Essex Cricket’s Dean Elgar has been named in the PCA MVP Team of the Month for September.
The last women’s and men’s MVP Teams of the Month for 2025 have been selected based on the PCA’s Most Valuable Player Rankings, powered by OFX.
Using the MVP’s unique algorithms, players have been selected based on their excellent contributions with the bat, ball and in the field across the month of September in the Women’s Metro Bank One Day Cup, Men’s Vitality Blast and the Rothesay County Championship.
The PCA’s MVP system works by comparing a player’s accomplishments against the expected performance for that game. Runs and wickets achieved at each ground are also considered and compared to the average. This enables players to score or lose MVP points on every ball through CricViz’s extensive historical database, the rankings are a true reflection of performance.
Returning to the Essex team for the first time since July, the left-handed South African opening batter scored two centuries in four innings throughout September.
Northamptonshire’s Saif Zaib is named captain after picking up the most MVP points with 99.55 following a contribution of 398 runs and six wickets. He also ended the summer as the leading run-scorer in the County Championship with 1,425 at an average of 64.77.
The bowling line-up consists of some red-balls stars, including Sussex’s Ollie Robinson who got the most bowling points with 67.85. This was mainly down to his 11-wicket haul against Worcestershire in the last game of the season. He is joined by Rothesay County Championship Player of the Year Kyle Abbott and the highest wicket-taker in the competition in Tom Taylor.
The side’s powerful batting is led by the Hampshire duo of Toby Albert and Chris Lynn after yielding 82.98 and 76.44 batting points respectively. Lynn scored 171 from just three games in the Vitality Blast, including 108 not out in the semi-finals against Northants Steelbacks, an innings which incredibly saw him hit five consecutive sixes in one over.
Men’s September Team of the Month:
1. Dean Elgar (Essex)
2. Chris Lynn (Hampshire)
3. Toby Albert (WK) (Hampshire)
4. Leus du Plooy (Middlesex)
5. Tom Abell (Somerset)
6. James Coles (Sussex)
7. Saif Zaib (C) (Northamptonshire)
8. Tom Taylor (Worcestershire)
9. Ollie Robinson (Sussex)
10. Kyle Abbott (Hampshire)
11. Jack Leach (Somerset)
