Ackermann Nominated for July PCA POTM
Mon 1 Aug 2022
After an exceptional run of form in July, Colin Ackermann has been nominated for the men's PCA Player of the Month award.
The Running Foxes batsman finished in third place in the MVP points rankings, after amassing 461 runs across both First-Class and T20 cricket during the month, giving him an average of 153.7. He also took six wickets at 35.8.
Nominees are selected by the PCA’s Most Valuable Player Rankings, which picks out the game’s top performers across each competition, as well as a month-by-month table and overall rankings. The MVP takes into account batting, bowling and fielding contributions as well as match defining contributions using a unique algorithm developed with CricViz.
Ackermann won three Match MVP awards during July, the most impressive of which coming against Sussex, where he earned 51 points for posting a brilliant career-best score of 277 not out in Leicestershire's record-breaking score of 756 for four.
The Club's T20 skipper also starred in the culmination of the Foxes' Vitality Blast campaign, helping the team string five successive wins together, including two in July against Northamptonshire Steelbacks and Yorkshire Vikings.
Ackermann picked up Match MVP awards in both fixtures, scoring 72* and taking 2-21 against the Vikings and scoring 85 with a strike rate of 193.2 against the Steelbacks.
Glamorgan’s Sam Northeast, Essex’s Simon Harmer and Gloucestershire’s Zafar Gohar have also been nominated after finishing in the top four the men’s rankings for their performances in July.
Foxes fans can vote for the PCA Player of the Month HERE “ with the poll closing on Wednesday 3 August at 11am.
