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- Best domestic XI selected by the PCA MVP Rankings
- Liam Dawson captains IG PCA Men’s Team of the Year for second year in a row
- Dawson, James Vince and Dan Worrall return from 2023 side
- Selected players will receive a personalised medal at the cinch PCA Awards on Tuesday 1 October
The 2024 IG PCA Men’s Team of the Year has been selected by the PCA Most Valuable Player Rankings, to provide the best XI from this season’s domestic men’s cricket according to the statistics.
The team sees Liam Dawson captain for the second year in succession as finished top of the Overall MVP Rankings on 635 points. The Hampshire all-rounder has also been nominated for the cinch PCA Men’s Player of the Year award.
IG is a leading trading and investing provider and an official partner of England Cricket. This year’s side contains three players from the 2023 team in Dawson and Dan Worrall, as James Vince features for the third year in a row.
Hampshire’s Dawson enjoyed a phenomenal season winning both the Vitality County Championship Player of the Year and the PCA Men’s Domestic Overall MVP thanks to a remarkable effort of 1,280 runs and 71 wickets in 2024.
Other tournament MVP winners have also made the side with Warwickshire all-rounder Ed Barnard taking the Metro Bank One Day Cup Player of the Year for the second consecutive year, as Gloucestershire’s David Payne won the Vitality Blast Player of the Year with his side lifting the trophy at Edgbaston.
The top five batters according to the MVP points were all selected in the IG PCA Men’s Team of the Year, alongside four of the top five bowlers. Somerset’s Jack Leach was unfortunate to miss out due to Dawson’s superior points tally as he took the spin bowling spot. Craig Overton also came close but lost out to Ed Barnard taking the seam-bowling all-rounder position. Gloucestershire’s James Bracey was unlucky not to be included due to Michael Pepper’s incredible run-scoring season.
The cinch PCA Awards takes place at the Troxy on Tuesday 1 October where the best performing players in domestic and international cricket will be recognised.
The team was selected on Tuesday 24 September, ahead of the last round of the Vitality County Championship and all players selected in the 2024 IG PCA Men’s Team of the Year will receive a personalised winner’s medal from Mappin & Webb.
Keaton Jennings (Lancashire / London Spirit)
· 462 MVP points
· Most MVP batting points with 394
· 1,006 runs in County Championship at an average of 45.7
· Four hundreds in County Championship
Alex Davies (Warwickshire / Southern Brave)
· 458 MVP points
· Third most runs in County Championship Division One with 1,115
· Four hundreds in County Championship with an average of 50.7
· Fourth most MVP batting points with 366
James Vince (Hampshire / Southern Brave)
· 489 MVP points
· Most runs in The Hundred with 424
· Four fifties in The Hundred with an average of 53
· 986 runs in County Championship at an average of 49.3
Tom Banton (Somerset / Trent Rockets)
· 418 MVP points
· 515 runs in the Blast at an average of 46.8
· Four fifties in the Blast with strike-rate of 151
· 891 runs in County Championship at an average of 49.5
David Bedingham (Durham)
· 388 MVP points
· Most runs in County Championship Division One with 1,331
· Six hundreds in County Championship with an average of 78.3
· Highest score 279
Michael Pepper – wicketkeeper (Essex / London Spirit)
· 423 MVP points
· PCA Player of the Month in June
· 535 runs in the Blast at an average of 45.6
· Blast strike-rate 193.9 with two hundreds
Liam Dawson – captain (Hampshire / London Spirit)
· 635 MVP points
· 54 wickets in County Championship at an average of 25.1
· Won County Championship MVP and Overall MVP
· Shortlisted for cinch PCA Men’s Player of the Year
Ed Barnard (Warwickshire)
· 481 MVP points
· 19 wickets in the One Day Cup at 15.7
· 433 runs in One Day Cup with an average of 61.9
· Won Metro Bank One Day Cup Player of the Year
David Payne (Gloucestershire / Welsh Fire)
· 331 MVP points
· Won Vitality Blast and Blast Player of the Year
· 33 wickets in the Blast at an average of 12.8
· Equal most wickets in a Blast season
Dan Worrall (Surrey / London Spirit)
· 366 MVP points
· Most MVP bowling points with 331
· 52 wickets in County Championship at an average of 16.2
· Won County Championship
Jamie Porter (Essex)
· 301 MVP points
· 56 wickets in County Championship at an average of 19.3
· Four five-fers in County Championship
· Most wickets in County Championship Division One
*IG PCA Men’s Team of the Year was selected ahead of the final round of this year’s Vitality County Championship.
View the full Men’s Overall Domestic MVP table here.
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The Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA), founded in 1967 by former England fast bowler Fred Rumsey as the Cricketers’ Association, represents past and present first-class cricketers in England and Wales. In the 1970s, the PCA established a standard employment contract and minimum wage for professional cricketers. It also helped create a pension scheme in 1995 and launched the magazine All Out Cricket and the ACE UK Educational Programme in 2002.
