Ingram aims for PCA MVP Rankings double

Ingram aims for PCA MVP Rankings double Glamorgan all-rounder Colin Ingram will have the chance to complete a double in the Professional Cricketers’ Association Most Valuable Player Rankings when the NatWest T20 Blast gets underway tomorrow. Ingram has already topped this season’s Royal London One-Day Cup rankings and will attempt to retain his crown in the T20 format having finished five points ahead of Gloucestershire’s Michael Klinger last season. Klinger did the double by topping both the RLODC and NatWest T20 Blast PCA MVP Rankings in 2015. The RLODC ended last Saturday with Nottinghamshire beating Surrey in a high-scoring final but Samit Patel’s haul of 16 PCA MVP points at Lord’s left him a point adrift of Ingram. Although Glamorgan did not progress beyond the group stage of the RLODC, Ingram piled up 150 points in a productive campaign which included three centuries, two half centuries and career-best bowling of four for 39 against Middlesex. Last season Ingram finished seventh in the RLODC rankings but top in the NatWest T20 Blast with a century and four half centuries and four wickets in the quarter-final defeat by Yorkshire. Glamorgan begin this season’s T20 campaign with a home game against Hampshire in Cardiff tomorrow before heading to Arundel on Sunday to play Sussex. 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. Kent all-rounder Darren Stevens will begin the campaign with a 63 points lead in the all-time PCA MVP for the NatWest T20 Blast. Stevens has amassed 1,197 points since the PCA MVP system was introduced in 2007 and averages almost 10 points a match in the T20 competition. Stevens sat out this week’s Specsavers County Championship match against Northamptonshire at Beckenham under the England and Wales Cricket Board’s concussion protocols having been struck by a delivery from Nottinghamshire’s Harry Gurney last week. But Stevens is expected to return to action for Kent’s T20 opener against Essex at Beckenham on Sunday. Patel is second in the all-time T20 rankings but he is the leader in the all-time overall PCA MVP across all formats. Patel, the first player to top 5,000 career points, now has 5,040 with Stevens second in the all-time list on 4,935. Patel faces a busy weekend as Nottinghamshire face Yorkshire at Headingley on Friday then travel to Edgbaston to play the Birmingham Bears on Saturday evening. Yorkshire will be able to call on the services of batsman Tom Kohler-Cadmore who produced the outstanding individual performance of last season’s Blast. Kohler-Cadmore slammed 127 from just 54 balls in Worcestershire’s opening match of the campaign against Durham at New Road. Kohler-Cadmore’s 100 came from just 43 balls and won him the Walter Lawrence Trophy for the fastest century of the season. Having started the season with Worcestershire Kohler-Cadmore was released last month to join Yorkshire having agreed a three-year contract with the county where he played much of his formative cricket. To view the overall Most Valuable Player Rankings click here.