Carter Wins Overall! - 20/09/10

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Neil Carter is the 2010 FTI MVP having led from the front for the whole of the season. The Warwickshire all-rounder won the FTI MVP of the month for April and June and opened such a significant gap on the rest of his county peers that they simply could not close such was his consistency of performance across all forms. He finished with 1270 runs and 80 wickets, ranking second in both the LV=CC FTI MVP and the CB40 FTI MVP. His final points tally of 647 was the highest in MVP history, his 47-point winning margin the largest in MVP history.

In the LV county championship Carter scored four fifties including 99 not out in his 617 runs, while his 51 wickets came at an average of 22.13 and included four five-fors. He took a wicket on average every seven overs.

In the CB40 he scored 422 runs and took 13 wickets. His highlights with the bat were 68 off 38 balls and 101 off 93 balls in the two matches against Leicestershire, and 81 off 62 balls versus Scotland. Of those 422 runs, he scored a staggering 75% in boundaries (69x4, 7x6) at a strike rate of 1.24. In the FPt20 he scored 69% of his 231 runs in boundaries (33x4, 7x6). The other extraordinary statistic from Carter’s season is that from 41 matches across all forms he took only two catches.

Adil Rashid led the chasing pack for much of the season. The Yorkshire leg-spinning all-rounder scored 904 runs and took 95 wickets across all forms, 732 and 57 of which came in the LV=CC where he ranked first. He scored six championship fifties and took five wickets in an innings three times. He took 28 wickets in just four matches in mid-summer propelling Yorkshire to the top of the Championship but couldn’t maintain this ratio as the weather took a turn for the worse in August and September.

Alfonso Thomas, who finished third in the FTI MVP, was county cricket’s leading wicket-taker with 109 scalps across all forms. He took 49 championship wickets but it was with the white ball that he had no equal, topping the lists for both the FPt20 and the CB40 with 33 and 27 wickets respectively. Thomas took three wickets in the FPt20 in six successive matches finishing the campaign with an average of under 14 while in the CB40 his average was under 16, his economy rate under 5.3 runs-per-over.

Thomas’ county captain and 2009 MVP winner, Marcus Trescothick, will undoubtedly look back on a season of what might have been after three second-placed finishes but he might also reflect on another fine personal season which has seen him score 2335 runs across all forms. Somerset’s push for the LV County Championship was instigated by Tresco’s run spree, which saw him post scores of 188, 228 and 128 in the last third of the season. Trescothick defended his MVP title valiantly with 1397 runs in the LV=CC, 572 runs in the FPt20 (73% of which came in boundaries, strike rate of 1.57) and 366 runs in the CB40. He also snaffled 38 catches and won 31 games as captain.

Samit Patel kept up his fine record of top finishes in the MVP following his seventh in 2009 and second in 2008 with fifth in the FTI MVP of 2010. He made 1567 runs and took 52 wickets across all forms but will look back on just two centuries from all cricket as an underachievement given all the starts he made.

Chris Woakes was the catalyst for Warwickshire’s fine last six weeks of the season which saw them climb out of the relegation zone in the LV=CC and win the CB40. While Carter was magnificent from start to finish, Woakes came on strong to eclipse his new-ball partner in the final few matches. He took 26 wickets in his last six innings in the LV=CC including 11 in the match against Kent at Edgbaston, as Warwickshire won four out of their last five games. He scored 602 runs, which included a hundred against Hampshire and took 84 wickets, 54 of which came in the LV=CC where he ranked fifth. He finished sixth in the overall FTI MVP.

Sean Ervine placed seventh after scoring 1773 runs and taking 48 wickets. Ervine notched 944 LV=CC runs including five fifties and an innings of 237 to thwart Somerset. He finished tenth in the CB40 FTI MVP with 359 runs and 14 wickets and sixth in the FPt20 FTI MVP with 470 runs and 16 wickets, where he was Hampshire Royals’ leading light as they won their first Twenty20 Cup on home soil.

Kent’s player of the year Darren Stevens kept his county’s head above the parapet for much of the summer but as his batting form fell away so Kent slipped into division two of the championship. Stevens scored 935 runs and took 27 wickets in the LV=CC but the breakdown of those runs tells its own story. In his first 11 innings he scored 730 runs including a purple patch of four hundreds in seven knocks. In his next 13 innings he mustered just 205 runs with a top score of 45.

James Franklin is the only overseas player in the top ten. The New Zealand all-rounder was ever-present for Gloucestershire scoring 1843 runs and taking 57 wickets. He finished 14th in the LV=CC FTI MVP with his standout performances 108 versus Worcestershire, three 90s and 7-14 in the 44 all out demolition of Derbyshire (although Derbyshire did come to win of course). Franklin’s best ranking came in the CB40 FTI MVP where he finished sixth with 511 runs including two hundreds and two fifties.

Jimmy Adams completes the top ten after a prolific season with the bat which has seen him rack up 2515 runs across all forms. 1351 came in the LV=CC, 496 in the CB40 and a record-breaking 668 in the FPt20.

Meanwhile in the CB40 FTI MVP Jacques Rudolph ran out a comfortable winner having notched four hundreds and four fifties in the competition. The South African, who will now return to his native country, scored 234 runs more than his nearest challenger, James Hildreth.

Andre Adams came third in the LV=CC FTI MVP behind Rashid and Carter. He finished as the highest wicket-taker in the competition with 68 wickets the last of which clinched the championship pennant for Nottinghamshire.

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