THORNBURY’S Chris Dent, together with Gloucestershire colleagues Jack Taylor and Liam Norwell made the Professional Cricketers’ Association Most Valuable Player rankings after just three rounds of the Specsavers County Championship this season.

Dent is currently the leading run scorer in the country with 407 runs at an average of over a hundred. His outstanding form has seen him score centuries in consecutive matches which came with 180 against Derbyshire and 138 not out in last week’s clash at home to Worcestershire.

And with the final County Championship Division Two clash before the T20 Blast competition gets underway next week, when Gloucestershire travel to meet Kent at Canterbury, there is every opportunity for Dent to increase his scoring rate further.

All rounder Taylor is in ninth place on the MVP list, with Dent in 11th and Norwell one below in 12th.

Taylor has been in good nick with bat and ball and made his second First Class hundred – 105 from just 103 balls – in this week’s draw with Worcestershire at The Brightside Ground, Bristol.

Like his team mates, Norwell has also recorded a century this season – although his may have been slightly less predictable.

Coming in as a nightwatchman against Derbyshire last week he scored 102 – his first hundred at any level of the game. He followed up by taking six wickets in the match against Worcestershire, including three in the top four in the second innings. Only two bowlers have taken more wickets than him in Division 2 in 2016.

The PCA MVP, which was introduced in 2007, is designed by the players to find the cricketers who really win matches by combining all aspects of a player’s performance to give a ranking in relation to his peers.