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KLINGER POWERS INTO PCA MOST VALUABLE PLAYER TOP FIVE RANKINGS

12 August 2013

Gloucestershire Cricket's Captain, Michael Klinger, is in sparkling form ahead of tomorrow's Yorkshire Bank 40 game v Leicestershire.

Michael has moved up to fifth in the FTI Most Valuable Player rankings after his century against Somerset at Taunton yesterday. The South Australian hit nearly 50 per cent of Gloucestershire's runs in the 126 ball innings and picked up 30.08 ranking points. He also held two catches in the field, but was unable to prevent Gloucestershire from falling to a seven wicket defeat.

He will be hoping to continue his good form into the game against Leicestershire, however, after scoring nearly 200 runs more than any other county batsman across all forms of the game this season, having taking his tally to 1699 runs overall.

In doing so he has contributed well over a quarter of Gloucestershire’s runs in white-ball cricket (27.28% in YB40, 26.62% in FLt20) and scored 40 or more runs in six out of seven innings in the YB40.

He has also scored hundreds in each competition, four of them coming in the LV= County Championship.

He is now only ten points from becoming the fourth player this summer to post 400 or more in the rankings and is the only dedicated batsman in a top five dominated by all-rounders.

The FTI MVPs, which feature a £10,000 purse for the cricketer who scoops the top prize at the end of the season, award points for every run scored, wicket taken and catch held.

Bowlers receive higher marks for good economy rates, bowling maidens and for dismissing the top order, whilst batsmen are rewarded for high run rates and the percentage of the team’s runs they hit.

There are now more points across all formats for those notching 40 and 50 per cent of a team’s total, for top order batsmen, in recognition of their greater challenge against the new ball, and for those who hit big hundreds.

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