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Bell-Drummond and Wyatt captain elevens after finishing top of rankings.
The PCA’s Most Valuable Player Rankings have decided the teams of the month in domestic men’s and women’s cricket for the month of June.
Using the MVP’s unique algorithm, both elevens have been selected by picking out the game’s top performers across every single domestic fixture in the month.
The MVP works by comparing a player’s accomplishments against the expected performance for that game. Runs and wickets achieved at each ground are also considered and compared to the average. Enabling players to score or lose MVP points on every ball through CricViz’s extensive historical database, the rankings is a true reflection of performance.
The teams have been selected to create a well-balanced side, so that it’s not just the best 11 cricketers according to MVP points. This means players such as Worcestershire’s Mitchell Santner are unfortunate to miss out due to the fantastic form of fellow spinners Liam Dawson and Simon Harmer.
In the men’s game, the month has been dominated by the culmination of the Vitality Blast group stages alongside two rounds of the LV= Insurance County Championship. In the longer format of the game, Daniel Bell-Drummond stole the show with the bat during the month with an incredible unbeaten 300, a career best for the Kent opener, which earnt him 62 MVP points on the way to 867 runs in June.
Hampshire spinner Dawson enjoyed a lucrative month also excelling in the First-Class format with an incredible performance against Middlesex scoring 141 and taking match figures of 12-130 earning him a massive 89 MVP points. Dawson’s teammate and skipper at Hampshire James Vince made the Team of the Month for the second month in succession.
In the women’s game, June saw the end of the Charlotte Edwards Cup group games and the culmination of the tournament at finals day, which was won by Southern Vipers for the second year in a row.
A brilliant month from Southern Vipers opener Danni Wyatt earned her a spot in the team having scored an impressive 194 runs from her three matches in June earning 103 MVP points.
Victorious Vipers skipper Georgia Adams has made the side in successive months impressing once again with 91 MVP points, thanks to scoring 127 runs alongside taking six wickets at an average of 20.8.
May’s MVP Team of the Month
Daniel Bell-Drummond (c)
Kent
- 219.08 Batting Points
- 237.08 Overall Points
Laurie Evans
Surrey
- 155.05 Batting Points
- 166.05 Overall Points
James Vince
Hampshire
- 174.90 Batting Points
- 226.90 Overall Points
Jordan Cox (WK)
Kent
- 112.94 Batting Points
- 150.94 Overall Points
Matt Critchley
Essex
- 114.21 Batting Points
- 84.33 Bowling Points
- 222.55 Overall Points
Liam Dawson
Hampshire
- 81.07 Batting Points
- 108.62 Bowling Points
- 211.70 Overall Points
Sam Curran
Surrey
- 103.73 Batting Points
- 73.27 Bowling Points
- 195.99 Overall Points
Daniel Sams
Essex
- 101.27 Batting Points
- 97.56 Bowling Points
- 222.83 Overall Points
Simon Harmer
Essex
- 122.63 Bowling Points
- 190.67 Overall Points
Matt Henry
Somerset
- 129.33 Bowling Points
- 158.96 Overall Points
Ben Sanderson
Northamptonshire
- 119.86 Bowling Points
- 139.96 Overall Points
Danni Wyatt (c)
Southern Vipers
- 94.33 Batting Points
- 103.33 Overall Points
Maia Bouchier
Southern Vipers
- 38.06 Batting Points
- 43.06 Overall Points
Bryony Smith
South East Stars
- 49.04 Batting Points
- 12.40 Bowling Points
- 69.43 Overall Points
Sarah Bryce (WK)
The Blaze
- 37.08 Batting Points
- 44.08 Overall Points
Georgia Adams
Southern Vipers
- 62.28 Batting Points
- 15.39 Bowling Points
- 90.66 Overall Points
Fi Morris
Thunder
- 46.54 Batting Points
- 10.62 Bowling Points
- 62.15 Overall Points
Erin Burns
Central Sparks
- 46.35 Batting Points
- 16.51 Bowling Points
- 72.86 Overall Points
Anya Shrubsole
Southern Vipers
- 50.19 Bowling Points
- 55.19 Overall Points
Tara Norris
Thunder
- 26.96 Bowling Points
- 33.24 Overall Points
Linsey Smith
Southern Vipers
- 43.60 Bowling Points
- 51.75 Overall Points
Olivia Bell
Thunder
- 28.19 Bowling Points
- 32.19 Overall Points
Find out more about the MVP Rankings and view the domestic men’s and women’s tables.
Name of Author: Professional Cricketers Association
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.
