Bresnan Top Of MVP After Week Ten
Week ten sees Tim Bresnan with a 25 point gap at the top of the MVP table after consistent rather than spectacular performances in the Twenty20 Cup. Bresnan, who is ranked first in the Championship (LVCC) MVP and seventh in the Friends Provident Trophy (FPT) MVP is currently lying 56th in the T20 MVP but is steadily accruing enough points to keep him out in front overall. His 2-12 in the recent win over Lancashire takes his wicket tally in the T20 to six but he has 46 across all forms together with 433 runs.
Nottinghamshire’s Samit Patel is in hot pursuit of the Yorkshireman racking up enough Twenty20 points with both bat and ball to see him move to eleventh in the T20 MVP. Patel has scored 124 runs in the competition and taken eight wickets. Occupying second overall, he has scored 632 runs and taken 26 scalps.
Andrew Hall is the man in possession of top spot in the T20 MVP. The South African has been instrumental in Northants’ success in the competition scoring 170 runs at a strike rate of 1.21 and taking 17 wickets including 6-21 versus Worcestershire and 5-29 against Glamorgan.
Like Patel Anthony McGrath is another whose performances in the shortest format are propelling him up the overall table. McGrath is second in T20 and fourth overall having scored the most runs in the competition to-date. He has racked up 354 runs including four fifties, which represents over a third of Yorkshire’s competition runs.
Derbyshire’s Wavell Hinds is the highest new entry into the T20 top ten at number three. The destructive West Indies batting all rounder belted 72 off 52 balls in a losing cause against Lancashire bringing his competition total to 262 runs in addition to his four wickets.
Another leading light with the bat is Kent’s Joe Denly, who smashed 91 against Essex off just 57 balls as Kent Spitfires ran out comfortable winners over the Essex Eagles. The 22-year-old occupies fourth spot in the T20 with five fifties and 336 runs, which is over 31% of Kent’s competition total.
Sussex’s Dwayne Smith is fifth in the T20 with 115 runs including 72 not out off just 27 balls against Hampshire and 10 wickets including 2-11 off his full allocation in the return match against the Hawks.
Smith’s county colleague Murray Goodwin leaps into sixth spot in the T20 after his 79 from 46 balls against Surrey. Goodwin is the competition’s third highest run scorer behind McGrath and Denly with 306 runs.
Marcus Trescothick was back to his ominous best whackingWorcestershire all over Taunton in his 107 from just 57 balls, which was over half his team’s total. He has now scored 32% of Somerset’s runs in T20 with 273 at an impressive strike rate of 1.67, which sees him seventh.
Another powerful south paw, Neil Carter, is in eighth place in the T20 and eighth overall. Carter has 196 runs at a strike rate of 1.63 to go with six wickets and some miserly bowling performances the best of which was 2-14 from four overs against Worcestershire. He has 424 runs and 38 wickets across all cricket.
The early leader in the T20 MVP, Greg Smith, slips to ninth in the T20 after a string of single figure scores. The Derbyshire Phantom has scored 246 runs, 168 of which have come in the two games against Yorkshire.
Hampshire’s powerful ball striker Michael Lumb enters the top ten for the first time after his 63 from 45 balls against Surrey saw him break the 300 run barrier. The former Yorkshire left-hander has not failed to reach double figures in any T20 match this term notching 301 runs at a strike rate of 1.54.
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