The most valuable player index (MVPI) is computed by adding up every player's batting, bowling and fielding points -- expressed as a run equivalent.

Take a look at the career stats of the Indian squad that has been announced on Monday for the Twenty20 World Cup starting next month.

It's not clear if the India-New Zealand One-Day International series offered a man of the series award. But there can be no doubt that the overwhelming favourite for the award was Virender Sehwag. Sehwag plundered almost 300 runs, at a staggering strike rate of 150, to be right at the top of the list of the most valuable players (MVP) of the series.

Johannesburg, Dubai and Abu Dhabi are being considered as possible venues to host the Champions Trophy this year, a senior International Cricket Council official said on Monday. Sri Lanka is the back-up venue but Dave Richardson, ICC general manager for cricket, said some doubts had been raised as September-October, when the event is planned, would be the monsoon season in the island nation.

The Indian cricket team travels to New Zealand next week to play three Tests, five one-dayers and two Twenty20 internationals. Here's a statistical outlook of the players.

Yuvraj Singh was the most valuable player (MVP) in the recently-concluded Sri Lanka India ODI series, but Virender Sehwag continues to be India's most valuable ODI player so far in the 2008-09 season.

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ODI career stats of the Indian squad for the Sri Lanka series.

Gautam Gambhir was the star performer for India with the bat with more than 1000 runs in both Tests and ODIs, that included three centuries each in both formats.

The MVPI is calculated based on the assumption that, in ODI cricket, batsmen offer the best value if they score a lot of runs with good strike rates, bowlers if they take a lot of wickets at good (low) economy rates, and fielders if they take the most catches or make the most run outs. The MVPI collapses the player's all-round performance into a single 'run equivalent'.

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Virender Sehwag tops the list with a MVPI of 1133; this contribution is even more noteworthy because he has played in only 12 of the 18 ODI matches played so far this season.

The original MRTP Act did not contain the phrase UTP; it was introduced in 1984 through an amendment. The phrase is open to interpretation yet, though the Supreme Court bench differed on its definition, the issue has not been sent to a larger bench.

Doctors at the hospital in suburban Bandra, where the actor is admitted, said the abdominal pain which Bachchan was suffering from, has been relieved due to the medicines he has been taking over the past two days. He is responding to the medication being administered and is likely to be discharged in the next two to three days, they said.

Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan, who is undergoing treatment for abdominal pain at Lilavati hospital, is in a stable condition and the tests conducted on him do not suggest any abnormality, doctors attending on him said on Sunday.

The actor, who turns 66 on Saturday, had slight fever on Friday night following which his stomach started paining. Sources close to the actor said Bachchan had gone to the hospital for a regular check-up.

A look the Test career statistics of the 15-man squad selected to play Australia in the first two Tests.

The Pakistan Cricket Board has dismissed reports that the BCCI attempted to get the Champions Trophy scrapped from the international calendar at the ICC meeting which postponed the eight-nation tourney, to be held in Karachi, until next year.

The Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday blamed India for the failure to finalise new dates for the Champions Trophy at the ICC's just concluded two-day meeting. Highly-placed PCB sources said that India had made this point during the ICC's chief executives committee meeting in Dubai, where fresh dates for the tournament were discussed but nothing was finalised.

After winning the International Cricket Council's ODI Player of the Year 2008 award, it is not such a big surprise that Mahendra Singh Dhoni is also India's most valuable ODI player so far in the 2008-09 season.

The ICC on Thursday deferred a decision on the new dates of the Champions Trophy till next month but said Pakistan still retained the right to host the prestigious tournament.

Former International Cricket Council president Ehsan Mani has advised the Pakistan Cricket Board to surrender the hosting rights of the Champions Trophy to avoid financial losses.

The ICC Executive Board will take a final decision on whether the Champions Trophy, which has been postponed till 2009, should remain in Pakistan or be relocated during a meeting in March next year.

The Pakistan Cricket Board on Sunday issued a veiled warning to International Cricket Council (ICC) that it will boycott the Champions Trophy if the tournament is relocated to another country. PCB Chief Operating Officer Shafqat Naghmi added that if the ICC decides to relocate the biennial tournament, Pakistan also reserves the right to boycott the event.

England, Australia and New Zealand are likely to join South Africa and withdraw from next month's Champions Trophy in Pakistan, Pakistan Cricket Board chief operating officer Shafqat Naghmi said.

Players' statistics for the India vs Sri Lanka ODIs.

Controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar was on Saturday asked by Pakistan Cricket Board to pay the fine of seven million rupees imposed on him or forget playing in next month's Champions Trophy.

India will take on defending champion Australia at Karachi on September 13 in their first match under the revised fixture for the Champions Trophy, beginning on September 12.

Statistical highlights of the Test matches played at Sinhalese Sports Club, venue of the first Test match between India and Sri Lanka, beginning in Colombo on Wednesday.

Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences claimed on Wednesday that they carried out the world's first robotic surgery to remove a tumour in the bladder which was leading to hypertension in the patient.

After nine one-dayers of the current 2008-09 season, the dashing opener is India's most valuable player (MVP) by a long mile.

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Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi and India's opener Gautam Gambhir proved to be the two most valuable players in the recently-concluded tri-series in Bangladesh.

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PVI and MVPI after the IPL league matches.

Mizoram has the highest incidence of four types of cancer in the world and the grim situation is caused mainly by extensive consumption of tobacco by the Mizo people including women, experts said. The lifestyle of the people of the state, especially their extensive consumption of tobacco coupled with consumption of smoked meat, leads to the high incidence of cancer. The way of initiating smoking habit to young people at the age of 13 by the Mizo society is also harmful.

It's interesting to look back at the IPL player auction in February 2008 and see if there are some lessons to learn from an event that shook the cricketing fraternity. These are random thoughts, and appearing in a random order, but influenced by our paisa vasool analysis.

The Australian police orchestrated to have Mohamed Haneef, wrongly accused of involvement in the failed UK car bombings, indefinitely detained in the country despite their own intelligence revealing the case was weak. Documents released under freedom-of-information laws have revealed that at the time Mohamed Haneef was charged with a terrorism-related offence, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions was aware that the case against him was weak, a report said.

After the first week of the DLF IPL, the Australians appeared to be dominating. From the second week onwards, especially after Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey, Brett Lee and Andrew Symonds left, the Indians seemed to be gaining ascendancy with fine performances from Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, the Pathan brothers and M S Dhoni.

Shane Watson currently tops the list, with Adam Gilchrist in second place. Michael Hussey and Matthew Hayden are still in the top 10 although they played just four matches.