClenaghan MI NZ 0 0 0 0 0 9 9.1 6 120 44000 157 10714 31
45 Manoj Tiwary RPS IND 98 40 8 5 160.7 0 - 4 119 74000 222 15006 31
46 Shreyas Iyer DD IND 98 50 12 2 150.8 0 - 3 113 388000 1226 82174 22
47 Kuldeep Yadav KKR IND 0 0 0 0 - 6 7.6 5 111 59000 228 15444 22
48 Kane Williamson SH NZ 89 89 6 5 174.5 0 - 1 110 89000 347 23377 27
49 Shahbaz Nadeem DD IND 0 0 0 0 0 4 4.9 3 104 126000 433 29190 28
50 Samuel Badree RCB WI 0 0 0 0 0 5 5.1 2 102 74000 311 21008 36

 

Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji