Trescothick and Patel on top

Marcus Trescothick hit 163 against Durham in the championship - his fourth hundred, in addition to five half-centuries, in 10 innings

Marcus Trescothick and Samit Patel lead the FTI MVP after both enjoying stellar games in the latest round of LV= County Championship matches.

Trescothick, who remains well clear at the top of the rankings, racked up another 39 points by scoring 163 against Durham at Taunton - his fourth hundred, in addition to five fifties, in 10 innings.

He made just 25 in the second innings to end his extraordinary sequence of scores, but a Somerset victory over the Division One leaders has blown the title race wide open.

Trescothick is far and away the top run-scorer of this year's campaign - he leads by over 500 runs - with 2,025 across all forms, 1,398 of which have come in the championship - where he is also ranked first. He has contributed more than 26% of Somerset's total championship runs, which have come at a healthy rate of 70 per 100 balls.

Patel, in second, has scored 1,087 runs, nearly 1,000 fewer than Trescothick, but has complemented his batting with the small matter of 44 wickets across all forms, including 11 in last week's championship match against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl. Patel returned career-best figures of 7-68 in the Hampshire second innings, taking his championship tally to 31.

He is ranked second in the LV=CC FTI MVP, 32nd in the FLt20 FTI MVP plus 25th in the CB40 FTI MVP and, of course, has forced himself back into the international one-day fold through a combination of performance and improved fitness.

Like Trescothick, who won the overall MVP in 2009, Patel has great FTI MVP pedigree, finishing fifth last year, seventh in 2009, and second behind Martin van Jaarsveld in 2008.

Meanwhile, in the CB40 FTI MVP, Scotland all-rounder Preston Mommsen has leapfrogged some big county names to head the rankings.

Mommsen has been a model of consistency with the bat, making eight scores of 24 or better in his nine innings, including two fifties, racking up a total of 327 runs at an impressive strike-rate of 111 runs per 100 balls.

His best was 81 off 72 balls in a losing cause against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road, his other fifty coming versus Durham.

He has helped Scotland achieve back-to-back wins in the reverse fixture against the Steelbacks and versus Warwickshire when he took 2-11 from three overs to help stall the Bears’ run-chase.