Root and Moeen in shoot-out for MVP

Joe Root and long-time MVP leader Moeen Ali will head into England’s Test in Barbados knowing their respective individual performances there will determine the winter MVP title.

Root leads the Test and overall winter rankings after another stellar batting display in Grenada.

The Yorkshireman caressed 182 not out in England's first innings, to add to back-to-back half-centuries made in the first Test in Antigua which has made him England’s stand-out batsman of the tour with 342 runs.

Root’s strike rate of 73 runs per 100 balls across the two matches should not be underestimated especially given how late in the day England won the second Test.

Root was England’s leading run-scorer in the winter one-day internationals, too, with 671 runs including two hundreds against Sri Lanka, three fifties and four other scores in excess of 36.

Root will head to Barbados on 232 MVP Ranking points 25 points clear of Moeen.

Moeen won the ODI MVP and enjoyed a 43-point lead in the overall race at the end of the World Cup.

However his absence from the first Test, combined with Root’s performances, have seen a dramatic swing which leaves the Worcestershire all-rounder with it all to do with one Test remaining.

He returned figures of 1-47 and 3-51 in Grenada but was run out for nought, taking just 10 points from the match after a successful winter of one-day cricket which saw him rack up 547 runs and take 20 wickets.

Winter MVP rankings