The 6th Vineet’s ODI Most Valuable Players 2011 (all teams) Rankings are out! You can check out the ODI Most Valuable Players 2010 here

Shane Watson was the Player of 2011! Heads and Shoulders above the rest. However with Australia on a slide probably he didn’t get much noticed. He score 1139 runs at an average of 57 and took 17 wickets at an average of 41.05 and eco rate of 4.81. He also took 13 catches. Stirling of Ireland came next scoring 450 runs at an ave of 40.9 and a strike rate of 120, and took 6 wickets at an ave of 54.5 and eco rate of 4.6. He also took 8 catches.

Shahid Afridi kept his form scoring 462 runs in 27 matches at an ave of 22 but a strike rate of 127. He took 45 wickets at an ave of 20.82 and a eco rate of 4.18. He took 8 catches to prove his worth at all platforms. This performance made him the 3rd most vaulable player of 2011.

RN ten Doeschate of Netherlands came 4th scoring 307 runs in just 6 matches he played, nevertheless at an average of 61.48 at a nice strike rate of 89.2!! But wait, while bowling he took 7 wickets in 6 matches at an average of 46 RPW to finish with an economy rate of 6.19!! He also took 2 catches. Great going indeed as ever.

Yuvraj Singh returned from injury and directly into form taking the 5th spot with an average of 50.3 at a strike rate of 81.9 while scoring 453 runs in 14 matches he played. He also took 6 catches. He took 20 wickets at an ave of 26.05 and a eco rate of 5. Astounding!

Where are the 2010 Most Valuable Players?

Only Shahid Afridi remained in Top 5. However Kallis and De Villiers did enough to be in the Top 12. However Tendulkar and Amla slipped away to just be under top 100.

S.No. Name Country
1 SR Tendulkar (India) 63
2 AB de Villiers (SA) 12
3 JH Kallis (SA) 11
4 HM Amla (SA) 89
5 Shahid Afridi (Pak) 3

*These rankings are based on Players who’ve played 5 matches or more. These rankings are prepared solely by myself based on owned algorithms. These have no relation with ICC or any other rankings calculated elsewhere in the world.

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The ODI Batsmen’s Ranking 2011 is out! Well January is back, and so is the Sixth edition of Vineet’s Cricket Rankings (check out the ODI Batsmen Rankings 2010 here)! And though there are some surprises, the top of the heap is captured by none other than super duper Virender Sehwag!! He hit the only second double century ever in ODI and the only one this year. He now has the highest score in One Dayers. Sehwag scored 645 runs averaging 53.75 in just 12 matches and a strike rate of 123.09. Although he way beyond Shane Watson’s aggregate of 1139 runs, but his astonishing strike rate pipped the scale in his favour. He smashed 1 double century and a century and 1 half-century on the way to achieving this. Shane Watson came second. He scored 1139 runs at an average of 56.95 and a strike rate of 108.89. He was unstoppable as he smashed 2 centuries and 8 half-centuries on the way to achieving this.

He is followed by AB de Villiers who scored 467 runs in just 10 matches at an average of 51.88 (much lower than last year) at a nice strike rate of 104.94!! He smashed 2 centuries and 2 half-centuries on the way to achieving this. RN Ten Doeschate (my all time favorite) made the cut at nomber 4 scoring 307 runs in just 6 matches at a high average of 61.4 at a good strike rate of 89.24! He smashed 2 centuries and 1 half-centuries in his 6 visits to the crease. Awesome! Stirling of Ireland scored 450 runs in 11 matches to come 5th. He did this at an average of 40.9 and a high strikerate of 119.68. This year’s highest strike rate in Top 30 was also an Irish – O Brien and his strike rate was 126.07 but his low average of 29.45 pegged him down at number 19.

But then who are the teams of 2011? Well India is way ahead of everyone with 7 batsmen in top 30 – an alltime record!! And 6 of them made it to the Top 20!! Again, an alltime record!! Everyone who plays in the top order made the list. South Africa is right there after them with 45 batmsen in Top 30. And next are English and the New Zealanders.

Where are the top 5 batsmen of the year 2010?

Although only Tillekratne Dilshan dropped out of top 30, we saw only de Villier maintain his form to the highest level. He’s made this 3 times consecutively, which makes him the most consistent Batsman of them all in the 2009-2011 period. Watch out!

1 HM Amla (SA) 11
2 AB de Villiers (SA) 3
3 AJ Strauss (Eng) 23
4 G Gambhir (India) 20
5 TM Dilshan (SL) 45

And the Indians? India is way ahead of everyone with 7 batsmen in top 30 – an alltime record!! And 6 of them made it to the Top 20!! Again, an alltime record!! Everyone who plays in the top order made the list. Manoj Tiwary was unlucky not to have made the cut having played only 5 matches. However his projected score makes the cut at 30th position and that takes the Indian Top 30 challengers to 8! Even Dravid could have made it to the Top 40 had he played more than 5 matches.

*These rankings are based on Players who’ve played 5 matches or more. These rankings are prepared solely by myself based on owned algorithms. These have no relation with ICC or any other rankings calculated elsewhere in the world.

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The ODI Bowler’s Ranking 2011 is out! in the Sixth edition of Vineet’s Cricket Rankings (Check out the ODI Bowler Rankings 2010 here)! And there are lots of surprises here, in fact, the bowling Top 30 almost got entirely revamped with a lot of new bowlers coming in. South Africans, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and West Indies did quite well to claim 4 spots in top 30. However, Pakistan with 3 in Top 10 stood heads over shoulders above others.

At the top of the heap are 2 people for the first time. Amit Mishra (India) and Saaed Ajmal (Pakistan) both claimed the Top Spot. Amit Mishra took 11 wickets for 199 runs at an average of 18.09 and an economy rate of 3.98. Saeed Ajmal with a superior economy rate of 3.48 and superior average of 17.08, however took 34 wickets for 584 runs in 20 matches at an inferior wickets per match average to tie with Amit. New find Vitori of Zimbabwe was 3rd taking 12 wickets for 200 runs at an average of 16.66 and an eco rate of 4.3. Tsotsobe again a new find from South Africa was 4th with 18 wickets for 295 runs at an ave of 16.38 and an eco rate of 4.4. Kyle Mills of NZ was 5th with 11 wickets for 236 runs at an ave of 21.45 and a very miserly eco rate of 4.02.

Now why did Australia not play Ryan Harris in 2011? A chronic knee injury ruled him out!

Where are the 2010 Top Bowlers?

All of the top 5 crashed out.

1 Nogoche (Kenya)  DNQ
2 Mirwais Ashraf (Afgh) DNQ
3 Odoyo (Kenya) DNQ
4 Harris (Aus)  DNP
5 Swann (Eng) 22  

Where are the Indians? Well we have the top 3 as Amit Mishra at 1, Zaheer at 15 and Jadeja at 27. Want to know who are performing for India? Well here are the stats, and you can even share these with the BCCI (assuming they don’t look at stats very often):

*These rankings are based on Players who’ve played 5 matches or more. These rankings are prepared solely by myself based on owned algorithms. These have no relation with ICC or any other rankings calculated elsewhere in the world.

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