After yesterday's ridiculously one-sided England-South Africa match, the South Africans have improved their standings on the MVP list. Graeme Smith's 89 in 58 balls, and two catches, have taken him from the 35^th to the 13^th place.  Andrew Hall climbed from the 52^nd place to the 18^th with his incredible figures of 10-2-18-5.

England's Andrew Flintoff has dropped from the 8^th place to the 12^th, Kevin Pietersen from the 13^th place to the 23^rd.

With the Super Eights being only of academic interest now, we will, starting tomorrow, publish the "full" MVP list featuring all the players who participated in the 2007 World Cup. We will also discontinue our averaging process; so the player with the largest number of points will top the MVP list, without considering if he played seven matches or five.

It looks likely that Sanath Jayasuriya will stay on top of the "complete list" as well, especially with Sri Lanka's easy match against Ireland coming up later today.

Ct: Catches taken | St: Stumpings | 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 player is an equal participant in a run out dismissal.

The Chernoff gallery of the top nine Super Eight players after Day 34 appears below. The data below the face is in the following format: total runs / strike rate | wickets / economy rate.

Here are the faces of the nine highest scoring batsmen in the Super Eights (total runs / scoring rate). If two players have scored the same number of runs, the player with the higher points appears first.

Recall that batsmen have round faces and a short and wide nose. They smile more when they score more runs. Batting all-rounders have taller noses, and their faces that aren't so round.

Here are the faces of the nine highest wicket-taking bowlers in the Super Eights (wickets / no. of runs conceded per over). If two players have scored the same number of wickets, the player with the higher points appears first.

Bowlers have tapered faces, a tall and thin nose, and bigger ears if they take more wickets.

Here are the faces of the nine most successful fielders in the Super Eight ( fielding points | run outs / catches / stumpings).

Fielders who take a lot of catches have wide eyebrows (see "McCullum"), and those that participate in run out dismissals have bigger eyes ("Rahim").

Finally, here's the chart showing the average "value" contributed by players from all the Super Eight teams. The top four teams are the semi-finalists, as one would indeed expect.

This list, the Chernoff faces and other charts have been prepared by my colleagues Debasish Ghosh and K Anil Kumar of Cranes Software International Limited using the SYSTAT software.