Anderson Leads MVP By Single Point - 05/09/2008
We're halfway through the calendar year in the race for the England MVP and at the end of our international summer Jimmy Anderson leads by a solitary point after holding off his two nearest challengers Stuart Broad and Kevin Pietersen.
Anderson opened up a sizeable gap in the MVP rankings after a consistent showing in the Test arena but the other contenders have been reeling him in through the ODIs to the extent that one more wicket to Broad in the rain-interrupted match at Cardiff would have seen him top of the pile with just the winter tours of India and the West Indies.
Anderson took 42 wickets across all cricket this summer, 34 of which came in Tests where he is also ranked first. Broad contributed valuable runs in the Test matches, including three fifties, while his 34 wickets were spread more evenly across both forms. He took 15 in Tests and 17 in ODIs with a further two coming in the solitary Twenty20 against New Zealand. Broad is the top ranked player in the ODI MVP
Pietersen came down the home straight faster than Christine Ohuruogu in the Olympics. He scored 94 and 100 in his last two Tests against South Africa and added 90 and 40 against them in the ODIs. He recorded 917 runs for the summer and took three wickets across all forms. Pietersen is ranked second in Tests, third in the ODIs and third overall.
The man that ousted England's new captain from the number two spot in the ODI MVP was a certain Andrew Flintoff, who showed just what England have been missing for the best part of two years. Flintoff only played in four completed ODIs yet racked up more points than all his colleagues bar Broad, most of whom have played more than twice the matches. Ian Bell and Owais Shah average just over 5.5 points per ODI, Pietersen over 6.5 and Broad over nine points per ODI. Flintoff averages a staggering 14.33 points per ODI. It's good having him back.
With Flintoff straight in to number four it's left to Bell to complete the overall top five. He notched 731 runs, his personal highlight the magnificent 199 at Lord's in the first Test against South Africa, but he also finished the summer having cemented his place at the top of the one-day order. He scored 294 runs in ODIs where he is also ranked fifth.
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