Glamorgan’s South African all-rounder Colin Ingram has topped this season’s NatWest T20 Blast Professional Cricketers’ Association Most Valuable Player Rankings, after finishing as the second highest run-scorer in the competition.
Ingram finished a productive campaign on 194 points, five ahead of Gloucestershire’s Australian batsman Michael Klinger who finished top of the competition rankings in 2015.
Ingram took 39 points from Glamorgan’s final group match against Essex when he plundered his maiden T20 century from just 56 balls and contributed almost 55 per cent of the Welsh county’s runs.
His T20 best bowling of 4/32 was not enough to save Glamorgan from defeat by Yorkshire in the quarter-final in Cardiff earlier this month, but it gave Ingram 16 PCA MVP points.
Ingram equalled Chris Gayle's record for the most sixes hit in a domestic T20 campaign in the UK (29) and hit 502 runs in 14 matches in the competition, while Klinger was the top run-scorer on 548.
Colin has now returned to South Africa where he is set to undergo surgery to tackle the knee injury, which kept him out of red-ball action this season. He will undergo rehab with the Warriors club in South Africa, where he is captain, before returning to the Wales next spring ahead of the new 2017 Championship season.
“Colin will meet up with a surgeon back in South Africa towards the end of this month,” said Mark Rausa, the Glamorgan Physiotherapist.
“Post-surgery It should be a quick rehab process and Colin will most likely be back playing cricket after approximately eight weeks. Our medical staff will have close contact throughout the process.”
The PCA MVP was introduced in 2007 and is designed by the players to find the cricketers who really win matches by combining all aspects of a player’s performance to give a ranking in relation to his peers.
The revised MVP formula gives full credit to those players whose performances improve their team’s chances of winning. Points are accrued for all runs scored and wickets taken; these are then adjusted within the context of the match to take into account strike rates and economy rates.
Runs gain more points if they are scored quickly or in low-scoring contests. Top order wickets taken at the start of the innings are judged more valuable than those that fall later, and bowlers who bowl their overs cheaply (in the context of the match) are given due reward for doing so.
The weightings in the revised formula have been scaled so as to provide continuity with previous seasons, ensuring that the value of an MVP point this year is equivalent to those allocated under previous formulae.
The final PCA MVP Rankings for the NatWest T20 Blast can be viewed here.