IPL 4: Gayle, Dhoni, Sanga are at the top of MVP pile

It doesn't take any
number crunching
to figure out that
Chris Gayle has
been the most
valuable player
(MVP) of the
league stage of IPL
4, but would you
have guessed that
the next most
valuable are MS
Dhoni and Kumar
Sangakkara or
that Paul Valthaty
is the only one in
the top 10 on the
list who is not an
international
player?
Gayle's fireworks may have lit up
the second half of the league
stage, but Valthaty remains the
most value for money (VFM)
player, ahead of S Aravind and
Rahul Sharma. Interestingly, the
bulk of the top 10 in the VFM list
are not out of the tournament
yet.
Behind Gayle, Dhoni and Sanga in
the MVP list are Lasith Malinga,
the tournament's top wicket-
taker by some distance, Virender
Sehwag, Yusuf Pathan, Shane
Watson, Valthaty, Johan Botha
and Shaun Marsh.
With the obvious exception of
Valthaty, none of these names
comes close to making it to the
top of the VFM list. Considering
that most of them rake in annual
fees in excess of a million dollars
while uncapped Indian players
have to make do with $50,000,
that should caused no surprise.
As before, therefore, the rest of
the top 10 on the VFM list are
also local players who have more
than pulled their weight for their
squads. After the top three come
Ambatti Rayudu, Iqbal Abdullah,
Manish Pandey, Amit Singh,
Sunny Sohal, Rajat Bhatia and B A
Bhatt, the King XI bowler, in that
order.
We aren't just pulling these
names out of a hat. Some serious
number crunching is behind
these assertions. Here's what we
did. Batting points were
calculated on the principle that
both the quantity of runs scored
and how fast they are scored
should count. So we took a strike
rate of 130 as a par value. The
total runs scored by each
batsman was multiplied by his
actual strike rate and divided by
this par figure. Thus, a batsman
who has scored, say, 300 runs in
the tournament so far would get
batting points equal to 300 if he
has scored at a strike rate of 130,
fewer points if he has
accumulated them slower and
more if he has got them at a
better clip.
For bowlers, we used the
principle that both economy and
wicket-taking should count. An
economy rate of 7.5 runs per
over was used as the benchmark.
Bowlers with a better economy
rate than this were regarded as
having saved runs for their team.
For instance, if a bowler has
been going at 6 runs per over
and has bowled 40 overs, he
would actually have conceded
240 runs. At the average rate he
would have conceded 300. So he
is given 60 points for saving
those many runs. Every wicket
gets him 25 points.
Fielding points are given for
catches, run outs and stumpings.
Catches count for 10 points, run
outs for 15. In the case of
wicket-keepers, however,
catches and stumpings fetch 25
points each, since they are in the
side mainly for fielding.
Finally, captains are given points
for the performance of their
teams, 25 points for each win
and minus 25 for each loss.
Adding all of these points
together gives us the total points
accumulated by each player.
Since it would be unfair to
compare someone who has
played, say, ten matches with
another who has played all 14,
we then divided the total points
by the number of matches played
by each player to get the points
per match. This was the basis for
the MVP rankings. The VFM
rankings were obtained by
dividing the points per match by
the fees payable to each player
per match to get a figure for the
number of points per $100,000.
To ensure that a couple of
outstanding performances don't
unduly skew the results, we took
only those who had played at
least nine matches. What is
interesting is that the MVP list is
dominated by multi-skilled
players with the exception of
Malinga who has accumulated
points almost entirely from his
bowling alone.
In contrast, the VFM list has a
preponderance of those who
have got points mainly from their
bowling, like Aravind, Rahul
Sharma and Iqbal Abdullah, and a
couple who have contributed
mainly with the bat like Sunny
Sohal and Manish Pandey. This is
a departure from the past when
both indices tended to yield
predominantly all-rounders at the
top.*@Player Team M Batting
Pts Bowling
Pts Fielding
Pts Captaincy
Pts Total
Pts Pts/
Match
CH Gayle RCB 9 797 158 20 975 108
MS Dhoni CSK 14 451 0 285 100 836 60
KSangakkara DC 13 365 0 475 -75 765 59
SL Malinga MI 14 0 756 60 816 58
V Sehwag DD 11 624 0 90 -75 639 58
YK Pathan KKR 14 311 383 65 758 54
SR Watson RR 11 359 179 40 578 53
PC Valthaty KXIP 14 529 167 20 716 51
J Botha RR 10 223 206 75 504 50
SE Marsh KXIP 14 615 0 60 675 48
Minimum qualification: 9
matches

16-year-old from Hyderabad youngest IIT-JEE topper

MUMBAI: Like the
past six years, IIT-
Bombay zone,
home to Kota, will
send the largest
pool of students
to the Indian
Institutes of
Technology. Top
honours, however,
went to the
southern zone
that produced
possibly the
youngest-ever rank 1 – 16-year-
old Prudhvitej Immadi of
Hyderabad – and bagged four
other slots in the top 10.
Of the seven zones (sliced on the
basis of the old IITs), the western
region saw the highest number
of students qualify – 3,336. IIT-
Madras zone will send 3,126
candidates to the 15 tech
schools. Delhi zone took third
place with 2,138 successful
candidates, with Dravyansh
Sharma of DPS Ghaziabad
ranking seventh overall.
Among the top-100 students, 32
come from the western zone
while 30 are from the south. The
IIT-Bombay zone has the highest
number of candidates in the top
1,000 ranks — 290. The best
ratio of number of students who
appeared to those who qualified
in the JEE went to IIT-Madras
zone. In all, 13,602 students
cleared the exam.
"Only 481 students of the 8,325
students who took the JEE from
Mumbai city qualified. Another
1,508 candidates out of 39,483
from Rajasthan, many of whom
prepared from coaching centres
in Kota, made the cut," said Jaya
Joshi, IIT-Bombay's public
relation officer.
In all, of the 4.68 lakh students
who took the JEE in April, 13,602
qualified; another 400-odd
candidates have been shortlisted
to join the year-long preparatory
course.
Rajasthan boy Shubham Mehta
topped the IIT-Bombay zone at
AIR2 (All India Rank); Dravyansh
Sharma (rank 7) from the IIT-
Delhi region; Archit Gupta (rank
14) was on top in the IIT-Kanpur
area; Ankit Jalan (rank 45) from
the IIT-Kharagpur zone; Kunal
Chawla (rank 6) from the IIT-
Roorkee region and Amol (rank
41) from the IIT-Guwahati zone
were the region-wise toppers.
Overall scores and subject-wise
cut-offs went up a bit. Faculty
attributed the rise to the errors
in the question paper, for which
the IITs had no option but to
give marks to everyone.
IIT-Kanpur director said across
India, the performance of
reserved category students
improved. Of the 2,545 OBC
candidates who qualified, 1,540
made it to the common merit list.
In case of SC students, of the
1,950 who qualified, 122 made it
without the handicap of score
relaxation and of the 645 ST
candidates shortlisted to join the
IITs, 33 made it to the common
rank list.
In all, the 15 IITs, IT-BHU and ISM
Dhanbad, have 9,618 seats. Of
these, 4,858 are for the general
category, 2,597 for OBCs, 1442
for SCs and 721 for STs.

Gambhir likely to miss Windies tour with sore shoulder

MUMBAI: Gautam Gambhir has
been advised rest for six weeks
to nurse his "sore shoulder" and
is likely to miss the West Indies
tour starting June 4. Suresh
Raina will be leading the team in
the one-day international series
in Gambhir's absence.
Gambhir, the Kolkata Knight
Riders captain, was carrying a
shoulder injury right through out
the Indian Premier League (IPL)
and on Wednesday looked in
pain while playing against
Mumbai Indians in the eliminator
at the Wankhede Stadium. He had
injured his shoulder during the
final of the World Cup against Sri
Lanka in April.
Knight Riders' team physio
Andrew Leipus, in a letter to the
Board of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI), said that Gambhir
needs at least four-six weeks of
rest and also asked the board's
medical committee to look into
the player's injury management.
"The clinical findings supported
the mechanism of the onset of
the acute injury, however, he did
report having corticosteroid
injections on two occasions over
the previous few years. In the
last match where KKR played MI,
Gautam again felt an aggravation
of the shoulder pain on one
particular throw," Leipus said in
his letter.
"On arrival in Mumbai we
thought it was prudent to get
both an MRI and a consultation
with a leading shoulder
orthopaedic surgeon. Both the
doctor and myself believe that he
should follow an intensive,
supervised and conservative
rehabilitation pathway. But for
the best outcome, he will need to
avoid both throwing and batting
for a period of 4-6 weeks," the
letter said.
"In this regard, I would expect
that the BCCI medical committee
would need to consider the
ongoing management of
Gautam's shoulder injury beyond
the IPL and the possibility of his
missing any immediate future
tours until the shoulder is fully
rehabilitated," the letter added.
Gambhir was appointed skipper
for the West Indies tour in the
absence of Mahendra Singh
Dhoni, who was advised rest

Samsung chat 350 full specifications

Also known as Samsung Chat
C3500
GENERAL 2G
Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Announced 2011, February
Status Available. Released 2011,
February
SIZE Dimensions 99.5 x 52 x 15.5 mm
Weight 99.8 g
DISPLAY Type TFT resistive touchscreen, 256K
colors
Size 320 x 240 pixels, 2.4 inches
- QWERTY keyboard
- Touch Wiz Lite 2.0 UI
SOUND Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
MEMORY Phonebook 1000 entries, Photocall
Call
records Yes
Internal 20 MB
Card slot microSD, up to 8GB, buy memory
DATA GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48
kbps
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G No
WLAN No
Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
Infrared
port No
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
CAMERA Primary 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels
Video Yes, QCIF@15fps
Secondary No
FEATURES Messaging SMS(threaded view), , MMS, Email,
Push Email, IM
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS; FM
recording
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors Black, White, Silver
GPS No
Java Yes, MIDP 2.1
- SNS integration
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player
- MP4/H.263 player
- Organizer
- Voice memo
- Predictive text input
BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Ion 960 mAh
Stand-by Up to 666 h
Talk time Up to 12 h
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NEW NOKIA C6 SPECIFICATIONS

GENERAL 2G
Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G
Network HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
Announced 2010, April
Status Available. Released 2010, July
SIZE Dimensions 113 x 53 x 16.8 mm, 80 cc
Weight 150 g
DISPLAY Type TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M
colors
Size 360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches
- QWERTY keyboard
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-
off
- Accelerometer sensor for UI
auto-rotate
SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes, check quality
MEMORY Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and
fields, Photocall
Call
records Detailed, max 30 days
Internal 240 MB
Card slot microSD, up to 16GB, 2GB
included, buy memory
DATA GPRS Class 32
EDGE Class 32
3G HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared
port No
USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB
CAMERA Primary 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels,
autofocus, LED flash, check
quality
Features Geo-tagging
Video Yes, VGA@30fps
Secondary Yes, QVGA
FEATURES OS Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
CPU 434 MHz ARM 11 processor
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors White, Black
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Yes, MIDP 2.1
- Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk,
Windows Live Messenger
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player
- MP4/H.264/WMV player
- Document viewer (Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, PDF)
- Flash Lite v3.1
- Voice command/dial
- Predictive text input
BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200
mAh (BL-4J)
Stand-by Up to 384 h (2G) / Up to 384 h
(3G)
Talk time Up to 7 h (2G) / Up to 5 h (3G)
Music play Up to 30 h
MISC SAR US 1.20 W/kg (head) 1.21 W/kg
(body)
SAR EU 1.05 W/kg (head)