Most Valuable Player in IPL 2024: Sunil Narine Wins MVP Award For Third Time

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Kolkata Knight Riders star Sunil Narine won the the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award for the record third time with his stunning performances with both bat and ball in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024.

With second-placed Virat Kohli already out of the race after Royal Challengers Bengaluru crashed out of the season following defeat to Rajasthan Royals, KKR's Narine did not face any other challenge in the race for player of the tournament award in the final.

Narine, who celebrated his birthday on the IPL 2024 Final day - May 26, scored 488 runs, including a century and 3 fifties, in 14 innings at a strike rate of 179.85. He has also struck 33 sixes and 50 fours, and claimed 17 wickets at an economy rate of 6.69.

Sunrisers Hyderabad trio of Travis Head, Pat Cummins and Abhishek Sharma also feature in the top 10, but could not catch up on Narine at the top. Here is a look at the Most Valuable Player in IPL 2024 top 10 list:

IPL 2024 MVP Leaderboard

Narine's teammate Andre Russell also entered the top 10 during the IPL 2024 Final against SRH. The MVP was introduced in the Indian Premier League from the 2013 season and prior to that a player of the tournament award was given to the best player of the IPL season from 2008 to 2012.

How is IPL MVP ranked and how are the points distributed?

The Most Valuable Player in IPL is ranked based on special rating system, which rewards players points for every four, six, wicket, dot ball, catches, run outs and stumpings.

For every four, a player earns 2.5 points, for a six - 3.5 points, for a wicket - 3.5 points, for a dot ball - 1 point and for every catch or stumping 2.5 points. All these points totalled together at the end of the season (after the final) will earn the top player of the list a MVP trophy.

As mentioned earlier, the player of the tournament (IPL man of the series) award was changed to IPL MVP by the organizers in 2013 and so far there have been 13 different players that have won the award in the 17 seasons so far with two players winning the award twice, and one player thrice.

Most MVP Awards in IPL history

Former Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals star Shane Watson, who won the first ever MVP award in 2013 and the first ever Man of the Series award in 2008, has won the award twice. KKR star Russell also won the IPL MVP or IPL Man of the Series award 2 times.

Narine, however, is set to get one better over Russell and Watson with his third MVP award in IPL 2024. Here is the list for the MVP or Man of the Series in IPL from 2008 to 2024:

Most Valuable Player in IPL from 2008 to 2024 - All-time MVP Award Winners