MVP Michael makes BBC team of the year plus more cup final reaction (with video)
22 September 2015
Royal London One-Day Cup winning skipper Michael Klinger has added to his list of honours by finishing as the competition’s Most Valuable Player and being named in the BBC’s County Team of the Year.
To watch his reaction to the Lord's triumph, along with post-match interviews with Geraint Jones and Richard Dawson click below.
The 35-year-old Australian made 1653 runs across all three formats this summer including eight centuries.
BBC Gloucestershire commentator Bob Hunt said: “Michael Klinger has not only scored big runs in all formats, but his leadership as he moves forward a highly promising group has been superb.
“His strength at the crease centres around an ability to read the match situation and to adapt accordingly.
“He can play the audacious shots when necessary, but he likes nothing better than to build an innings and bat all day.
“And what an attitude - he commuted back from Western Australia to play in the One-Day Cup semi-final against Yorkshire when he needn't have done so and scored yet another match-winning century.”
For the full BBC County Team of the Year click here.
Michael had a rare failure with the bat in the final at Lord’s when he was caught behind off Jade Dernbach for 0 but won praise from pundits and fans for his astute captaincy.
Prior to the final he had been in magnificent form in white-ball cricket all summer. He scored 531 runs at a strike rate of 92 runs per 100 balls and an average of 106 contributing over 30% of his team’s runs. These figures mirror what he achieved in the NatWest T20 Blast: 654 runs, three hundreds, four fifties and a 34% contribution of his team’s runs.
In T20 his strike rate rose to 142 runs per 100 balls, his average dropped below 100 but was still an incredible 81.75. He was the Professional Cricketers; Association MVP in the NatWest Blast T20 too, despite missing the first two matches.
Benny Howell finished second in the RLC50 MVP scoring 300 runs and taking 15 wickets while James Fuller came eighth – largely down to the number of top order scalps he claimed.
Meanwhile seamer Craig Miles lost out on winning the LV=Breakthrough Player Award To Somerset batsman Tom Abell. Miles, 21 – who has been picked for the England Performance Programme this winter – was on an initial shortlist of six for the award.
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