Four BLACKCAPS trail Sri Lanka batsman Upul Tharanga in the ICC Champions Trophy 2006 Player of the Tournament ratings. 
BLACKCAPS captain eming is the highest scoring New Zealander with three points.
and have two each, with on one.
Leader Tharanga hit 56 against the BLACKCAPS in Sri Lanka’s seven-wicket win in Mumbai last week and 38 against Pakistan in Jaipur.
The opener also posted centuries against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in the preliminary round, averaging 61.80 from his five innings, with a strike-rate above 80.
West Indies duo Chris Gayle and Jerome Taylor are in close attendance, with Bangladesh’s Sakib al Hasan, whose side did not progress through the preliminary round, also highly-placed.
Points are allocated by each match’s ICC Match Referee, who selects his top three players in order.
The player of the tournament is selected by an aggregate of points accrued during the various stages of the tournament.
Accordingly, the man of the match receives three points, second best player receives two points and third best man gets one.
ICC Champions Trophy Player of Tournament points table
7 - Upul Tharanga (SL)
6 - Chris Gayle (WI)
4 - Jerome Taylor (WI), Sakib al Hasan (Bang)
3 - Damien Martyn (Aus), Muttiah Muralidaran (SL), Runako Morton (WI), Abdul Razzaq (Pak), Stephen Fleming, Munaf Patel (Ind), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), Shahriar Nafees (Bang), Farveez Maharoof (SL)
2 - Daniel Vettori, Shoaib Malik (Pak), Kyle Mills, Irfan Pathan (Ind), Dwayne Bravo (WI), Sanath Jayasuriya (SI), Mitchell Johnson (Aus)
1 - Adam Gilchrist (Aus), Imran Farhat (Pak), Jacob Oram, Ramesh Powar (Ind), Dwayne Smith (WI), Lasith Malinga (SL), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI), Brendon Taylor (Zim), Mahela Jayawardene (SL), Shane Watson (Aus)
