Cricket is, of course, a beautiful mix of numbers and sport, so far advanced of the primitive sports that most cavemen of the world still play.
Statmeister Wah's enhancement to the World Cup is a competition to decide the best player at the world cup. We will all find out in due course which is the World Champion country, but which player will prove himself the player of the greatest value to his team in the tournament, or the MVP - Majorly Voracious Participant.

Each player's overall positive contribution can be calculated in terms of runs worth to the team.
Positive:
Runs scored
Batting at a high strike rate
Wickets taken
Bowling with a low economy rate
Catches taken
Stumpings
Run outs

Negative contributions:
Getting dismissed
Batting at a low strike rate
Conceding runs
Bowling at a high economy rate

The top 5 performers in each match will be awarded 5,4,3,2,1 points and the player collecting the most of these points during the tournament will be the MVP. This system whould reward players who regularly make one of the largest contributions to a match.

West Indies v Pakistan
A good all-round performance from Dwayne Romel Smith (32 runs off 15 balls and 3-36) earned him the man of the match award and, more importantly, the first 5 points for this competition

Points awarded with net positive contribution (in runs) as follows.

5 DR Smith 74
4 MN Samuels 52
3 Shoaib Malik 43
2 Iftikhar Anjum 37
1 DJ Bravo 36

Any predictions for the eventual overall MVP?