Who is the Most Valuable Player ?

Yes I do think that Muralidharan is the currently the best player even though he has not played for several months due tu injury.But I don't think  Mohammed Rafique desrves to be third in the world MVP test rankings.It should rather be Shane Warne, Glen Mcrath, Anil Kumble or Jacques Kallis.

MVP in bowling has 2 b Muralitharan without Sri Lanka r nothing. While the MVP in batting has 2 b Inzamam for the reason if he does well Pakistan do good and if he has a bad game Pakistan suffer too. Inzamam has just go a hundred emphasising my point.

While in ODI I think its a close call but being an Pakistani fan Shahid Afridi is probably the best all rounder at the moment with bat and ball he is awesome at the moment. A future captain for Pakistan mayb? 

Who what u say r da top ten batsmen in the da world right now. Heres what I think.

1. Brian Lara

2. Ricky Ponting

3. Jacques Kallis

4. Inzamam Ul Haq

5. Rahul Dravid

6. Graeme Smith

7. Matthew Hayden

8. Damien Martyn

9. Yousuf Youhana

10. Virender Sehwag

 

Now comes the best all rounders.

1. Shahid Afridi

2. Abdul Razzaq

3. Andrew Flintoff

4. Chris Ga yle

5. Jacob Oram

Originally posted by IMRAN How about the top ten bowlers. 1. Glenn McGarth 2. Muttiah Murlitharan 3. Shane Warne 4. Shoaib Akhtar 5. Shaun Pollock 6. Chaminda Vaas 7. Brett Lee 8. Ntini 9. Jason Gillespie 10. Shane Bond

not a bad list although brett lee couldn't get a game for australian for the last 18 months so should kasprowitch (spelling!!$#$) be ahead of him?

no mention of Jacques Kallis in ur list of all-rounders.
and even though i am a pakistani fan i don think shahid afridi is the best all rounder, his bowling is okay but his batting is not consistent at all so he can't be best all rounder, and Abdul razzaq was a great all rounder but his bowling has certainly declined. i think Andrew Flintoff is the best all rounder and Kallis is 2nd. flintoff and kallis have some competition for first place but flintoff is better cause he bowls and bats well, kallis hasn't been bowling very well lately. Chris ***le is okay at number 3 and Abdul razzaq should be number 4 and then Jacob Oram should be last.

so here's my list of the best all rounders:
1. Andrew Flintoff
2. Jacques Kallis
3. Chris ***le
4. Abdul Razzaq
5. Jacob Oram

i don think shahid should in the list of best allrounders at all, he's just not good enough. his batting is very entertaining to watch but it doesn't last very long most of the times so he jus cant be in the list of the best all rounders.

Just my opinion, but I find that Inzaman is a bit Lazy between the wickets although he has great technique and ability.

True, at this point there is no doubt that Andrew Flintoff deserves to be number one MVP over every other player in internation cricket today, even inzamam cause a big inzamam fan. Andrew Flintoff saved the last match for England, because Australia were somewhere around 277 for 2, when Andrew Flintoff suddenly just ripped Australia's batting order apart.

First of all, nobody cares about how Jacques Kallis was performing 2 years ago. The machines that do the rankings don’t look at how he was doing 2 years ago, and they don't look at how his over all averages are. The machines look at how consistent lately and how he has been performing lately. And i know that Jacques Kallis has not even been performing close to as good as Flintoff has. As you mentioned, Flintoff took 24 wickets at an average of 26 and 380 runs @ an average of 40. But Kallis only performed very well 2 years ago, so why don't you (superbokkie) tell us how Kallis has performed in 2005 cause nobody cares about how he performed 2 years ago. It doesn't matter if Kallis' bowling averages were in the mid twenties in 2003 and his average was consistently above 50, cause now he isn't that good. Lately Kallis has made no match winning performances, while Flintoff has made a series winning performance, which is why he was the man of the series for the ashes series this year. Take for example his extraordinary performance in the last ashes test when Australia were 277 for 2 and then Flintoff destroyed Australia’s' batting order taking 6 wickets, and bringing Australia from 277 for 2 to somewhere around 365 all out. If it weren't for Flintoff there was no way England could have won the last match, or the whole Ashes series. Flintoff was the hero of the Ashes series, he deserves to be praised for his amazing performance in the ashes and he deserves to be number one MVP. But you’re right that Statistically Jacques Kallis is the best all rounder since Sir Garfield Sobers. But currently Flintoff is the best.

     Shane Warne is not the best bowler or slow bowler. Muttiah is a way better bowler than Shane. Muttiah’s bowling average of 22 is better than Shane’s 25, Muttiah’s strike rate of 56 is better Shane’s 57, Muttiah’s 14 Ten Wicket hauls are way better than Shane’s 10, Ten wicket hauls, Muttiah’s 47 five wicket hauls are way better than Shane’s 32, Muttiah’s economy rate of 2.34 is better than Shane’s 2.61. The only reason Shane has more wickets is because he has played more matches than Muttiah. Muttiah has played only 95 tests while Shane has played 128. When Shane Warne is gone, Muttiah will easily beat his record. Muttiah is the better player out of Shane Warne and himself.

I agree that Shane Warne did perform very well in the Ashes and deserves to be MVP over Muttiah Muralitharan. I also agree that even in 2005 Kallis has statistically performed better than Flintoff. But the thing is that Kallis hasn't played for a month or two now, but Flintoff just made an amazing performance in the ashes series and the MVP ratings are updated after every series so after the Flintoffs amazing ashes performance he clearly deserves to be the all rounder MVP.

srry, superbokkie, i didn't know that Kallis was actually performing so well this year.(i don't mean it sarcastically) An average above 70, That's extroadinary for an allrounder.

New MVP in my books. One AC Gilchrist, the most devastating one day batsman since Tendulkar was in his pomp.

hey, i already mentioned that currently shane is way better than murali. but u are correct that a lot of muralis wickets have come at the hands of weak opponents, infact almost 1/5 of murali's wickets have come from bangladesh and zimbabwe.

Quite right Superbokkie, Adam Gilchrist is the Cricket World MVP in the ODI overall and batting Ratings at present:

http://www.cricketworld.com/ratings/mvp/