Trescothick close to FTI MVP award

Somerset captain Marcus Trescothick is the favourite to land the FTI MVP prize as he leads Kent all-rounder Darren Stevens by 56 points

In the FTI MVP it will take a Herculean effort for someone to overhaul Marcus Trescothick, who leads Darren Stevens by 56 points and whose injured ankle might just recover enough for him to take one last bow in 2011 in the Clydesdale Bank 40 final at Lord's.

Warwickshire, who lead the LV= County Championship by three points, have all-rounders Rikki Clarke and Chris Woakes to the fore in both the overall FTI MVP and the LV=CC FTI MVP.

Clarke has taken 45 wickets in Division One this summer and came to the party with the bat last week against Nottinghamshire, scoring a quickfire 126 off just 101 balls as the 2004 champions defeated last year's winners by an innings.

Woakes took four wickets in Notts' first innings and the league leaders will take great heart from the fact that their top all-rounder has an extraordinary record against Hampshire, this week's last round opponents.

Last month he took 7-20 and 3-103 against them at Edgbaston, as well as scoring 64 and 23. Last year he scored 136 not out at Edgbaston and took 5-34 at the Rose Bowl.

Woakes is up to seventh in the overall FTI MVP - one place higher than Clarke - having scored 724 runs and taken 75 wickets, 517 and 55 of which have come in the championship. The bowling all-rounder leads the LV=CC ‘game average' with an extraordinary 34 points per game.

Lancashire left-arm spinner Simon Kerrigan is second with 33 points per game having recorded two extraordinary analyses of 5-7 against Warwickshire and last week's career best 9-51 in the Red Rose's last gasp win over Hampshire at Liverpool, which has kept the championship race in the balance.

David Masters of Essex can hang his bowling boots up for another year and enjoy a well earned rest having bowled 636.4 championship overs, of which 169 were maidens and taken a whopping 93 wickets. He leads the wickets charts with 106 scalps; no-one has got close to Trescothick's 2503 runs.

Alex Hales' 72 and 106 not out - an innings at Edgbaston in which he carried his bat - deserve a mention as he has leapfrogged Tom Maynard as the leading under 23 run-scorer.

Hales has 1,783 across all forms, 28 more than Maynard's 1,755. Both have one championship match left but Maynard will have another opportunity to bat in the CB40 final.