WHICH COUNTRY'S PLAYERS HAVE MADE THE BIGGEST IMPACT ON IPL?

Players from all Test playing countries barring Pakistan have found places in the squads of eight different teams in the IPL 2009. It will be interesting to see which country’s players have made the biggest impact in the tournament. At the time of writing these lines, 42 games have been played in the second edition of IPL in which 154 players have represented 8 different teams.
The country-wise break-up of these 154 players is as under:.

Australia	England	India	New Zealand	South Africa	Sri Lanka	West Indies
18	5	97	6	14	10	4
Mashrafe Mortaza and Mohammad Ashraful are Bangladesh’s representatives in this tournament, but both of them haven’t got a single game so far.

The following table gives a break-up of batting performances of players from each country:

Country-wise break-up of batsmen’s performances in the IPL 2009
Country	Inns	NO	Runs	Hs	Avg	100s	50s
Australia	69	12	1604	89	28.14	0	9
England	19	1	347	84	19.28	0	1
India	365	89	5116	98	18.54	0	18
New Zealand	29	5	493	84	20.54	0	2
South Africa	72	20	1674	105	32.19	1	13
Sri Lanka	44	11	909	67	27.55	0	7
West Indies	24	4	601	70	30.05	0	2
TOTAL	622	142	10744	105	23.74	1	52

South African players have managed the highest batting average, thanks to the heroics of JP Duminy, Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers. They are followed by West Indians and Australians. Indian batsmen have managed the lowest batting average, but this average is skewed somewhat as most of the tail-enders are Indians. What is interesting is the performance of English batsmen. The likes of Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff, Ravi Bopara and Graham Napier were expected to put on a much better show than a combined batting average of just over 19.

The following table gives a break-up of bowling performances of players from each country. Sri Lankans have achieved the lowest bowling average thanks to Lasith Malinga and Muttiah Muralitharan. New Zealand come next with Daniel Vettori and Scott Styris doing most of the damage.

What is intriguing is the performance of West Indies bowlers. Despite the success of Dwayne Bravo and Fidel Edwards, the combined bowling average of all West Indies bowlers has been over 40, which is due to the fact that Chris Gayle managed just one wicket in seven games, while Dwayne Smith has not managed any wicket in as many games.

Country-wise break-up of bowlers' performances in the IPL 2009
Country	Overs	Runs	Wkts	Best	Avg	SR	RpO
Australia	134.4	1024	35	3-27	29.26	23.09	7.60
England	48.4	354	13	3-20	27.23	22.46	7.27
India	943.4	6924	277	5-5	25.00	20.44	7.34
New Zealand	55	433	18	3-15	24.06	18.33	7.87
South Africa	135	1066	41	4-31	26.00	19.76	7.90
Sri Lanka	114.5	762	35	3-11	21.77	19.69	6.64
West Indies	79.1	607	15	3-34	40.47	31.66	7.67
TOTAL	1511	11170	434	5-5	25.74	20.89	7.39

Percentage-contribution is a good measure of a player's usefulness for his team. The following is a list of Top-10 batsmen, who have scored the highest percentage of their team runs. The first four places go to the Australians with Matthew Hayden right on the top. There is only one Indian name in this list - Suresh Raina at number 10' which clearly shows that the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni, Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambhir etc have all under-performed in this tournament.

Batsmen with highest percentage of team runs
%	Player	For	Runs	Team Runs	Mts	Inns	NO	Hs	Avg	100ss	50s	0
28.38	ML Hayden (Aus)	CSK	426	1501	9	9	0	89	47.33	0	3	0
26.95	A Symonds (Aus)	DC	90	334	2	2	1	60*	90.00	0	1	0
26.42	DA Warner (Aus)	DD	144	545	4	4	0	51	36.00	0	1	0
24.86	DJ Hussey (Aus)	KKR	43	173	1	1	0	43	43.00	0	0	0
23.59	MN van Wyk (SA)	KKR	167	708	5	5	2	74	55.67	0	1	1
21.94	AB de Villiers (SA)	DD	271	1235	9	7	3	105*	67.75	1	2	1
21.18	BJ Hodge (Aus)	KKR	240	1133	9	9	2	73	34.29	0	2	1
20.64	DR Smith (WI)	DC	214	1037	7	7	0	49	30.57	0	0	0
20.60	J-P Duminy (SA)	MI	297	1442	10	9	3	59*	49.50	0	4	1
20.59	SK Raina (Ind)	CSK	309	1501	9	9	0	98	34.33	0	1	0

A similar list for the bowlers throws some interesting names. Dillon du Preez has appeared in just two games for Royal Challengers Bangalore, but he took 4 of the six wickets taken by his team, which gives him a high percentage of 66.66.

Unlike the batsmen's list, more Indian names are in this list, but RP Singh, the holder of Purple Cap, is a surprise exclusion.

Bowlers with highest percentage of team wickets
%	Player	For	Wkts	Team Wkts	Mts	Balls	Runs	Best	4W	Avg	SR	RpO
66.66	D du Preez (SA)	RCB	4	6	2	42	56	3-32	0	14.00	10.50	8.001
40.00	Amit Singh (Ind)	RR	8	20	3	66	53	4-19	1	6.63	8.25	4.82
33.33	B Lee (Aus)	KXIP	2	6	2	48	49	1-24	0	24.50	24.00	6.13
32.56	YA Abdulla (SA)	KXIP	14	43	9	168	241	4-31	2	17.21	12.00	8.61
31.25	SB Styris (NZ)	DC	5	16	2	48	64	3-32	0	12.80	9.60	8.00
30.56	SB Jakati (Ind)	CSK	11	36	5	84	101	4-22	2	9.18	7.64	7.21
28.57	WPUJC Vaas (SL)	DC	2	7	1	24	19	2-19	0	9.50	12.00	4.75
28.00	A Nehra (Ind)	DD	14	50	8	192	226	3-27	0	16.14	13.71	7.06
27.50	I Sharma (Ind)	KKR	11	40	10	234	274	2-15	0	24.91	21.27	7.03
26.32	SL Malinga (SL)	MI	15	57	10	225	227	3-11	0	15.13	15.00	6.05