Jonassen claims MVP double

Yorkshire’s Jess Jonassen has won the PCA Women’s Domestic Overall MVP, powered by OFX, alongside claiming the Metro Bank One Day Cup Women’s Player of the Year title.

The season culminated with the Metro Bank One Day Cup final at the Utilita Bowl as The Blaze beat Hampshire on the final ball of the competition by three wickets, securing the treble for the Trent Bridge based side, who also won the Vitality Blast and the Vitality T20 Women’s County Cup.

Taking both awards, Jonassen receives two trophies to go alongside £10,000 in prize money, £2,500 for the Metro Bank award and £7,500 for the Overall accolade.

A phenomenal season from Jonassen saw her score 889 runs across the Vitality Blast, Metro Bank One Day Cup and The Hundred, alongside a staggering 47 wickets, earning 448.99 MVP points.

Finishing top of the PCA Most Valuable Player Rankings, powered by OFX, Jonassen accumulated 264.83 MVP points in the 50-over competition, 120.71 in the Blast and 63.45 in The Hundred.

In the Metro Bank One Day Cup, Jonassen scored 558 runs at an average of 39.85, whilst taking 26 wickets at 16.34 a-piece. In the Blast, Jonassen scored 252 runs and took 13 wickets with an average of 24.69.

The Australian all-rounder won an incredible seven Match MVPs during the summer with five coming in the One Day Cup and two in the Blast.

A brilliant performance in the List A Roses derby saw the 33-year-old earn 53.99 MVP points for a dominant innings of 108 off 122 balls with 13 fours and two sixes, which she followed up with figures of 10 overs, 4-30, helping her side to victory.

Against Warwickshire, Jonassen impressed again earning 45.41 MVP points for scoring 110 off 102 balls with 15 fours and impressive figures of 10 overs 3-32 in a three-wicket win.

In the Blast, Jonassen’s highest points scoring game came against the Bears, taking figures of 1-34 and then scoring a 40 ball-innings of 65 with eight fours and two sixes, securing a five-wicket win.

Both awards were decided by the PCA’s Most Valuable Player Rankings, powered by OFX.  The formula enables players to score or lose MVP points on every ball based on their expected performance in comparison to CricViz’s extensive historical database, with the venue being played at also taken into account.

After being named Metro Bank One Day Cup Women’s Player of the Year and Women’s Domestic Overall MVP, Jonassen said: “I absolutely loved my time with Yorkshire. They are a great group of players and staff and I loved spending a whole summer in a new professional set up.

“Although we didn’t get the results we were after as a team, we were able to expose a lot of young talent and there are some super exciting prospects who I’m sure will play for England one day. Personal highlights included scoring my first List A hundred.

“I found my love of the game again and after stepping down from captaining back home domestically, this was my first real opportunity to just be a player again. I kept things super simple and for the first time in a long time was able to focus all my energy into my own performances for the team.

“I’m really proud to have won both awards. I never set out to win individual awards but I’ve always wanted to do everything I could to contribute positively to whatever team I’m a part of. It’s nice to know I can still put in consistent strong performances.”

Finishing second and just 1.40 MVP points behind Jonassen, Georgia Adams produced another brilliant all-round summer in 2026, accumulating 447.59 points across the three competitions.

Scoring 799 runs with the bat and taking 47 wickets with the ball, Adams won six Match MVP awards throughout the year.

The Hampshire skipper scored 358 runs in the Vitality Blast, taking 23 wickets with a miserly average of 13.43, whilst in the 50-over competition she scored 405 runs at an average of 45 and took 18 wickets a 20.38 a-piece.

The 32-year-old’s most impressive performance in the One Day Cup came against Surrey, earning 37.94 MVP points for figures of 3-40 and a fluent innings of 115 off just 103 balls with 13 fours and two sixes in a four-wicket win.

In the Blast, the off-spinning all-rounder secured 47.91 MVP points against The Blaze for an innings of 49 off 30 balls and match-winning figures of 4-16 from her four overs.

In the same competition, Adams got 36.02 MVP points against Warwickshire for figures of 2-21 and a blistering knock of 53 from 29 balls in a four-wicket win.

Coming third on the Overall table was Adams’ Hampshire teammate Maia Bouchier who finished 2026 with 374.65 MVP points.

The 27-year-old scored an unbelievable 1,312 runs during the domestic summer with 750 runs in the One Day Cup, averaging 75, scoring four hundreds and unsurprisingly finishing as the leading batter in the competition.

Like Jonassen, Bouchier also won seven Match MVPs, in the One Day Cup she helped her side secure a place in the final after beating Surrey by 194 runs. Largely thanks to Bouchier’s unbeaten innings of 117 off 122 balls, earning her 27.78 MVP points.

In the T20 competition, the 27-year-old claimed 40.49 MVP points against Lancashire in a nine-wicket win for her unbeaten innings of 77 which included nine fours and three sixes.

Following Jonassen’s award in the Metro Bank One Day Cup, Hampshire’s Amanda-Jade Wellington came second on 227.15 MVP points.

The Hampshire spinner ended the tournament as the leading wicket taker, with an incredible 40 scalps at an average of 17.25 with best figures of 5-19. The 29-year-old also scored 166 runs at 27.66 in the competition.

Essex’s Jodi Grewcock finished third in the Rankings with 172.19 MVP points, having scored 554 runs at an impressive average of 55.4.

Jonassen’s double means she joins The Blaze’s Charli Knott and Sunrisers Leeds’ Annabel Sutherland as MVP winners in the domestic women’s game in 2026.

View the Final Women’s Domestic MVP Rankings here.