Ali tops the winter ODI rankings

Ali tops the winter ODI rankings England bowed out of the 2015 ICC World Cup with a victory over Afghanistan doubling their wins total for the tournament after their earlier success against Scotland. In truth, consolations don’t come much smaller to a country that expected far more but if we’re to ‘take the positives’ as is the current way of things then the MVP Rankings tell us that Moeen Ali, Joe Root and Chris Woakes continue to make encouraging progress in their fledgling international careers. Ali has come a long way in the 13 months since making his international debut against the West Indies in Antigua. He’s scored 1075 runs and taken 44 wickets across all three forms in that time, 547 and 16 of which have come in this Winter’s ODI campaign. He’s scored hundreds against Sri Lanka and Scotland and contributed 14% of England’s runs at the rate of better than a run-a-ball. He struck 57 fours and 21 sixes scoring 64.7% of his runs in boundaries. He conceded runs at 4.86 runs per over operating as England’s number one spin option during the World Cup. Having topped the overall county MVP Rankings just two summers ago, he’s now kicked on to top the Winter ODI Rankings and takes a 43-point lead into the Test series against the West Indies as he bids to take the overall Winter MVP crown. Root finished second in the ODI MVP with 671 runs at a rate of 82 runs per 100 balls (33% coming in boundaries) and two wickets. He was the only other England batsman to post a World Cup hundred scoring 121 off 108 balls against Sri Lanka in Wellington. He also reached three figures during the one-day series against Sri Lanka before Christmas. His tally represented 17.82% of England’s ODI runs. Root – surely inked in for the Test tour to the West Indies – will be a challenger in the overall MVP race and has a good memories of the Caribbean having scored a hundred there during his last innings a year ago. Woakes was England’s most successful bowler during the Winter ODI campaign taking 27 wickets including a best of 6-47 versus Sri Lanka. In addition, he scored 205 valuable runs with a best of 42 not out in England’s pivotal defeat to Bangladesh in Adelaide. The Warwickshire all-rounder finished a creditable third in the ODI MVP Rankings but having picked up an injury, he now faces a race to be fit to in time for the West Indies tour. Ian Bell and Jos Buttler complete the top five. Bell contributed three World Cup fifties, two of which came in England’s two tournament victories taking his tally for the Winter ODI campaign to 555 runs with a best of 141 against Australia during the tri-series in Hobart. Buttler’s 423 runs and 26 dismissals (23 catches and 3 stumpings) saw him grab fifth. He only faced 432 balls – a little over half of the balls faced by Root, for instance (818) – scoring at the rate of 98 runs per 100 balls. He struck 43 fours and four sixes scoring 44% of his runs in boundaries. Buttler made three fifties including 65 against Bangladesh in England’s penultimate and crucial group match. WINTER ODI MVP PLAYER BAT BOWL FIELD CAPT WINS PLAYED POINTS AV PTS Moeen 112.80 74.18 5 0 5 17 197 11.59 Root 134.77 0.77 10 0 5 18 154 8.53 Woakes 32.54 104.00 10 0 5 17 152 8.91 Bell 119.71 0 6 0 4 13 130 9.98 Buttler 77.13 0 44 0 6 18 127 7.06 For more information on the MVP ranking system please visit www.thepca.co.uk. For more info on this release contact Dave Fulton on 07742106991, dfulton@thepca.co.uk or Jason Ratcliffe at the PCA on 07768 558 050 or jratcliffe@thepca.co.uk The Formula The MVP is a cumulative points system that rewards players for every run scored, wicket taken and catch held – and, how well they do it. A player achieves bonus points based in certain criteria. An overview of the formula is set out below: Batting + Bowling + Fielding + Captaincy + Winning = Total MVP points Batting: The basis of the batting points take into account runs scored, the rate scored at, and the percentage of the team’s total. Batting bonus points are achieved for reaching a century, achieving a benchmark run-rate (varies per tournament, i.e. 1.5 runs per ball in the Twenty20), and scoring over 30% of a team’s runs Bowling: The basis for the bowling points take into account the number of wickets and economy rates. Bowlers achieve higher points for getting out higher order batsmen Bowling bonus points are achieved for achieving a benchmark economy rate (varies per tournament, i.e. fewer than 6 runs per over in Twenty20), taking 5 or more wickets in an innings, and bowling maidens. Fielding: Points are accumulated for catches, run outs – direct hits, run outs – assists, stumpings, with bonuses for 5 fielding dismissals in an innings. Captaincy: A captain of a winning side will receive one bonus point Winning teams: All members of a winning team receive one bonus point {{ak_sharing}}