Michael Bracewell - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Overall Top 5

1. Michael Bracewell - 309 - Bit of a cheat this week as I cannot remember somebody playing quite as much cricket in seven days as Bracewell. His pair of ODIs for New Zealand and then two games for Lahore in the Global Super League gives him his second Cricketer of the Week.

2. Sam Curran - 260 - Continuing his fine Summer, as he always does with 120 wicket points and 60 runs across two games in two formats. Lots more to come for him over the next month or two.

3. Nicholas Pooran - 158 - Finding his form again and finishes in the Top 5 for the second week on the bounce. Moves up to 15th overall- his highest position in 6 months. He was in bottom place just 4 weeks ago.

4. Liam Dawson - 124 - Perhaps a surprise to see him in the Top 5 this week but the fact he played three games sees him scrape together enough points for a fourth place berth.

5.Rachin Ravindra - 121 - Two games in two different continents this week as he finished his MLC season with a loss to Los Angeles before starting his Hundred season with a win against the South.

Overall Top 5

1.Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 3257 - After a sobering debut series against England, Vaibhav made hay in the Zimbabwean sunshine as he got a half century in the first T20.

2. Simon Harmer - 2750 - Inactive this week - and will be until the County Championship kicks off again in about a month. How far will he descent in that time?

3. Jos Buttler - 2610 - A fantastically speedy 41 in the final ODI against India was followed by a pretty pedestrian opening match for Manchester in The Hundred. Holds third for a third week.

4. Shubman Giill - 2384 - Finished the ODI series with yet another half century. Not quite enough to see him improve on his fourth place position which he has now held for three weeks.

5.Sam Curran - 2344 - Takes advantage of his England teammate Harry Brook's poor week to nip into the Top 5. Curran has not been in the top 5 for 13 weeks but he loves The Hundred and could score some big points in coming weeks.

Ones to Watch

There's a real resurgence in the bottom third of the table - thiis can be seen most when we see Ecclestone, Bracewell and Salt all split by 59 points in 18th, 19th and 20th.

Highest Weekly Average

1. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi = 171.42 (Down from 174.28)
2. Simon Harmer = 144.74
3. Nat Sciver-Brunt = 138

Bracewell's average improves by 19.66 (having also swelled by 13.37 the week before. Harry Brook drops out of the Top 3 having lost 6.94 from his average.

Highest Average Points per Game

Red Ball- Mehidy Hasan Miraz = 208.5
One Day - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi = 105.81
Short Form - Nat Sciver-Brunt = 93.69

Highest Points by Format

Red Ball- Simon Harmer = 1988
One Day - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 1693
Short Form - Jos Buttler = 2355

Highest Points by Discipline

Runs - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 1817
Batting Bonus - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi- 340
Strike Rate - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi- 910

Wickets - Simon Harmer = 980
Wicket Bonus = Simon Harmer = 170
Economy - Simon Harmer= 580

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 580
Fielding Bonus - Jos Buttler = 60

Weekly List in Full

Michael Bracewell 309
Sam Curran 260
Nicholas Pooran 158
Liam Dawson 124
Rachin Ravindra 121
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 120
Shubman Gill 107
Jos Buttler 97
Phil Salt 77
Mehidy Hasan Miraz 69
Sophie Ecclestone 60
Marco Jansen 60
Harry Brook 32
Aiden Markram 1

Saim Ayub dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Travis Head dnp
Pathum Nissanka dnp
Paul Walter dnp
Quinton de Kock dnp
Simon Harmer dnp
Nat Sciver-Brunt dnp

Overall List in Full

1 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 3257
2 Simon Harmer 2750
3 Jos Buttler 2610
4 Shubman Gill 2384
5 Sam Curran 2344
6 Harry Brook 2179
7 Quinton de Kock 1940
8 Liam Dawson 1885
9 Rachin Ravindra 1818
10 Mehidy Hasan Miraz 1730
11 Aiden Markram 1691
12 Saim Ayub 1591
13 Marco Jansen 1561
14 Pathum Nissanka 1520
15 Nicholas Pooran 1478
16 Nat Sciver-Brunt 1380
17 Travis Head 1323
18 Sophie Ecclestone 1289
19 Michael Bracewell 1236
20 Phil Salt 1230
21 Paul Walter 1223
22 Ravindra Jadeja 1190

Rachin Ravindra - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Extraordinary week of scoring ; just short of 3000 points on t he board with three cricketers getting their highest score of the year.

Weekly Top 5

1.Rachin Ravindra- 468 - The headline figure is that Rachin has scored the 7th highest score in the 8 year history of this List. He matched just under half his total of T20 points scored in the last 18 games this year in just 4 this week and moves up from 16th to 9th.

2. Sophie Ecclestone - 351 - Imagine what her numbers would be like if she got to play more than a single red ball game every year and a half. Comfortably broken her record point score of 2026 and up to 18th overall.

3. Nicholas Pooran - 338 - Increased his total T20 points scored to date by 34% this week with 208 runs in 3 games in Major League Cricket. Is one of only 4 players to score more than 700 points in the last month. Working his way into form or taking advantage of poor bowling?

4. Jos Buttler - 313 - Put his critics to one side briefly with a huge 131in the final T20 against England....then bolstered it with another 50 fielding points in the two ODIs.

5. Sam Curran - 216 - Really hitting the straps with his bowling again and getting those allrounder points. When he doesn't hit with the bat he makes up for it with ball - he bagged 160 points with that discipline this week.

Overall Top 5

1. Vaibhav Sooryavabshi - 3137 - Seems to have been folded into the white ball squad a bit now and hard to see where his next cricket is coming from, Lead of 387 on second.

2. Simon Harmer- 2750 - Only 87 points from 3 T20 Blast games for Harmer as his side failed to do what needed to be done to progress to Finals Day. Holds second.

3. Jos Buttler - 2513 - Is very well insulated in third still; 237 up to second, 326v down to third. Very aesthetically pleasing if nothing else.

4. Shubman Gill - 2277 - A sign of how high scoring this week has been is that Gill's score of 171 sees him finish 8th for the week. Holds fourth overall.

5. Harry Brook - 2147 - Real civil war going on between Brook and Curran for 5th. Brook scored 192 this week but Curran scored 216 meaning that the gap is now just 63.

Highest Weekly Average

1. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi = 174
2. Simon Harmer = 144.74 (Down from 147.94)
3. Harry Brook = 143.13 (Up from 139.64)

Ravindra'sscary weeks sees a huge bump to his average - up 24.13 to 106.06. NSB leaks 9.2 and drops out of the Top 3.

Highest Average Points per Game

Red Ball- Mehidy Hasan Miraz = 208.5
One Day - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi = 105.81
Short Form - Nat Sciver-Brunt = 93.69

Highest Points by Format

Red Ball- Simon Harmer = 1988
One Day - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 1693
Short Form - Jos Buttler = 2339

Highest Points by Discipline

Runs - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 1767
Batting Bonus - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi- 320
Strike Rate - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi- 870

Wickets - Simon Harmer = 980
Wicket Bonus = Simon Harmer = 170
Economy - Simon Harmer= 580

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 580
Fielding Bonus - Jos Buttler = 60

Weekly Scores In Full

Rachin Ravindra 468
Sophie Ecclestone 351
Nicholas Pooran 338
Jos Buttler 313
Sam Curran 216
Michael Bracewell 213
Harry Brook 192
Shubman Gill 171
Paul Walter 153
Liam Dawson 124
Quinton de Kock 113
Simon Harmer 87
Phil Salt 78
Nat Sciver-Brunt 55
Mehidy Hasan Miraz 30
Marco Jansen 27

Saim Ayub dnp
Aiden Markram dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Travis Head dnp
Pathum Nissanka dnp
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi dnp

Overall Scores In Full

1 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 3137
2 Simon Harmer 2750
3 Jos Buttler 2513
4 Shubman Gill 2277
5 Harry Brook 2147
6 Sam Curran 2084
7 Quinton de Kock 1940
8 Liam Dawson 1761
9 Rachin Ravindra 1697
10 Aiden Markram 1690
11 Mehidy Hasan Miraz 1661
12 Saim Ayub 1591
13 Pathum Nissanka 1520
14 Marco Jansen 1501
15 Nat Sciver-Brunt 1380
16 Travis Head 1323
17 Nicholas Pooran 1320
18 Sophie Ecclestone 1229
19 Paul Walter 1223
20 Ravindra Jadeja 1190
21 Phil Salt 1153
22 Michael Bracewell 927

Simon Harmer - The Best Cricketer of the Week

 

Weekly Top 5

1. Simon Harmer - 352 - Last week I criticised his T20 form....he shot back at that with a frankly flawless spell of low economical bowling and a frankly startling heavy hitting couple of innings this week. He is now one Cricketer of the Week away from his half century.

2. Harry Brook - 234 - Back to the short form and everyone loves Harry again. Some spectacularly big hitting this week to put India to the sword in emphatic fashion.

3. Phil Salt - 189 - Has been beset by poor form and injury this year....but didn't seem like it this week with 129 runs against India in three T20s (one of which he got a duck in....unsure whether that makes it more or less impressive.)

4. Sam Curran - 188 - A fantastic return to bowling for Sam as he bags 80 wicket points this week plus his 48 runs. Always piles on the points in the English Summer and does son again in 2026.

5. Mehidy Hasan Miraz - 187 - Has blagged his way into the Top 5 this week despite his team suffering two ODI losses against Zimbabwe. Only 3 wickets but 60 Economy points and a cameo with the bat boosts him up.

Overall Top 5

1. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 3137 - The 15 year old has had the first big setback of his career with his debut for the full India side. And, at the same time, his lead in first drops to below 500 for the first time in months.

2. Simon Harmer - 2663 - His big win this week sees him move dramatically away from 3rd place and dramatically towards first. 474 points separate him from first and 464 from third.

3. Jos Buttler- 2200 - Couple of emphatic wins against India in a T20 series and you assume that Buttler has tucked in...that was not the case this week. Instead he has moved up to third purely on fielding points, of which he got 100 this week.

4. Shubman Gill -2106 - Inactive this week and back down to fourth.

5. Harry Brook - 1955 - Back into the Top 5 having scored 100_ points in three weeks on the bounce. De Kock, last week's holder of fifth, has been knocked down to 7th with Curran in 6th.

Highest Weekly Average

1. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi = 174 (Down from 180,88)
2. Simon Harmer = 147.94 (Up from 135.95)
3. Nat Sciver-Brunt = 147.22 (Down from 153.38)

Biggest winner and loser in terms of average are our current first and second; with Vaibhav losing 6.6 off his average and Harmer gaining exactly 12.

Highest Average Points per Game

Red Ball- Mehidy Hasan Miraz = 208.5
One Day - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi = 105.81
Short Form - Nat Sciver-Brunt = 93.69

Highest Points by Format

Red Ball- Simon Harmer = 1988
One Day - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 1693
Short Form - Jos Buttler = 2098

Highest Points by Discipline



Runs - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - 1767
Batting Bonus - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi- 320
Strike Rate - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi- 870

Wickets - Simon Harmer = 920
Wicket Bonus = Simon Harmer = 170
Economy - Simon Harmer= 570

Fielding - Jos Buttler = 510
Fielding Bonus - Jos Buttler = 30

Weekly List In Full

Simon Harmer 352
Harry Brook 234
Phil Salt 189
Sam Curran 188
Mehidy Hasan Miraz 187
Jos Buttler 174
Nat Sciver-Brunt 98
Nicholas Pooran 85
Quinton de Kock 66
Paul Walter 64
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 62
Liam Dawson 30
Sophie Ecclestone 20
Rachin Ravindra 4

Saim Ayub dnp
Michael Bracewell dnp
Aiden Markram dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Travis Head dnp
Shubman Gill dnp
Marco Jansen dnp
Pathum Nissanka dnp

Overall List In Full

1 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 3137
2 Simon Harmer 2663
3 Jos Buttler 2200
4 Shubman Gill 2106
5 Harry Brook 1955
6 Sam Curran 1868
7 Quinton de Kock 1827
8 Aiden Markram 1690
9 Liam Dawson 1637
10 Mehidy Hasan Miraz 1631
11 Saim Ayub 1591
12 Pathum Nissanka 1520
13 Marco Jansen 1474
14 Nat Sciver-Brunt 1325
15 Travis Head 1323
16 Rachin Ravindra 1229
17 Ravindra Jadeja 1190
18 Phil Salt 1075
19 Paul Walter 1073
20 Nicholas Pooran 982
21 Sophie Ecclestone 878
22 Michael Bracewell 690