Marcus Trescothick and Samit Patel Lead FTI MVP after Stellar Games - 25/07/11

Marcus Trescothick and Samit Patel, two heavyweights of the county game (metaphorically - both are in decent physical shape these days) lead the FTI MVP after both enjoying stellar games in the latest round of LV County Championship (LV=CC) matches. Trescothick, who remains well clear at the top of the rankings, racked up another 39 FTI MVP points by scoring 163 against Durham at Taunton his fourth hundred in addition to 5 fifties in 10 innings. He made just 25 in the second innings to ruin his extraordinary sequence of scores but a Somerset victory over the County Championship leaders has blown the title race wide open. Trescothick is far and away the top run-scorer of this year's campaign - he leads by over 500 runs - with 2025 runs across all forms, 1398 of which have come in the Championship where he is also ranked first. He has contributed more than 26% of Somerset's total Championship runs and they've come at a healthy rate of 70 runs per 100 balls.

Patel, in second, has scored nearly a thousand runs fewer (1087) than Trescothick but has complemented his batting with the small matter of 44 wickets across all forms including 11 in this week's Championship match against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl. Patel returned career best figures in the Hampshire second innings of 7-68 taking his Championship tally to 31. He is ranked second in the LV=CC FTI MVP, 32^nd in the FLt20 FTI MVP and 25^th in the CB40 FTI MVP and of course has forced himself back into the international one-day fold through a combination of weight of performance and improved fitness. Like Trescothick, who won the overall MVP in 2009, Patel has great FTI MVP pedigree finishing 5^th last year, 7^th in 2009, and second behind Martin van Jaarsveld in 2008.

Meanwhile in the CB40 FTI MVP, Scotland all-rounder Preston Mommsen has leapfrogged some big county names to head the rankings. Mommsen has been a model of consistency with the bat making 8 scores of 24 or better in his 9 innings including 2 fifties racking up a total of 327 runs at an impressive strike rate of 111 runs per 100 balls. His best was 81off 72 balls in a losing cause against Northants Steelbacks at Wantage Road, his other fifty coming against Durham. He has helped Scotland achieve back-to-back wins in the reverse fixture against the Steelbacks and against the Warwickshire Bears where he took 2-11 off 3 overs to help stall the Warwickshire run chase.

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