Craig Kieswetter Back on Top of the MVP Table
Craig Kieswetter is back on top of the overall MVP despite mustering only eight runs and four points in Somerset's win over Sussex at Hove. Kieswetter jumped over county colleague Zander de Bruyn, who missed the Sussex match, taking his run tally for the season to 960 across all cricket including four hundreds and three fifties.
DeBruyn's lack of action saw him drop to third in the overall MVP. The South African all-rounder, who heads the FPT MVP and lies fourth in the T20 MVP has scored 867 runs and taken 16 wickets across all forms.
Steven Davies separates the Somerset men after scoring his second Championship (LV=CC) hundred of the campaign against Yorkshire this week. The Worcestershire gloveman, who played for England in the T20 international in the West Indies earlier in the year, has featured prominently in the MVP over the last couple of years. He won the Pro40 MVP last year, is ranked eighth in this year's FPT MVP, 17th in the T20 MVP and 22 in the LV=CC MVP. Across all cricket he's scored 881 runs, taken 20 catches and completed 10 stumpings.
Equal on points with De Bruyn and Davies in fourth spot is Ian Blackwell. The big-hitting Durham all-rounder smashed Warwickshire around Edgbaston this week in making 158, 36% of Durham's first innings score. Not content with the 29 points that effort earned him, he then chipped in with three wickets as Durham reeled off a second consecutive win. Blackwell has scored 797 runs and taken 21 wickets across all forms.
Glen Chapple, in fifth spot, is the first of three county captains leading from the front in the MVP top ten. The Lancashire stalwart scored 61 runs and took three wickets in the match against Hampshire at Liverpool but could not prevent his side going down to the south-coast side. Chapple has scored 274 runs and taken 39 wickets across all cricket, 238 and 21 of which have come in the LV=CC where he is ranked third.
Peter Trego had another impressive week as his Somerset side announced themselves as contenders in the Championship with victory over Sussex. Trego, whose best form has been in one-day cricket this season, notched 92 in the first innings from just 107 balls to take the game away from the home side. He has scored 499 runs and taken 31 wickets across all forms to lie sixth.
Marcus Trescothick was back in the runs this week, scoring his second championship hundred of the season at Hove. The former England opener is the country's leading run-scorer across all cricket with 1209 runs, which sees him ranked seventh overall.
Sussex captain Mike Yardy slips from third to eighth after a poor week by his high standards. The left-hander was dismissed for 5 and 6 in the Somerest match having scored hundreds in his previous two championship matches. He has scored 838 runs and taken 15 wickets across all forms.
Jamie Dalrymple is ranked ninth overall and eighth in the LV=CC MVP. Glamorgan's captain has been consistent in all cricket this season despite his side failing to register a championship win. This week he made 70 in the second innings against Northants, his third score in the 70s in addition to two hundreds scored in LV=CC. He has 994 runs and 15 wickets from all forms.
Making up the top ten is Jon Lewis, who had a fine all-round game against Middlesex scoring 54 with the bat and taking six wickets in the match. Lewis has 269 runs and 45 wickets across all forms, which equals Graham Onions' haul for the season at the top of the wicket-taking ladder.
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