Impressive Duckett crowned Winter MVP

England opener Ben Duckett has won the PCA’s Overall Men’s International Winter MVP, having finished top of the table, powered by OFX.

The 30-year-old ended the winter with 212.85 MVP points, finishing ahead of fellow batters Harry Brook and Joe Root. He earned 185.85 batting points, more than anyone over the past six months and 21.00 fielding points thanks to his excellence in the outfield and in the slips.

In a winter where he cemented his place as England’s opener in all three formats, Duckett played 17 matches and went on to score 897 runs, averaging 40.77 and scoring at an impressive strike-rate of 100.11. This included amassing 442 runs in Tests at an average of 40.18 and 358 runs in six ODIs at a strike-rate of 113.29.

A consistent player at the top of the order, the Nottinghamshire batter also managed to register five fifties and two centuries.

The left-handed batter had an outstanding campaign at the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy held in Pakistan despite the shortcomings of the team. He ended the group phase as the tournament’s leading run scorer where he scored 227 runs at an average of 75.66, two more runs than second-placed Root.

Over the course of the winter, Duckett won two Match MVPs. The first one came against Pakistan in a Test match at Multan where the aggressive opener scored 114 off 129 deliveries in the first innings, comprising of 16 fours which saw him earn 32.07 points.

The Birmingham Pheonix batter picked up his second Match MVP during England’s opening game at the ICC Champions Trophy against Australia in Lahore. The opener registered his highest ODI score of 165 from 143 balls, scoring 17 fours and three sixes in the process. The innings saw the batter get 31.04 points and was briefly the highest individual score in Champions Trophy history.

Duckett came out on top of the Overall Men’s International Winter MVP table despite tough competition from other batters.

England’s white-ball vice-captain Brook finished the winter second in the standings with 206.59 points. The Yorkshireman scored more runs during the winter period than any other batter in the squad with 911 at an average of 43.38. The 26-year-old batter scored three Test centuries, including a mammoth 317 against Pakistan which was the national team’s first triple century in Test cricket since Graham Gooch’s 333 against India in 1990.

Brook’s fellow Yorkshire batter Root had the third-most MVP points with 187.53. The right-hand batter returned to the ODI setup for the first time since 2023 ahead of the Champions Trophy and scored a valiant 120 in a losing cause against Afghanistan in the tournament. The former England captain also hit two centuries in Tests, including his highest score of 262 on his way to forging a record-breaking 454-run partnership with Brook at Multan.

The 2024/25 winter will also be remembered for the emergence of Brydon Carse as an all-format pace bowler. The Durham star came home in fourth position in the MVP standings 186.57 points.

Phil Salt, meanwhile, was fifth in the table with 166.84 MVP points in a winter which saw him picked in the ICC Men’s T20I Team of the Year. The Lancashire batter also topped the England Men IT20 Winter MVP standings with 132.11 points.

Salt’s Lancashire teammate Liam Livingstone finished first in the England Men’s ODI Winter MVP table with 67.39 points following an excellent tour to the West Indies where he captained the 50-over side.

The PCA’s Most Valuable Player Rankings, powered by OFX, picks out the game’s top performers across every single fixture. The MVP takes into account batting, bowling, and fielding contributions as well as match defining contributions using a unique algorithm developed with CricViz.

View the final standings of the Overall Men’s International Winter MVP here.

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