Calcutta: Pakistan batsman Shahid Afridi heads the list of contenders for the Player of the Tournament award at the ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa.

According to an ICC media release, the allrounder has so far polled seven votes to top the latest table, but there are still four players who can catch him as they all come from the sides contesting Monday’s final — India and Pakistan.

Those players include three of Afridi’s teammates — Misbah-ul Haq, Younus Khan and his captain, Shoaib Malik — as well as India’s six-hitting star Yuvraj Singh. All five players have performed strongly during the tournament thus far.

Leg-spinner Afridi is the joint leading wicket-taker — alongside Australia’s Stuart Clark — with 12 victims, and has also scored rapidly whenever he has reached the batting crease, making 91 runs from just 45 balls faced.

THE CONTENDERS (points in brackets)

Shahid Afridi (Pak, 7), Stuart Clark (Aus, 6), Sanath Jayasuriya (SL, 6), Morne Morkel (SA, 6), Yuvraj Singh (Ind, 6), Matthew Hayden (Aus, 6), Brett Lee (Aus, 5), Craig McMillan (NZ, 5), Misbah-ul Haq (Pak, 5), Younus Khan (Pak, 5), Nathan Bracken (Aus, 4), Dilhara Fernando (SL, 4), Shoaib Malik (Pak, 4).