Davies Back On Top Of Overall MVP Table
Steven Davies jumped back to the top of the overall MVP after scoring a 27-ball fifty in the Royals victory over the Gladiators in the Twenty20 Cup. The Worcester gloveman is ranked in the top twenty in each of the Championship (LV=CC), the Friends Provident Trophy (FPT) and the Twenty20 Cup (T20) scoring a combined total of 681 runs with 14 catches and 9 stumpings. His 73 from 48 balls against Warwickshire in the second match of the T20 represented almost half the Royals total earning him 20 points.
Craig Kieswetter is another keeper having a tremendous season and after three single-figure scores in the T20 cup he replicated his FPT form with 57 off 42 balls in the Sabres 10-wicket win over the Glamorgan Dragons. Kieswetter has scored 770 runs across all forms, including a brace of hundreds in each of the FPT and the LV=CC. He occupies second spot overall.
On the eve of the ICC World Twenty20 it is worth remembering that Chris Schofield was an important member of England's first T20 campaign in South Africa. The Surrey leg-spinner, who has shown his one-day pedigree again this season, is ranked second in the FPT MVP and 13th in the T20 MVP. Across all forms he has scored 245 runs and taken 35 wickets, which sees him just eight points behind Davies in third.
Zander de Bruyn is another example of the advantages of playing a block of limited-overs cricket. Like the three men ahead of him in the overall MVP rankings he got up a full head of steam in the FPT and carried it through to the T20 Cup. The Somerset all-rounder has a penchant for scores in the 70s - his 72 off 44 balls against Warwickshire was his sixth score in the 70s in one-day cricket this season. He is ranked first in the FPT MVP and third in the T20 MVP and has now scored 677 runs and taken 12 wickets across all forms.
Marcus Trescothick got his T20 cup moving with an unbeaten 69 off 47 balls in alliance with Kieswetter in the ten-wicket mauling of Glamorgan. The former England opener has now scored 863 runs across all cricket, second in terms of aggregate runs to Phillip Hughes the exciting Australian opener, whose runs in the LV=CC earned marginally less points because they are scored in the second division.
Jamie Dalrymple, the Glamorgan captain, has been consistent across all forms scoring 698 runs and taking 11 wickets to lie sixth in the overall MVP. Dalrymple has produced four double-figure scores including a couple of important fifties in the T20 Cup, which has propelled him to fourth in the T20 MVP despite his team's disappointing results.
Martin van Jaarsveld is in seventh position overall thanks to a consistent run in the first round of Twenty20 matches, which saw him score 75, 28, 39 and 33 - all at better than a run a ball. After winning last years Most Valuable Player award, van Jaarsveld is once again in ominous form, having tallied 853 runs in all form of the game to date.
Francois Du Plessis has been one of the successes of the season so far, and Lancashire - one of just two teams with a hundred per cent record in the T20 Cup and through to the semi-finals of the FPT - have been indebted to him on several occasions. Two hundreds in the FPT, including 113 off 75 balls to turn the quarter final with Essex on its head, are the obvious highlights but he also notched 78 off 49 balls against Leicestershire as well as bowling his leg-spin to good effect. He occupies seventh overall and eighth in the T20 MVP.
Greg Smith and Glenn Chapple make up the overall top ten.
The T20 MVP is headed by former Australian one-day specialist Ian Harvey. Harvey, who was such a key part of Gloucestershire's success under John Bracewell's first stint with the Gladiators, has helped give the Northants Steelbacks the perfect start to the T20 campaign. The master of the slower-ball took 4-18 against Warwickshire to announce his re-emergence as a one-day force, before scoring 64 off 37 balls and taking 3-24 against Glamorgan in the very next game. Harvey has opened up a gap of four points from second placed Michael Yardy and third placed Jonathan Trott. Yardy has eight wickets to his name and a stunning economy rate of 6 runs per over bowled for Sussex while Trott has contributed five double-figure scores at better than a run-a-ball in five matches.
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MVP Goes Amateur!
Fans of the PCA's groundbreaking Most Valuable Player system will be delighted to hear that MVP is being rolled out to all amateur cricketers! That's right, clubs and schools around the world will now be able to sign up for the professional MVP treatment, thanks to a brand new web portal in a joint initiative between the ECB and PCA.
No more arguing about who is the best player on your team - the MVP formula, designed by the pros for the pros, delivers a cumulative points system that rewards every run scored, wicket taken and catch held. All your scorecard information will be processed to determine who is grinding out the match winning performances...and who is full of hot air. Please visit at http://www.mycricketmvp.com/ for all the details.
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