Who is the most valuable player of the IPL so far? The answer might be a surprise: Shane – not Warne, but Watson. But before you get ready to shoot off an outraged mail, consider our logic.

After some serious number crunching, we arrived at an index of IPL performance for all those who have played till the 30th match of the tournament – Friday’s clash between Team Jaipur and Team Hyderabad. Not surprisingly, a few of the icons figure way down on the list with Ganguly at No. 51 and Dravid ranked 88th. Sehwag at No.2 is the top-ranked icon, followed by Yuvraj at No. 7 and Dhoni at No. 14.

Jaipur, not surprisingly, has the most players in the top 10 with Shane Warne and Yusuf Pathan joining Watson.

Mohali have Yusuf’s more famous brother Irfan, in that elite club. Delhi, interestingly, has nobody apart from Sehwag, though it does have Gambhir at No. 11.

But where are these ranks coming from? We assigned batting, bowling and fielding points to each player based on his performance. We also assigned captaincy points based on team performance. We then totalled up all these points.