Craig named Captain of IG PCA Men’s Team of the Year
Bringing together the strongest lineup from across the domestic game, the 2026 IG PCA Men’s Team of the Year has been selected using the PCA MVP Rankings, powered by OFX.
Seven debutants make the IG PCA Men’s Team of the Year, as Craig Overton captains a side full of multi-format talent. Overton, Joe Clarke, Kyle Abbott and Ricardo Vasconcelos return after previous selections, with Clarke and Abbott making their third and fourth appearances respectively.
Clarke and Overton join George Hill and Dan Lawrence as the quartet of nominees for the Toyota PCA Men’s Player of the Year to also make the Team of the Year.
Overton finished atop the MVP bowling table, alongside his PCA Men’s Domestic Overall MVP win, with 352.05 bowling points for Somerset and Trent Rockets. Clarke amassed the most batting points, racking up a mammoth 433.92 and finished as leading run-scorer in the top flight of the Rothesay County Championship with 1,288 runs.
Vasconcelos, Paul Walter and Ethan Bamber make the side having won silverware in 2026. Bamber finished as the league’s leading wicket-taker in Warwickshire’s successful Rothesay County Championship Division One campaign, while Walter ended The Hundred with 247 runs in just five games for Manchester Super Giants. Vasconcelos’s 439 runs played a significant part in Northamptonshire’s Vitality Blast win too.
Clarke is the only player to retain a place in the team from 2025 but sees a change in role, taking the gloves from John Simpson after a successful Hundred campaign keeping for Birmingham Phoenix.
The team was selected using the PCA MVP Rankings across all domestic competitions, with CricViz’s algorithm assessing batting, bowling, fielding and match-defining contributions. The XI reflects the best-balanced side rather than simply the highest-ranked players, meaning strong performers such as Essex’s Matt Critchley and Warwickshire’s Rob Yates narrowly miss out.
The PCA Awards in partnership with Toyota takes place at Exhibition White City, London on Wednesday 30 September where the most prestigious awards ceremony in the game will celebrate the top performing players in international and domestic cricket.
The 2026 IG PCA Men’s Team of the Year
Paul Walter (Essex and Manchester Super Giants)
- 75 MVP points
- 1,255 runs
- 4th in batting table with 325.27 batting points
- Won The Hundred with MSG
Ricardo Vasconcelos (Northamptonshire)
- 24 MVP points
- Championship Division Two top run-scorer (1,159)
- Six First-Class centuries
- Won Vitality Blast with Northamptonshire
Kiran Carlson (Glamorgan and London Spirit)
- 72 MVP points
- 1,366 runs
- 2nd in MVP batting standings (362.08)
- High score 209
Joe Clarke (Nottinghamshire and Birmingham Phoenix)
- 92 MVP points
- Leading run-scorer in Championship (1,288)
- Topped batting rankings with 433.92 points
- Nominated for Toyota PCA Men’s Player of the Year
Dan Lawrence (Surrey and SunRisers Leeds)
- 47 MVP points
- 1,356 runs and 19 wickets
- Six First-Class centuries
- Nominated for Toyota PCA Men’s Player of the Year
Martin Andersson (Derbyshire)
- 48 MVP points
- 1,734 runs and 40 wickets
- High score of 228
- Third in Men’s Domestic Overall MVP
George Hill (Yorkshire)
- 13 MVP points
- 966 runs and 67 wickets
- Averaged 18.39 with ball in County Championship
- Nominated for Toyota PCA Men’s Player of the Year
Craig Overton (Somerset and Trent Rockets)
- 08 MVP points
- 951 runs and 76 wickets, first in bowling rankings (352.05)
- Won Overall and County Championship MVP
- Nominated for Toyota PCA Men’s Player of the Year
Liam Patterson-White (Nottinghamshire and SunRisers Leeds)
- 88 MVP points
- 622 runs and 59 wickets
- Leading spinner with 245.55 bowling points
- High score of 111
Ethan Bamber (Warwickshire)
- 95 MVP points
- 03 bowling points, second highest overall
- Won County Championship with Warwickshire
- Leading wicket-taker in County Championship (69)
Kyle Abbott (Hampshire)
- 84 MVP points
- 87 bowling points, third highest overall
- Averaged 16.15 in County Championship
- Second most wickets in County Championship (64)
View the final Men’s Domestic Overall MVP Rankings here.
