Darren Stevens goes Top of the County Rankings

Darren Stevens, one of the most successful players in the history of the FTI MVP Rankings has moved to the top of the 2014 table after scoring his first hundred of the summer against Essex at Canterbury. Only Samit Patel (3527) and Peter Trego (3382) have scored more than Stevens' 3323 MVP points since the Rankings began back in 2007 and the Kent all-rounder has finished in the top three in each of the last three seasons.

Stevens has taken a particular shine to Essex, who always seem to provide him with a bumper points-haul. His extraordinary run against his local rivals reads: 136 in 2009, 100 in 2010, 6-60 and 3-76 at Chelmsford in 2011, 119 in 2012, 136 and 4-36 in 2013 and 105 off just 99 balls last week. That's five hundreds in six years plus a nine-wicket match haul in the only year he's failed to score a hundred against them!

Stevens has scored 454 runs and taken 25 across both forms this season, 362 and 19 of which have come in the LV County Championship (LV=CC) where he is ranked third. He scores his runs at the impressive rate of 78 runs per 100 balls and concedes them at just 2.70 runs per over in Championship cricket. He is ranked seventh in the Natwest t20 with 92 runs and six wickets. His best performance came in Kent's opening fixture against Somerset when he scored 47 off just 20 balls and took 2-14 from three overs.

For a closer look at Stevens' statistics please click this link: http://www.thepca.co.uk/competition-rankings.html?comp=overall

OVERALL FTI MVP

	County	Batting	Bowling	Fielding	Captain	Wins	Played	Points	Ave
Steven	Kent	90.05	136.38	10	0	4	12	241	20.08
Smith	Lancs	117.80	110.46	5	0	5	14	238	17.02
Patel	Notts	147.15	66.32	8	0	4	12	225	18.79
Vince	Hants	199.28	3.06	12	3	7	13	224	17.26
Ajmal	Worcs	8.09	205.30	3	0	66	12	222	18.53

Previous winners Points

2013 Moeen Ali 600

2012 Peter Trego 501

2011 Marcus Trescothick 597

2010 Neil Carter 643

2009 Marcus Trescothick 632

2008 Martin Van Jaarsveld 553

2007 Ottis Gibson 736