Glamorgan’s South African all-rounder Colin Ingram has gone top of the NatWest T20 Blast Professional Cricketers’ Association Rankings.
Ingram’s career-best T20 figures of four for 32 were not enough to save Glamorgan from defeat by Yorkshire in last night’s quarter-final in Cardiff but they earned him 16 rankings points towards a match haul of 20.
Those points helped Ingram to overtake Gloucestershire’s Australian batsman Michael Klinger, the previous leader, to go top of the competition PCA MVP with 194 points.
Ingram has a five points lead over Klinger and is 65 points clear of Northamptonshire batsman Josh Cobb who is the highest-ranked player of the four counties who have reached NatWest T20 Blast Finals Day at Edgbaston on August 20.
Ingram is also Glamorgan’s highest-ranked player in the overall PCA MVP in 21st place with 307 points from all formats so far this season.
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 PCA MVP leader board can be viewed here: http://www.thepca.co.uk/county-mvp.html