Asia Cup MVP: India triumph but Bangladesh come of age

Bangladesh all-rounder Mahmudullah finished as the MVP in the recently-concluded Asia Cup T20 tournament ahead of compatriot Sabbir Rahman, who was named man of the series.
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle present the latest edition of the MVP rankings.

IMAGE: Bangladesh batsman Mahmudullah plays a shot during the Asia Cup final against India. Photograph: Solaris Images.

Although India won the recently-concluded Asia Cup T20 easily, the tournament will be best remembered as the moment when Bangladesh came of age in limited-overs' cricket.
It will be interesting to see how they fare in the ICC World Twenty20, which begins on Tuesday, March 15.

The Asia Cup featured a large number of low-scoring matches; a score of 120 in 20 overs was par, instead of 160 that we are more used to.

In a close fight for the top place in the Most Valuable Player (MVP) ranking, Mahmudullah edged out his compatriot Sabbir Rahman (who was picked as the Man of the Series).

Mahmudullah made it to the top chiefly because of his incredibly high strike rate (165.8) and because he also picked up four wickets at a fair economy rate.

The index to compute the MVP rewards batsmen who score a lot of runs quickly, bowlers who take wickets at low economy rates and fielders who field the best (take a lot of catches, and participate in run-outs).

This analysis does not include the scores in the qualifying games -- in which the UAE duo of Amjad Javed and Shaiman Anwar performed amazingly well.
The table below lists the top 50 players in the MVP list:

Rank	Player	Team	Runs	6s	4s	Str Rate	W	Eco	M	MVPI
1	Mahmudullah	BAN	121	6	8	165.8	4	4.7	5	237
2	Sabbir Rahman	BAN	176	5	14	123.9	0	-	5	226
3	Virat Kohli	IND	153	0	20	110.9	0	-	5	200
4	Rohit Sharma	IND	138	4	17	132.7	0	-	5	188
5	Dinesh Chandimal	SL	149	2	19	109.6	0	-	4	184
6	Tillakaratne Dilshan	SL	132	1	18	121.1	1	3.5	4	172
7	Shoaib Malik	PAK	121	4	13	112	2	6.3	4	157
8	Sarfraz Ahmed	PAK	121	2	14	130.1	0	-	4	157
9	Hardik Pandya	IND	33	1	4	137.5	7	5.9	5	140
10	MS Dhoni	IND	42	4	2	280	0	-	5	139
11	Yuvraj Singh	IND	89	4	10	111.3	2	4.8	5	132
12	Shakib Al Hasan	BAN	77	0	7	91.7	5	6.5	5	130
13	Soumya Sarkar	BAN	94	2	11	106.8	0	-	5	124
14	Umar Akmal	PAK	105	5	6	107.1	0	-	4	112
15	Nuwan Kulasekara	SL	20	0	3	117.6	7	6.3	4	110
16	Amjad Javed	UAE	43	2	3	91.5	8	8.1	4	110
17	Shaiman Anwar	UAE	103	3	10	94.5	0	-	4	101
18	Al-Amin Hossain	BAN	0	0	0	-	11	8	5	99
19	Mohammad Naveed	UAE	33	1	4	113.8	4	5.6	4	95
20	Mohammad Amir	PAK	1	0	0	12.5	7	5.1	4	93
21	Jasprit Bumrah	IND	0	0	0	-	6	5.2	5	90
22	Shikhar Dhawan	IND	79	1	12	111.3	0	-	4	87
23	Angelo Mathews	SL	38	0	3	79.2	1	5	3	84
24	Sharjeel Khan	PAK	52	2	8	130	0	-	4	72
25	Chamara Kapugedera	SL	54	1	3	101.9	0	-	4	71
26	Mohammad Irfan	PAK	0	0	0	-	5	5.4	4	69
27	Mashrafe Mortaza	BAN	14	0	2	100	5	7.1	5	68
28	Muhammad Usman	UAE	66	3	6	97.1	0	-	4	68
29	Taskin Ahmed	BAN	16	1	1	94.1	3	5.8	5	59
30	Ravichandran Ashwin	IND	0	0	0	-	4	6	4	58
31	Ashish Nehra	IND	0	0	0	-	6	7.1	4	57
32	Shehan Jayasuriya	SL	43	2	3	110.3	1	8.5	4	57
33	Lasith Malinga	SL	0	0	0	-	4	6.5	1	50
34	Mohammad Mithun	BAN	48	2	4	104.3	0	-	4	50
35	Mustafizur Rahman	BAN	0	0	0	-	3	6	3	44
36	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	IND	0	0	0	-	2	2	1	44
37	Suresh Raina	IND	39	0	4	90.7	0	9	5	44
38	Swapnil Patil	UAE	38	2	3	82.6	0	-	4	42
39	Ravindra Jadeja	IND	0	0	0	-	3	6.7	4	38
40	Rohan Mustafa	UAE	30	1	4	66.7	2	6.6	4	38
41	Mohammad Sami	PAK	8	0	1	50	3	6.2	3	34
42	Mushfiqur Rahim	BAN	40	0	2	74.1	0	-	5	34
43	Milinda Siriwardana	SL	35	1	1	109.4	1	10.3	4	33
44	Shahid Afridi	PAK	2	0	0	50	2	5.7	4	32
45	Mohammad Shahzad	UAE	18	1	2	85.7	3	8.1	4	30
46	Harbhajan Singh	IND	0	0	0	-	1	2.8	1	29
47	Rangana Herath	SL	0	0	0	-	3	6.5	4	28
48	Pawan Negi	IND	0	0	0	-	1	5.3	1	28
49	Mohammad Hafeez	PAK	31	0	6	81.6	0	-	4	28
50	Ahmed Raza	UAE	14	0	0	60.9	0	4.6	4	24

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