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The Professional Cricketers’ Association have unveiled a new system for ranking players based on their domestic performances this summer.

The rankings will reward every run scored, wicket taken and catch held, as well as giving credit for captaincy and to winning teams.

The PCA believe the rankings will identify the season’s most valuable player and will provide a more reliable marker of an individual’s performance.

PCA group chief executive Richard Bevan said: “We found that [performance statistics] were too focused on individual components of the games like averages and run rates. As a result, they didn’t take into account a player’s total contribution to their team, or whether the team actually won.”

Leicestershire will stage the final of the ICC Inter-Continental Cup between Ireland and Canada at Grace Road from May 22-25. Ireland will defend the title they won in 2005 in the first-class competition for emerging nations.

Warwickshire are giving trials to Vaughn van Jaarsveld with a view to signing the talented South African left-handed batsman as a Kolpak player for next season.

Van Jaarsveld, 22, will make his Warwickshire debut in today’s Second XI Championship match against Surrey at Cheam.

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