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- Harry Brook is named Metro Bank ODI Men’s Player of the Summer
- The England captain ends the 50-over summer with 60.83 points
- Brook said: “It is always nice to score a few runs and contribute to wins”
England captain Harry Brook has been named the Metro Bank ODI Men’s Player of the Summer following an excellent five-game series against Australia.
Standing in for the injured Jos Buttler, Brook led England in the Metro Bank ODI series against their arch-rivals and ended up being the highest run-getter across both sides. He scored 312 runs at an average of 78 and scored at a phenomenal strike-rate of 127.86. The Yorkshireman scored two half-centuries and a century, his first in ODI cricket.
Some excellent performances with the bat saw the 25-year-old top the ODI MVP charts with 60.83 points. Over the course of the series, he picked up two Match MVPs from five matches.
His highest points haul in a match came in the third ODI at Seat Unique Riverside where he picked up 25.82 points thanks to his unbeaten innings of 110 from just 94 balls to see England to victory by 46 runs (DLS).
Brook’s second Match MVP came a game later in the fourth ODI played at Lord’s. Having been put into bat by Australia, he scored 87 from 58 balls to accumulate 18.44 points. The hosts levelled the series after winning the game by a massive margin of 186 runs.
England had a host of consistent performers in the ODIs played against Australia. New 50-over opener Ben Duckett finished second on the MVP standings with 57.75 points while Will Jacks came home in third place with 36.12 points.
The Metro Bank ODI Men’s Player of the Summer was selected by the PCA Most Valuable Player Rankings. The formula takes into account expected performance on every ball according to CricViz’s extensive database. The algorithm also considers the historic performances of the venue each fixture is being played at, therefore giving a more accurate reflection of the top performers in the game than traditional batting and bowling averages do.
After being named the Metro Bank ODI Men’s Player of the Summer, Brook said: “It is always nice to get on the board and score a few runs and contribute to wins.
“I haven’t played too much ODI cricket but it is nice to contribute to some wins and finally try and get the tempo of one day cricket.
“Its been good to be the England captain. It is something I might think about trying to do in the future but for now I will just sit back and let Jos (Buttler) do it.”
The 2023 cinch PCA Men’s Player of the Year ends an excellent summer with the bat which saw him top the Men’s International Overall MVP charts with 229.25 points. He finished well clear of Joe Root and Gus Atkinson, who have both been nominated for the coveted cinch PCA Awards trophy this year, which will be announced on Tuesday 1 October.
Brook will now team up with the Test squad as they embark on a tour to Pakistan to play three Test matches in the sub-continent. The middle-order batter had a breakout series there in 2022 where he scored 468 runs to top the run-charts.
England’s white-ball team, meanwhile, will head to the Caribbean to play three ODIs and five T20Is against the West Indies before 2025 starts with a tour to India before competing at the ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan under Brendon McCullum’s regime.
View the full England Men’s MVP Rankings.
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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.
