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Tendulkar is MVP after game 6

July 03, 2007 19:50 IST

Although he failed with the bat, Sachin Tendulkar made up by taking two wickets (he also took a great catch that failed to impress umpire Aleem Dar!) in the third and final one-day international against South Africa in Belfast on Sunday.

Yuvraj Singh too played marvellously to orchestrate a rare Indian ODI series victory abroad.

It's therefore no surprise to see this duo at the top of the list in the Rediff player performance tracker after the sixth ODI match of the current season.

Rank	Country	Player	Runs	Balls	Ct \| St	Rc	Bb	W	Run Outs	M	Total
1	Ind	Sachin Tendulkar	204	260	1	44	36	3	0	4	261.80
2	Ind	Yuvraj Singh	146	188	1	128	147	5	0	6	256.20
3	Ind	Piyush Chawla	3	4	1	182	246	9	0.5	5	250.60
4	Ind	Gautam Gambhir	207	255	1				0	5	215.00
5	Ind	Dinesh Karthik	115	111	8 \| 1				0	6	191.20
6	Ind	M S Dhoni	141	175	3 \| 2				0.5	4	189.00
7	Ind	Rahul Dravid	178	237	2				0.5	6	188.40
8	Ind	Sourav Ganguly	146	221	1	65	96	2	0	4	180.00
9	Ind	Zaheer Khan	9	4	0	190	240	5	1	5	160.80
10	Ind	R P Singh	0	0	0	117	180	4	0.5	4	135.00
11	Ind	Ramesh Powar	6	14	0	172	240	4	0	4	116.80
12	Ind	Ajit Agarkar	0	0	0	48	96	3	0	2	100.80
13	Ind	Virender Sehwag	51	47	2	46	48	1	0	2	90.80
14	Ind	Dinesh Mongia	34	41	0	106	108	3	0	2	87.60
15	Ind	Sreesanth	0	0	0	64	90	3	0	2	80.00
16	Ind	Rohit Sharma	8	9	2	3	6	0	0	2	20.60
17	Ind	Munaf Patel	0	0	0	65	84	0	0	2	2.20
18	Ind	Ishant Sharma	0	0	0	38	42	0	0	1	-4.40

If one considers only the India-South Africa series, Tendulkar and Yuvraj still end up as the best two players from either side. The tables below list India's and South Africa's most valuable players in the three-match one-day international series in Ireland.

Rank	Country	Player	Runs	Balls	Ct \| St	Rc	Bb	W	Run Outs	M	Total
1	Ind	Sachin Tendulkar	200	257	1	20	12	2	0	3	237.00
2	Ind	Yuvraj Singh	121	157	0	88	105	3	0	3	184.40
3	Ind	Rahul Dravid	114	151	2				0.5	3	129.20
4	Ind	Sourav Ganguly	73	122	0	50	60	2	0	3	94.40
5	Ind	Zaheer Khan	0	0	0	104	156	3	0	3	92.80
6	Ind	Dinesh Karthik	51	47	3 \| 0				0	3	79.40
7	Ind	R P Singh	0	0	0	81	120	2	0.5	3	75.00
8	Ind	Piyush Chawla	2	2	0	116	126	3	0	3	59.20
9	Ind	Ajit Agarkar	0	0	0	21	36	2	0	1	55.80
10	Ind	Ramesh Powar	1	3	0	85	120	1	0	2	34.60
11	Ind	M S Dhoni	14	15	2 \| 0				0	2	26.00
12	Ind	Rohit Sharma	8	9	1	3	6	0	0	1	15.60
13	Ind	Ishant Sharma	0	0	0	38	42	0	0	1	-4.40
14	Ind	Gautam Gambhir	5	18	0				0	2	-4.40

South Africa:

Rank	Country	Player	Runs	Balls	Ct \| St	Rc	Bb	W	Run Outs	M	Total
1	SA	Mark Boucher	89	94	3 \| 0				1.5	3	153.80
2	SA	Jacques Kallis	93	128	2	64	55	2	0	3	121.60
3	SA	Morne van Wyk	126	186	0				0.5	3	115.20
4	SA	Andre Nel	1	3	0	112	152	4	0	3	105.20
5	SA	Andrew Hall	34	36	0	121	156	2	0	3	91.00
6	SA	Makhaya Ntini	0	0	0	88	162	2	0	3	89.60
7	SA	Herschelle Gibbs	78	102	1				0	3	79.40
8	SA	Justin Kemp	61	61	0	9	12	0	0	1	73.80
9	SA	Jean-Paul Duminy	51	75	0				0	3	42.00
10	SA	Charl Langeveldt	0	0	1	102	108	2	0	2	37.40
11	SA	AB de Villiers	39	78	1				0	3	20.60
12	SA	Thandi Tshabalala	0	0	0	42	48	1	0	1	20.40
13	SA	Vernon Philander	17	22	0	37	48	0	0	1	17.80
14	SA	Dale Steyn	0	0	0	35	36	1	0	1	17.80

Note: Rc: Runs conceded | Bb: Balls bowled | W: Wickets taken | M: Matches played. *Run outs are counted as 1 for a direct hit, and 0.5 if the fielder is an equal participant in a run out dismissal.

Srinivas Bhogle and K Anil Kumar work for Cranes Software International Limited, Bangalore

Srinivas Bhogle, K Anil Kumar