MPV: Gambhir on top

India's left-hander Gautam Gambhir, after his second century of the tournament on Sunday, leads the list of Most Valuable Players (MVP) in the ongoing CB tri-series.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is placed third; possibly because his strike rate is a mere 70 in this series (his career average is 92).

The Australian trio of pace bowlers -- Brett Lee, Mitchell Johnson and Nathan Bracken -- is doing very well, and currently hold the second, fourth and seventh places.

Table 1: The most valuable players in the Commonwealth Bank series (10 matches so far)

Rank	Player	Country	Runs	Balls	batpts	Rc	Bb	W	bwlpts	Ct\|St	Run Outs	fldpts	M	Total
1	Gautam Gambhir	Ind	359	423	379.6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	379.6
2	Nathan Bracken	Aus	2	17	-9.6	245	353	14	373.4	1	0	5	7	368.8
3	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	Ind	296	420	256	0	0	0	0	11\|2	0.5	87	7	343
4	Mitchell Johnson	Aus	18	31	11.2	154	306	10	330.8	0	0	0	6	342
5	Adam Gilchrist	Aus	230	268	246	0	0	0	0	15\|2	0	95	7	340.6
6	KC Sangakkara	SL	282	379	261	0	0	0	0	5\|2	1	69	6	329.8
7	Brett Lee	Aus	12	43	-10.4	210	256	13	306.8	2	0.5	22	5	318.4
8	James Hopes	Aus	87	83	108	124	234	5	183.2	1	0	5	6	295.8
9	Michael Clarke	Aus	293	405	262	50	66	0	2.8	3	0	15	7	279.8
10	Harbhajan Singh	Ind	54	42	74.4	178	246	4	114.8	0	2.5	60	7	249.2
11	SL Malinga	SL	7	28	-8.4	284	340	10	228	0	0.5	12	6	231.6
12	Irfan Pathan	Ind	106	162	82.4	237	258	7	137.4	1	0	5	7	224.8
13	Ricky Ponting	Aus	188	245	180	0	0	0	0	4	1	44	7	224
14	Ishant Sharma	Ind	5	17	-3.6	212	265	9	216	2	0	10	7	222.4
15	Rohit Sharma	Ind	164	212	158	0	0	0	0	3	1.5	51	7	209.4
16	Michael Hussey	Aus	184	258	162	0	0	0	0	3	0.5	27	7	188.6
17	Brad Hogg	Aus	41	66	29.2	165	225	6	159	0	0	0	5	188.2
18	Stuart Clark	Aus	8	10	8	119	216	5	173.8	1	0	5	4	186.8
19	M Muralitharan	SL	11	14	10.8	257	330	6	151	3	0	15	6	176.8
20	DPMD Jayawardene	SL	161	220	146	0	0	0	0	6	0	30	6	176
21	Mathew Hayden	Aus	161	232	136	0	0	0	0	2	1	34	6	170.4
22	WPUJC Vaas	SL	19	32	12.4	241	336	5	147.8	0	0	0	6	160.2
23	MKDI Amerasinghe	SL	11	17	8.4	192	240	6	144	0	0	0	5	152.4
24	TM Dilshan	SL	89	87	108	19	12	0	-9.4	3	1.5	51	5	150
25	Andrew Symonds	Aus	101	122	104	32	35	0	-4	4	1	44	7	144.4
26	S Sreesanth	Ind	8	11	7.2	189	188	7	129.4	0	0	0	6	136.6
27	Sachin Tendulkar	Ind	128	173	118	21	24	0	-1.8	2	0	10	7	125.8
28	Virender Sehwag	Ind	81	103	79.6	66	78	1	20.4	1	0.5	17	5	117
29	Yuvraj Singh	Ind	118	145	120	76	90	0	-4	0	0	0	6	116
30	MF Maharoof	SL	10	20	4	152	187	4	93.6	1	0.5	17	4	114.6
31	Robin Uthappa	Ind	84	123	69.6	0	0	0	0	3	0	15	7	84.6
32	Munaf Patel	Ind	0	9	-7.2	69	108	2	65.4	0	1	24	2	82.2
33	ST Jayasuriya	SL	46	40	60	38	30	0	-14	1	1	29	6	75
34	KMDN Kulasekara	SL	0	7	-5.6	93	96	3	55.8	1	0	5	2	55.2
35	CK Kapugedera	SL	27	67	0.4	77	96	1	23.8	2	0.5	22	5	46.2
36	Praveen Kumar	Ind	6	8	5.6	49	60	0	-1	1	1	29	1	33.6
37	Ashley Noffke	Aus	0	0	0	46	54	1	21.2	0	0	0	1	21.2
38	WU Tharanga	SL	10	18	5.6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5.6
39	LPC Silva	SL	44	119	-7.2	0	0	0	0	2	0	10	6	2.8
40	Dilruwan Perera	SL	1	11	-6.8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-6.8
41	Brad Haddin	Aus	5	31	-14.8	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	2	-9.8
42	Manoj Tiwari	Ind		16	-12.8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-12.8

Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh continue to be India's most valuable players in the 2007-08 season, although their Australian ODI outings have been far less distinguished.

Dhoni and Gambhir have been the two other successful players. Zaheer Khan, R P Singh and Sourav Ganguly too were doing very well-till they were felled by injuries and the selectors respectively.

Table 2: India's most valuable players of the 2007-08 season (33 matches so far)

Rank	Player	Runs	Balls	Bat-pts	Rc	Bb	W	Bowl-pts	Ct\|St	Run outs	Field-pts	M	Total
1	Sachin Tendulkar	1243	1525	1266	268	258	5	58.4	7	0.5	47	30	1371.4
2	Yuvraj Singh	1049	1259	1090.8	541	561	11	171.8	7	2.5	95	32	1357.6
3	M S Dhoni	973	1260	938	0	0	0	0	30\|13	5	400	31	1338
4	Gautam Gambhir	922	1180	900	0	0	0	0	2	0	10	25	910
5	Sourav Ganguly	611	850	542	300	348	5	98.4	1	1	29	20	669.4
6	Zaheer Khan	148	208	129.6	1000	1160	22	456	2	2.5	70	22	655.6
7	Irfan Pathan	237	338	203.6	789	869	19	362.2	4	0	20	19	585.8
8	R P Singh	26	55	8	788	885	24	496	2	2	58	18	562
9	Harbhajan Singh	155	161	181.2	617	810	11	295	5	2.5	85	17	561.2
10	Robin Uthappa	406	432	466.4	0	0	0	0	8	2	88	21	554.4
11	Rahul Dravid	462	554	480.8	0	0	0	0	10	0.5	62	20	542.8
12	Piyush Chawla	20	34	12.8	538	666	17	402.8	8	0.5	52	13	467.6
13	S Sreesanth	26	64	0.8	549	554	22	422.2	3	0	15	13	438
14	Rohit Sharma	225	286	221.2	3	6	0	1.8	6	1.5	66	11	289
15	Ramesh Powar	46	78	29.6	528	668	10	246.4	2	0	10	13	286
16	Virender Sehwag	210	243	225.6	149	162	2	28.6	3	0.5	27	10	281.2
17	Murali Kartik	37	48	35.6	300	377	10	241.6	0	0	0	7	277.2
18	Dinesh Karthik	180	217	186.4	0	0	0	0	12\|1	0.5	82	13	268.4
19	Ajit Agarkar	19	38	7.6	415	414	12	204.2	2	0.5	22	8	233.8
20	Ishant Sharma	5	17	-3.6	250	307	9	211.6	2	0	10	8	218
21	Munaf Patel	1	12	-7.6	277	324	8	174.2	1	1	29	7	195.6
22	Dinesh Mongia	34	41	35.2	106	108	3	52.4	0	0	0	2	87.6
23	Praveen Kumar	18	21	19.2	99	120	0	-3	1	1	29	2	45.2
24	Manoj Tiwari	-	16	-12.8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-12.8