Yuvraj Singh is now India's most valuable ODI player by a long mile (see Table 1). Two 70+ knocks (at lightning speed) have ensured that he's over 100 points ahead of Sachin Tendulkar.
Sourav Ganguly is fifth after his splendid allround performance at Headingley.
After Mahendra Singh Dhoni's superlative wicketkeeping in the fifth ODI, his fielding points have gone up to 131.
Table 1: India's most valuable players after the 2007 World Cup (12 matches)
| Player | Runs | Balls | Bat-pts | Rc | Bb | W | Bowl-pts | Ct|St | Run outs | Field-pts | M | Total |
| Yuvraj Singh | 421 | 473 | 463.6 | 204 | 231 | 6 | 124.8 | 4 | 0.5 | 32 | 12 | 620.4 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 454 | 569 | 452.8 | 112 | 96 | 3 | 36.8 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 494.6 | |
| Rahul Dravid | 407 | 466 | 441.2 | 5 | 0.5 | 37 | 12 | 478.2 | ||||
| Piyush Chawla | 20 | 28 | 17.6 | 450 | 552 | 16 | 375.6 | 8 | 0.5 | 52 | 11 | 445.2 |
| Sourav Ganguly | 327 | 478 | 271.6 | 129 | 180 | 4 | 111 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 387.6 | |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk) | 231 | 308 | 215.6 | 11|4 | 1.5 | 131 | 10 | 346.6 | ||||
| Goutam Gambhir | 346 | 450 | 332 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 337 | |||||
| R P Singh | 12 | 21 | 7.2 | 325 | 444 | 11 | 294.2 | 0 | 0.5 | 12 | 9 | 313.4 |
| Ramesh Powar | 19 | 40 | 6 | 372 | 516 | 10 | 280.8 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 296.8 | |
| Zaheer Khan | 64 | 66 | 75.2 | 377 | 462 | 8 | 184.6 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 283.8 |
| Dinesh Karthik | 180 | 211 | 191.2 | 11|1 | 65 | 12 | 256.2 | |||||
| Ajit Agarkar | 18 | 37 | 6.4 | 352 | 366 | 11 | 204.8 | 2 | 0.5 | 22 | 7 | 233.2 |
| Munaf Patel | 1 | 3 | -0.4 | 208 | 216 | 6 | 108.8 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 113.4 | |
| Virender Sehwag | 51 | 47 | 64.4 | 46 | 48 | 1 | 16.4 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 90.8 | |
| Dinesh Mongia | 34 | 41 | 35.2 | 106 | 108 | 3 | 52.4 | 2 | 87.6 | |||
| Sreesanth | 64 | 90 | 3 | 80 | 2 | 80 | ||||||
| Robin Uthappa | 55 | 62 | 60.4 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 70.4 | |||||
| Rohit Sharma | 8 | 9 | 8.8 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1.8 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 20.6 | |
| Ishant Sharma | 38 | 42 | 0 | -4.4 | 1 | -4.4 |
Runs (scored) | Balls (taken) | Bat-pts: Batting points | | Rc: Runs conceded | Bb: Balls bowled | W: Wickets taken | Bowl-pts: Bowling points | Ct/St: Catches taken / Stumpings | Run outs (participated) | Field-pts: fielding points | M: Matches played | Total (points) = sum of batting, bowling and fielding points | *Run outs are counted as 1 (wicket) for a direct hit, and 0.5 (wicket) if the fielder is an equal participant in a run out dismissal.
Table 2 lists the most valuable players in the ongoing NatWest series.
Table 2: The most valuable players so far in the India-England series
| Rank | Player | Runs | Balls | Bat-pts | Rc | Bb | W | Bowl-pts | Ct|St | Run outs | Field-pts | M | Total |
| 1 | IR Bell | 337 | 361 | 385.2 | 4 | 0.5 | 32 | 5 | 417.2 | ||||
| 2 | P Collingwood | 209 | 204 | 254.8 | 197 | 228 | 3 | 57.4 | 5 | 0.5 | 37 | 5 | 349.2 |
| 3 | JM Anderson | 1 | 1 | 1.2 | 209 | 293 | 12 | 313.4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 319.6 |
| 4 | Yuvraj Singh | 237 | 257 | 268.4 | 76 | 84 | 1 | 15.2 | 3 | 0.5 | 27 | 5 | 310.6 |
| 5 | Rahul Dravid | 219 | 221 | 261.2 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 276.2 | ||||
| 6 | MJ Prior (wk) | 136 | 149 | 152.8 | 12|0 | 2 | 108 | 5 | 260.8 | ||||
| 7 | Sachin Tendulkar | 250 | 309 | 252.8 | 68 | 60 | 0 | -20 | 5 | 232.8 | |||
| 8 | SCJ Broad | 85 | 111 | 81.2 | 250 | 276 | 7 | 138.8 | 5 | 220 | |||
| 9 | A Flintoff | 14 | 15 | 16 | 99 | 162 | 7 | 198.6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 219.6 |
| 10 | Sourav Ganguly | 181 | 257 | 156.4 | 64 | 84 | 2 | 51.2 | 5 | 207.6 | |||
| 11 | AN Cook | 182 | 239 | 172.8 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 187.8 | ||||
| 12 | Ramesh Powar | 13 | 26 | 5.2 | 159 | 222 | 6 | 162.6 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 177.8 |
| 13 | M S Dhoni (wk) | 90 | 133 | 73.6 | 6|2 | 0.5 | 62 | 5 | 135.6 | ||||
| 14 | MS Panesar | 185 | 228 | 4 | 93.4 | 0 | 1.5 | 36 | 4 | 129.4 | |||
| 15 | Piyush Chawla | 17 | 24 | 14.8 | 226 | 246 | 5 | 90.8 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 5 | 125.6 |
| 16 | Zaheer Khan | 55 | 62 | 60.4 | 187 | 222 | 3 | 62.6 | 4 | 123 | |||
| 17 | AD Mascarenhas | 52 | 39 | 72.8 | 59 | 84 | 1 | 32.2 | 0 | 0.5 | 12 | 2 | 117 |
| 18 | R P Singh | 12 | 21 | 7.2 | 182 | 210 | 5 | 106 | 4 | 113.2 | |||
| 19 | KP Pietersen | 85 | 96 | 93.2 | 13 | 11 | 0 | -4.2 | 5 | 89 | |||
| 20 | Ajit Agarkar | 18 | 37 | 6.4 | 250 | 216 | 6 | 66.8 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 83.2 |
| 21 | RS Bopara | 81 | 127 | 60.4 | 46 | 43 | 0 | -11.6 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 58.8 |
| 22 | Dinesh Karthik | 51 | 74 | 42.8 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 57.8 | ||||
| 23 | Munaf Patel | 1 | 3 | -0.4 | 107 | 78 | 4 | 51.4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 56 |
| 24 | Goutam Gambhir | 54 | 80 | 44 | 2 | 44 | |||||||
| 25 | Chris Tremlett | 19 | 10 | 30 | 130 | 102 | 2 | -0.4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 34.6 |
| 26 | J Lewis | 17 | 15 | 22 | 63 | 60 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 31 | |||
| 27 | Owais Shah | 42 | 71 | 27.2 | 3 | 27.2 |
Runs (scored) | Balls (taken) | Bat-pts: Batting points | | Rc: Runs conceded | Bb: Balls bowled | W: Wickets taken | Bowl-pts: Bowling points | Ct/St: Catches taken / Stumpings | Run outs (participated) | Field-pts: fielding points | M: Matches played | Total (points) = sum of batting, bowling and fielding points | *Run outs are counted as 1 (wicket) for a direct hit, and 0.5 (wicket) if the fielder is an equal participant in a run out dismissal.
These lists will be updated after every ODI game.
Srinivas Bhogle, Debasish Ghosh and K Anil Kumar work for Cranes Software International Limited, Bangalore.
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