Buttler and Bopara share limited overs honours
Friday 4 April 2014 09:54, UK
Stuart Broad might well want to consign England’s winter of discontent to distant memory but his own performances have seen him take the titles of England’s Most Valuable Player and Most Valuable Test Player, according to the FTI MVP rankings.
The FTI MVP is a cumulative points system that rewards players for every run scored, wicket taken and catch held - and, how well they do it. A player achieves bonus points based in certain criteria.
Broad led the race from start to finish having begun with 6-81 in the opening Ashes Test in Brisbane. He scored 72 runs and took four wickets in Sydney to hold off the challenge of Ben Stokes for the Test FTI MVP and finished the series with 155 runs and 21 wickets. Across all three forms he scored 238 runs and took 37 wickets.
Along with Tim Bresnan he played the most matches (19) and finished 48 points clear of Stokes in the overall race, the biggest winning margin since Jonathan Trott finished 80 points clear of Andrew Strauss in 2010-11.
Broad is now ranked top of the all-time England MVP Rankings (inception 2007), the all-time ODI Rankings and the all-time T20 Rankings. Only Graeme Swann and Jimmy Anderson have more Test MVP Ranking points.
Ravi Bopara clinched the T20 FTI MVP despite Alex Hales’ pyrotechnics in the World T20. Hales, who won the 2013 FTI MVP, smashed 116 not out – England’s only T20 century – off 64 balls against Sri Lanka and 38 off 22 versus South Africa but it was Bopara’s ability to impact the game with bat and ball that proved decisive.
The Essex all-rounder scored 221 runs at a strike rate of 144 runs per 100 balls and took seven wickets with an economy rate of 5.52 runs per over. His most explosive innings came in lost causes: 65 off 27 versus Australia in the opening T20 in Hobart, 42 off 24 against the West Indies in Barbados and 31 off 18 against South Africa in Chittagong.
Jos Buttler was England’s Most Valuable Player in one-day cricket, scoring 274 runs at the rate of 123 runs per 100 balls. He also took 11 catches and completed two stumpings.
OVERALL FTI MVP
Player Batting Bowling Fielding Captain Wins Played Points Average
Broad 46.75 163.77 7 3 4 19 225 11.82
Stokes 74.74 94.66 6 0 4 15 177 11.83
Bresnan 52.58 95.59 6 0 4 19 158 8.32
Bopara 72.59 58.29 4 0 5 18 140 7.77
Buttler 95.49 0 34 0 5 18 134 7.47
ODI FTI MVP
Player Batting Bowling Fielding Captain Wins Played Points Average
Buttler 43.68 0 26 0 3 8 83 10.34
Root 41.87 36.32 0 0 2 6 80 13.37
Bresnan 16.97 52.06 0 0 3 8 72 9.00
Morgan 57.82 0 1 0 2 6 61 10.14
Stokes 15.56 36.62 3 0 3 8 58 7.24
T20 FTI MVP
Player Batting Bowling Fielding Captain Wins Played Points Average
Bopara 50.02 42.98 1 0 2 10 96 9.60
Hales 72.54 0 7 0 2 10 82 8.15
Jordan 15.93 37.82 5 0 2 6 61 10.12
Bresnan 30.99 22.67 4 0 1 9 59 6.52
Buttler 41.81 0 8 0 2 10 52 5.18
An overview of the FTI MVP formula is set out below:
Batting + Bowling + Fielding + Captaincy + Winning = Total MVP points
Batting: The basis of the batting points take into account runs scored, the rate scored at, and the percentage of the team's total. Batting bonus points are achieved for reaching a century, achieving a benchmark run-rate (varies per tournament, i.e. 1.5 runs per ball in the Twenty20), and scoring over 30% of a team's runs
Bowling: The basis for the bowling points take into account the number of wickets and economy rates. Bowlers achieve higher points for getting out higher order batsmen Bowling bonus points are achieved for achieving a benchmark economy rate (varies per tournament, i.e. fewer than 6 runs per over in Twenty20), taking 5 or more wickets in an innings, and bowling maidens.
Fielding: Points are accumulated for catches, run outs - direct hits, run outs – assists, stumpings, with bonuses for 5 fielding dismissals in an innings.
Captaincy: A captain of a winning side will receive one bonus point
Winning teams: All members of a winning team receive one bonus point
For more information on the FTI MVP ranking system visit www.thepca.co.uk
