First POTM vote of 2026 opens

PCA Player of the Month is back for the new domestic season with eight top performing players for you to vote for in April’s awards.

The top four men’s and women’s domestic players have been announced using the PCA’s Most Valuable Player Rankings, powered by OFX, with two prizes to be decided through your votes and the MVP.

The beginning of the season in the men’s and women’s game has seen some fantastic individual performances, resulting in some high MVP points scoring.

Nottinghamshire’s Joe Clarke has started the season in excellent form securing 98.51 MVP points in April. Somerset’s Craig Overton has shown his all-round capabilities with 91.94 points whilst Surrey’s Jamie Smith is only 0.3 of a point behind Overton. The top four is completed by last year’s PCA Men’s Domestic Overall MVP winner and Warwickshire captain, Ed Barnard.

Yorkshire all-rounder Jess Jonassen’s remarkable performances with bat and ball see her top the table with 136.51 MVP points. Essex’s Jodi Grewcock accumulated over a century of points with 106.84, while Surrey batter Danni Wyatt-Hodge earned 96.29. Grewcock’s teammate Sophia Smale is fourth in the rankings with 58.38 points.

April saw the Rothesay County Championship get underway with Warwickshire and Somerset making promising starts in Division One and Lancashire and Durham impressing in Division Two.

A brilliant start to 2026 saw Clarke amass 449 runs in April at an average of 74.83. The Nottinghamshire batter secured 96.51 MVP batting points and is the leading run-scorer in the Rothesay County Championship.

The 29-year-old won a Match MVP against Glamorgan earning 41.98 points thanks to his second innings knock of 136 off 195 balls as his side won by 192 runs.

Somerset stand-in captain Overton scored 253 runs at an average of 84.33, alongside taking eight wickets with an economy rate of 2.77.

The 32-year-old all-rounder was the Match MVP against Essex for an outstanding performance including an innings of 141 off 180 balls with 19 fours and three sixes and match figures of 4-81, adding 55.61 MVP points to his total in a 10-wicket victory.

Batting at number three for Surrey, Smith has swiftly gone about scoring 401 runs with an average of 80.20 and securing the second most batting MVP points of 88.64 in April.

The 25-year-old won the Match MVP against Leicestershire by scoring 166 in the first innings and 89 off 109 balls in the second to earn a massive 62.15 MVP points – the most of any Match MVP so far this season.

The new Warwickshire skipper has scored 275 runs at an average of 45.83 and taken five wickets with an impressive economy rate of 2.57.

The 30-year-old won a Match MVP against Nottinghamshire for his fantastic knock of 165 off 217 balls with 21 fours and two sixes, giving the all-rounder 45.29 MVP points to add to his total for April.

The women’s Metro Bank One Day Cup also began this month as Surrey and Somerset find themselves at the top of the table with Yorkshire making their Tier 1 debut.

Jonassen has scored back-to-back centuries in her last two matches and leads the MVP bowling rankings having taken 12 wickets, more than anyone else in the competition.

Averaging 61.80 with the bat, 13.08 with the ball and taking three catches, she has won three Match MVPs out of five games so far this season, the most rewarding adding 53.99 points to her total.

With a maiden professional century and an England ODI call-up under her belt, Grewcock’s 321 runs at an average of exactly 107 have given her an impressive start to the season.

The 21-year-old has won two Match MVPs for Essex, with two half-centuries to back up her game-winning unbeaten 120 from 116 balls against Somerset, a performance that earned her 44.97 MVP points.

Amassing 377 runs at an average of 94.25, Wyatt-Hodge tops the domestic women’s MVP batting table with 91.29 points, a fantastic tally for someone coming in at six in the line-up.

A spectacular 119 from just 86 balls against Hampshire saw her win 38.27 points as Match MVP, another remarkable display of run scoring for the leading run-scorer in the Metro Bank One Day Cup.

Taking five wickets, three catches and scoring 108 runs at an average of 36, Smale has been an outstanding all-round performer for Essex so far this season, especially in difficult circumstances.

Securing a Match MVP performance in her game against Warwickshire, the 21-year-old made key contributions, with an unbeaten 28 and 1-32 off eight overs, including the crucial dismissal of Davina Perrin for 43.

The PCA’s Most Valuable Player Rankings, powered by OFX, picks out the game’s top performers across every single fixture. This then forms the rankings for each competition, as well as an overall table which is how the top four are selected. The MVP takes into account batting, bowling and fielding contributions and match defining achievements using a unique live algorithm developed by CricViz.

The PCA Player of the Month will be decided by a 50:50 split between the PCA MVP Rankings and the public vote which is live at the top of this page – the poll will close on Friday 1 May at 10pm.

Find out more about the PCA MVP Rankings and view the men’s and women’s tables.

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