Patel heads all-time PCA MVP Rankings Nottinghamshire all-rounder Samit Patel reinforced his position as the top all-time performer in the Professional Cricketers’ Association Most Valuable Player Rankings with a career-best 257 not out against Gloucestershire at Bristol this week. Patel’s innings, which bettered his previous best by one run, earned him 38 rankings points towards a match haul of 43 and took him to 4,931 points across all formats since the PCA MVP system was introduced in 2007. Patel is now 21 points clear of Kent all-rounder Darren Stevens, who briefly displaced him at the top of the all-time list a fortnight ago, with a trio of Somerset players, Peter Trego (4,597), Jim Allenby (4,080) and Marcus Trescothick (3,983), making up the top five. Stevens leads the all-time County Championship MVP with 2,649 points with Middlesex’s Ireland international seamer Tim Murtagh second followed by Trescothick and Trego with Patel fifth on 2,457 points. The PCA MVP Rankings system identifies the match-winners and key influencers of matches throughout the domestic season. The formula takes into account conditions, quality of opposition, captaincy and strike-rates as well as runs scored and wickets taken. Sussex pace bowler Jofra Archer’s has surged into the top five of this season’s overall PCA MVP after taking a career-best 11 wickets in the match to help set up a Specsavers County Championship victory over Leicestershire at Grace Road. The former West Indies Under-19 player took five for 67 in Leicestershire’s first innings and followed up with six for 70 in the second to end the match with a hefty haul of 46 PCA MVP points. He began the season with a career-best seven for 67 against Kent and claimed another five wicket haul against Durham last month. Archer now has 228 rankings points this season and he has now moved into fifth place in the overall rankings, to points behind Kent all-rounder Darren Stevens, the long-time leader. Archer is also fifth in the County Championship rankings on 161 points with Hampshire’s former South Africa paceman Kyle Abbott leading the way on 213 points. Derbyshire fast bowler Conor McKerr was also in the wickets, taking ten against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road but it was not enough to secure victory as Ben Sanderson countered with nine in the match. McKerr ended only his second first-class match with 40 rankings points and he has now been recalled by Surrey from his loan spell at Derbyshire. Sanderson’s efforts earned him a haul of 38 PCA MVP points, his best of the season.
