Liam Livingstone - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5

1. Liam Livingstone - 221 - The Lancashire man is ploughing the franchise furrow very well this winter, taking in his second franchise tournament of (I believe) four he will play before next Summer. This marks his first ever Cricketer of the Week.

2. Nat Sciver-Brunt - 212- Is proving the lynchpin to Hobart's very successful WBBL. Could have got even more if it were not for Friday's wash out against Adelaide.

3. Suryakumar Yadav - 163 - A decent score for SKY this week but he might have hoped for more seeming as he played three matches against quite mixed bowling attacks in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

4. Phil Salt - 149 - 256 runs across the competition has really helped Phil Salt's figures this year.....just as it did last time out. He moves into 6th place overall.

5. Pathum Nissanka - 142 - A disappointing score in the final of the T20 tri-series against Pakistan was soon dispelled with a match winning knock of 81 for the Gulf in his first game of the ILT20.

Overall Top 5

1. Sam Curran - 4303 - Not the most electric return to action for our top player as he bagged 37 points in his first game of the ILT20. He needs a performance soon as the gap is now less than 100 between him and second.

2. Nat Sciver-Brunt - 4219 - Zoning in on top spot but you feel like there might not be enough games for her left this year to claim that place in 26 days.

3. Ravindra Jadeja - 3926 - After spending 6 weeks in 5th, he has decided to skip 4th entirely and instead launch himself into the Top 3 courtesy of two OK performances against South Africa.

4. Jos Buttler- 3912 - Not much to report except inactive and down to 4th.

5. Liam Dawson - 3887 - A disappointing Abu Dhabi T10 has merged into a similarly insipid start to the ILT20 for Dawson......however he keeps on turning out. No player has featured more in 2025.

Other Movers

In one of those weird quirks, just 45 runs sees Athapaththu move up 3 places; over-taking the inactive Jamie Smith and Heinrich Klaasen and joining fellow Sri Lankan Hasaranga on 2462.

Top 3 Averages

1. Sam Curran - 143.43 (Down from 147.1)
2. Ravindra Jadeja = 140.3 (Down from 141.11)
3. Annabel Sutherland - 138.4 (Up from 138.38)

For the second week in a row Athapaththu leaks the most points. She has now shaved 12.61 off her average over the last two weeks and currently has 129.63 per week.Liam Livingstone is up the most - +5.53 to 91.92.

Top Players By Format

* = New Name

Red Ball -Ravindra Jadeja= 2529
One Day - Nat Sciver Brunt = 1484
Short Form - *Nicholas Pooran = 3432

Top Players by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - * Nat Sciver-Brunt = 1989
Batting Bonus - Nat Sciver-Brunt = 430
Strike Rate – Jos Buttler = 960

Wickets - Liam Dawson - 1620
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja = 200
Economy - Ravindra Jadeja = 740

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 600
Fielding Bonus - Jos Buttler & Phil Salt – 40

Weekly List In Full

Liam Livingstone 221
Nat Sciver-Brunt 212
Suryakumar Yadav 163
Phil Salt 149
Pathum Nissanka 142
Annabel Sutherland 139
Nicholas Pooran 135
Ravindra Jadeja 116
Babar Azam 97
Saim Ayub 96
Yashasvi Jaiwal 50
Chamari Athapaththu 45
Liam Dawson 40
Sam Curran 37
Wanindu Hasaranga 25
Kane Williamson 20

Adam Zampa dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Travis Head dnp
Heinrich Klaasen dnp
Jasprit Bumrah dnp
Harry Brook dnp
Jamie Smith dnp
Rishabh Pant dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Sam Curran 4303
2 Nat Sciver-Brunt 4219
3 Ravindra Jadeja 3926
4 Jos Buttler 3912
5 Liam Dawson 3887
6 Phil Salt 3469
7 Annabel Sutherland 3460
8 Nicholas Pooran 3432
9 Pathum Nissanka 2837
10 Harry Brook 2830
11 Yashasvi Jaiwal 2817
12 Saim Ayub 2788
13 Kane Williamson 2586
14 Wanindu Hasaranga 2463
14 Chamari Athapaththu 2463
16 Heinrich Klaasen 2434
17 Jamie Smith 2433
18 Liam Livingstone 2298
19 Travis Head 2231
20 Suryakumar Yadav 2209
21 Babar Azam 2148
22 Jasprit Bumrah 1958
23 Rishabh Pant 1852
24 Adam Zampa 1558

Ravindra Jadeja - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Only Williamson, Zampa, Curran and Buttler not in action this week as we see our second highest week of point scoring of 2025.

Weekly Top 5

1. Ravindra Jadeja - 280 - For the second week in a row an Indian player graces the top of the List despite their humbling defeat to South Africa. More points with the ball than the bat this week for Jadeja.

2. Phil Salt - 252 - Might denigrate Phil Salt's achievements in the Abu Dhabi T20 but across his 5 games this week he has scored above 30 in three of them and scored at a Strike Rate above 200 runs a ball. That's not nothing.

3. Travis Head- 204 -His match winning knock against a very poor England team feels like it was worth at least double his 204 points this week.....but rules are rules and here he sits. He didn't even move off 18th place overall.

4. Babar Azam - 180 - Three innings for Pakistan this week; two bad ones (16 & 0) and one very good one (74). 4th places seems about right for that. Moves up a place to 20th as a reward too.

5. Pathum Nissanka - 173 - Was a whisker away from his second T20I century but was not to be. Backed it up with two underwhelming performances with the bat in 2 matches against Pakistan to squeak into 5th.

Overall Top 5

1. Sam Curran - 4266 - Inactive for a third week. His cushion in first place snow 259 points.

2. Nat Sciver-Brunt - 4007 - Has been chipping away at the top 3 since the start of the World Cup and finally overhauls 2nd place despite an unassuming 119 this week,

3. Jos Buttler - 3912 - Inactive and MIGHT just be inactive for the rest of the year. Might he finish the year outside the Top 5.

4. Liam Dawson - 3847 - 50 points this week saw him only just hold on to 4th spot. It has been 26 weeks since Dawson was outside the Top 4.

5. Ravindra Jadeja - 3810 - The highest score of the week only moved Jadeja away from 6th place by a dramatic margin. The 489 points between him and Sutherland is the largest gap on the List.

Ones To Watch

There are two pairs pf Cricketers all within one point of each other who will be playing this week. Firstly Delhi's Phil Salt will look to reel in Melbourne's Annabel Sutherland in 6th. Meanwhile Titans' Heinrich Klaasen will want to hold off England's Jamie Smith to hold 15th.

Other Movers

Klaasen moves up two places into 15th whilst Hasaranga edges into 14th.

Top 3 Averages

1. Sam Curran - 147.1
2. Ravindra Jadeja = 141.11 (Up from 135.77)
3. Annabel Sutherland - 138.38 (Down from 143.13)

Jadeja skips past third place to become the second highest player in terms of average. Athapaththu drops out of thetop three after leaking 7.91 thanks to a shortened WBBL game.

Top Players By Format

Red Ball -Ravindra Jadeja= 2529
One Day - Nat Sciver Brunt = 1484
Short Form - Sam Curran = 3349

Top Players by Discipline

* = New Name

Runs - Jos Buttler = 1914
Batting Bonus -Nat Sciver-Brunt = 410
Strike Rate – Jos Buttler = 960

Wickets - Liam Dawson - 1580
Wicket Bonus - *Ravindra Jadeja = 200
Economy - *Ravindra Jadeja = 730

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 600
Fielding Bonus - Jos Buttler & Phil Salt – 40

Weekly List In Full

Ravindra Jadeja 280
Phil Salt 252
Travis Head 204
Babar Azam 180
Pathum Nissanka 173
Suryakumar Yadav 162
Yashasvi Jaiwal 131
Saim Ayub 130
Heinrich Klaasen 128
Nicholas Pooran 121
Nat Sciver-Brunt 119
Liam Livingstone 107
Jasprit Bumrah 106
Harry Brook 102
Annabel Sutherland 98
Jamie Smith 98
Wanindu Hasaranga 91
Rishabh Pant 60
Liam Dawson 50
Chamari Athapaththu 0

Kane Williamson dnp
Adam Zampa dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Jos Buttler dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Sam Curran 4266
2 Nat Sciver-Brunt 4007
3 Jos Buttler 3912
4 Liam Dawson 3847
5 Ravindra Jadeja 3810
6 Annabel Sutherland 3321
7 Phil Salt 3320
8 Nicholas Pooran 3297
9 Harry Brook 2830
10 Yashasvi Jaiwal 2767
11 Pathum Nissanka 2695
12 Saim Ayub 2692
13 Kane Williamson 2566
14 Wanindu Hasaranga 2438
15 Heinrich Klaasen 2434
16 Jamie Smith 2433
17 Chamari Athapaththu 2418
18 Travis Head 2231
19 Liam Livingstone 2077
20 Babar Azam 2051
21 Suryakumar Yadav 2046
22 Jasprit Bumrah 1958
23 Rishabh Pant 1852
24 Adam Zampa 1558

Jasprit Bumrah - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

After some lean weeks all bur 6 of our players featured this week with 1920 shared between them.

Weekly Top 5

1. Jasprit Bumrah -211- Surprising to say but Bumrah has been something of a disappointment this year. And I don't think we can just blame injury. 211 is his highest score of the year and it sees him rise to 22nd Overall.

2.Ravindra Jadeja - 205 - A complimentary performance with both bat and ball for Jadeja....he did not scare massively with both but when you put them together it is enough for him to get second.

3. Babar Azam - 196 - Finished in the Top 5 last week and now the Top Three this. Dare we dream of a resurgence. The 2020 winner of Cricketer of the Year moves up to 4th from bottom with this week's performance.

4. Wanindu Hasaranga - 185 - Last week's 189 was his best score of the year and he follows it up with only 4 fewer this week. Really is enjoying his time in Pakistan...even if he did lose his contract with Rajasthan this week.

5. Saim Ayub - 145 - Another deceptive week for Ayub. 145 is decent. Fifth place is decent....but this is from three games....for that it seems a little underbaked.

Overall update

Despite 3 of our Top 5 being in action this week, our Top 5 remains unchanged as:

1 Sam Curran 4266
2 Jos Buttler 3912
3 Nat Sciver-Brunt 3888
4 Liam Dawson 3797
5 Ravindra Jadeja 3530

264 points were split (incredibly unevenly) between 3rd, 4th and 5th ....but those gaps are still pretty notable.

Ones to Watch

Big question of the week is whether Ayub can use the Pakistan/Sri Lanka/Zimbabwe tri series to propel himself into the top 10. He is 4 points off 11th, 74 off 10th and 166 off 9th. All eminently possible.

Other Movers

Livingstone posts 141 this week in the Abu Dhabi T10 to see him move up a place to 19th.

Top 3 Averages

1. Sam Curran - 147.1
2.Chamari Athapaththu - 142.24 (Down from 147.81)
3. Annabel Sutherland - 143.13 (Down from 141)

Jasprit Bumrah is the biggest beneficiary this week - up to 92.6 - an improvement of 6.23. Athapaththu moves down the most but still has the second highest overall.

Top Players By Format

Red Ball -Ravindra Jadeja= 2249
One Day - Nat Sciver Brunt = 1484
Short Form - Sam Curran = 3349

Top Players by Discipline

Runs - Jos Buttler = 1914
Batting Bonus -Nat Sciver-Brunt = 410
Strike Rate – Jos Buttler = 960

Wickets - Liam Dawson - 1580
Wicket Bonus - Annabel Sutherland = 190
Economy - Liam Dawson = 710

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 600
Fielding Bonus - Jos Buttler & Phil Salt – 40

Weekly List In Full

Jasprit Bumrah 211
Ravindra Jadeja 205
Babar Azam 196
Wanindu Hasaranga 185
Saim Ayub 145
Liam Livingstone 141
Phil Salt 125
Heinrich Klaasen 123
Annabel Sutherland 121
Jamie Smith 102
Nicholas Pooran 84
Rishabh Pant 69
Pathum Nissanka 58
Chamari Athapaththu 53
Liam Dawson 35
Harry Brook 31
Nat Sciver-Brunt 24
Yashasvi Jaiwal 12

Kane Williamson dnp
Suryakumar Yadav dnp
Adam Zampa dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Travis Head dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Sam Curran 4266
2 Jos Buttler 3912
3 Nat Sciver-Brunt 3888
4 Liam Dawson 3797
5 Ravindra Jadeja 3530
6 Annabel Sutherland 3223
7 Nicholas Pooran 3176
8 Phil Salt 3068
9 Harry Brook 2728
10 Yashasvi Jaiwal 2636
11 Kane Williamson 2566
12 Saim Ayub 2562
13 Pathum Nissanka 2522
14 Chamari Athapaththu 2418
15 Wanindu Hasaranga 2347
16 Jamie Smith 2335
17 Heinrich Klaasen 2306
18 Travis Head 2027
19 Liam Livingstone 1970
20 Suryakumar Yadav 1884
21 Babar Azam 1871
22 Jasprit Bumrah 1852
23 Rishabh Pant 1792
24 Adam Zampa 1558