Ian Blackwell the LV=CC MVP for 2009 sits fifth in the current table having scored 613 runs and taken 21 wickets. He has scored two hundreds and a 99 at Edgbaston, while his best with the ball was 4-34 at home against Lancashire.
In the overall FTI MVP he is third behind runaway leader Marcus Trescothick and Worcestershire’s Gareth Andrew.
Callum Thorp is 7th in the LV=CC FTI MVP having taken 32 wickets many of which have been top order batsmen (which earn a bowler more points than tailenders under the FTI MVP Rankings formula). His best return of the season came at Liverpool where he took 6-20 in Lancashire’s first innings.
Dale Benkenstein, fifth in the overall FTI MVP, is ninth in the LV=CC FTI MVP. The personification of consistency and calm, the former captain has racked up 1418 runs across all forms, 1003 of which have come in the County Championship including 4 hundreds and 6 fifties.
Ben Stokes, who was in contention for the overall FTI MVP until his finger injury, clings on to tenth spot in the LV=CC FTI MVP. He has scored 609 runs including 3 big hundreds and taken 17 wickets. He averages an impressive 23.30 FTI MVP points per game.
The FTI MVP rankings are an increasingly popular way to measure player performance as they take into account strike rates, economy rates and the context of a game unlike traditional averages. Players earn more points for reaching milestones like hundreds and 5-wicket hauls, contributing 30% or more of the team’s total and taking top order wickets. Captains’ performances are rewarded, too.
Link for Durham FTI MVP page: http://www.thepca.co.uk/county-team-rankings-11.html?team=1
Link for main FTI MVP page: http://www.thepca.co.uk/mvp-11.html