INGRAM TOPS NATWEST T20 BLAST PCA MVP Glamorgan’s South African all-rounder Colin Ingram has topped this season’s NatWest T20 Blast Professional Cricketers’ Association Most Valuable Player Rankings. Ingram finished a productive campaign on 194 points, five ahead of Gloucestershire’s Australian batsman Michael Klinger who finished top of the competition rankings in 2015. Ingram took 39 points from Glamorgan’s final group match against Essex when he plundered his maiden T20 century from just 56 balls and contributed almost 55 per cent of the Welsh county’s runs. His T20 best bowling of four for 32 was not enough to save Glamorgan from defeat by Yorkshire in the quarter-final in Cardiff earlier this month but it gave Ingram 16 PCA MVP points. Northamptonshire batsman Josh Cobb, who won the Man of the Match Award in Saturday’s NatWest T20 Blast final against Durham, finished fifth in the competition PCA MVP. Cobb went into Finals Day in eighth place in the rankings, 65 points adrift of Ingram. He took only two rankings points from the semi-final victory over Nottinghamshire but made up for it against Durham with 80 from 48 balls, a strike rate of 167, which gave him 28 PCA MVP points. Durham’s Keaton Jennings and Yorkshire’s Tim Bresnan also secured places in the top 10 of the final NatWest T20 Blast Rankings after Finals Day. Jennings took 27 rankings points from the final after he made 88 from 58 balls in the final to finish eighth on 133 points with Bresnan two places and two points behind him. Jennings is fourth in the overall PCA MVP Rankings on 390 points, 55 behind Liam Dawson, the overall leader. The PCA MVP was introduced in 2007 and is designed by the players to find the cricketers who really win matches by combining all aspects of a player’s performance to give a ranking in relation to his peers. The revised MVP formula gives full credit to those players whose performances improve their team’s chances of winning. Points are accrued for all runs scored and wickets taken; these are then adjusted within the context of the match to take into account strike rates and economy rates. Runs gain more points if they are scored quickly or in low-scoring contests. Top order wickets taken at the start of the innings are judged more valuable than those that fall later, and bowlers who bowl their overs cheaply (in the context of the match) are given due reward for doing so. The weightings in the revised formula have been scaled so as to provide continuity with previous seasons, ensuring that the value of an MVP point this year is equivalent to those allocated under previous formulae. The final PCA MVP Rankings for the NatWest T20 Blast can be viewed here: https://www.thepca.co.uk/competition-rankings.html?comp_format=20OVER {{ak_sharing}}
