Today's morning newspaper surprised me and left me speechless! Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli are both equally valuable player and "The Great" Sunil Gavaskar is ranked below Vinod Kambli in terms of "valuability". Come on! Get a life before publishing such kind of crap.
Immediately I searched on Cricinfo - interestingly the study uses batting averages to compute it's own definition of Valuable. All statistics below are courtesy to Cricinfo.
| Player | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 |
| Sehwag | 79 | 135 | 5 | 7039 | 319 | 54.14 | 8630 | 81.56 | 21 | 22 |
| Dravid | 142 | 245 | 28 | 11490 | 270 | 52.94 | 27133 | 42.34 | 29 | 58 |
| Sachin | 169 | 276 | 29 | 13837 | 248* | 56.02 | | | 48 | 56 |
| Kambli | 17 | 21 | 1 | 1084 | 227 | 54.2 | | | 4 | 3 |
| Sunil | 125 | 214 | 16 | 10122 | 236* | 51.12 | | | 34 | 45 |
First point, it takes only 17 tests for Kambli to be one of the most valuable players in Indian cricket history! Shouldn't there be a cap on minimum number of tests played to feature in the list?
